🔬 University#44 Pasadena, CA, United States· Est. 2016
Caltech — Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST)
World leader in drone swarm research and agile aerial robots. Caltech's CAST has produced the most agile manually-sized drones and advanced multi-agent control algorithms.
aerial roboticsdrone swarmscontrol theoryautonomous systemsbio-inspired flight
Notable achievements
IROS best paper awards, agile drone racing, swarm control, provable safety algorithms, NASA Ingenuity helicopter technical contributions.
Notable work
Agile dronesSwarm controlSafe control theory
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
PERCEPTION
Embodied cognition-driven interpretable trajectory prediction of autonomous systems.
Wang X, Du Q, Wu Q +5 more
Nature communications · 2026
LEARNING
Open access
Stabilization Learning: A Paradigm Transition Bridging Control Theory and Machine Learning
Quan Quan
2026
OTHER
Open access
Sensing-Limited Control Under Non-Designable Observation Mechanisms
Ming Li, Fan Liu, Yifeng Xiong +2 more
2026
PERCEPTION
Open access
BitTP: The Lightweight Trajectory Prediction Model with BitLLM for Edge-Devices
Mincheol Kang, Hyunjin Lim, Bomin Kang +1 more
2026
OTHER
The Moon needs robots.
Murphy RR
Science robotics · 2026