Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Lab
The UAV Lab at University of Minnesota's Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics develops and supports a world-class, low-cost, open-source avionics platform. The lab conducts flight research on navigation, guidance, and flight control systems for small UAVs and commercial aircraft.
Notable achievements
Open-source avionics platform for UAV research
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Robotic inspection of vertical surfaces in GNSS-denied environments
Arianna Rana, Antonio Petitti, Annalisa Milella
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Fisher-Preserving Guidance: Training-Free Manifold Constraints for Safe Diffusion Control
Hao Ren, Zetong Bi, Yiming Zeng +5 more
2026
A Modular Vision-Language-Action Robotics Framework for Indoor Environments
Anindya Jana, Snehasis Banerjee, Arup Sadhu +1 more
2026
BEML-sonar: a bio-inspired echolocation and machine learning-enhanced SONAR for underwater object detection and navigation.
Reddy CKK, Kaza VS, Anisha PR +3 more
Scientific reports · 2026
Regularized Reward-Punishment Reinforcement Learning
Jiexin Wang, Eiji Uchibe
2026
A Novel Near-Infrared Fluorescence Vaginal Pipe (LunaPipe™) for Navigation in Robot-Assisted Total Hysterectomy.
Kisu I, Takada K, Takagi J +2 more
Journal of minimally invasive gynecology · 2026