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About CUSL The Cooperative Unmanned Systems Laboratory (CUSL) is a multi-disciplinary research group at the University of Kansas (KU) that focuses on the design, development, and testing of teams of unmanned systems for cooperative sensing and cooperative control missions. The research objectives of CUSL include Autonomous system development. Gust/wake sensing and wind soaring using UAVs. Design of cooperative sensing and estimation algorithms. Design of cooperative controllers. Networked cyber-physical systems.

News Congratulations to Jacksen Hugh Goyer, a CUSL undergraduate researcher, for being selected as the Sophomore of the Year in 2017 by the Aerospace Engineering Department of the University of Kansas, April, 2017. Our paper, "Flight-Test Evaluation of Navigation Information in Wide-Field Optical Flow", was accepted by AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (JAIS), Oct. 2016. We got a new NASA-KS-EPSCoR grant to work on "Autonomous Tornado Damage Track Mapping Using a Small UAS", Oct. 2016. Two conference papers were accepted by the 2017 AIAA GNC conference and the 2017 AIAA AFM conference, "Wake Encounter Simulation and Flight Validation with UAV Close Formation Flight", and "Flight Test Investigation of Stall/Spin Detection Techniques for a Flying Wing UAS", Aug. 2016. Congratulations to Harold Flanagan for his fist research paper after joining CUSL. Dr. Haiyang Chao was selected as a member for AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee in March, 2016. He will serve as the area co-chair of MAV Guidance, Navigation, and Control for the 2017 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference. Congratulations to Pengzhi Tian for his first conference paper as the lead author, “UAV Flight Test Evaluation of Fusion Algorithms for Estimation of Angle of Attack and Sideslip Angle”, to be presented at the 2016 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Aug. 2015. Conference paper “Wake Vortex Detection with UAV Close Formation Flight” presented at the AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics (AFM), June, 2015 Dr. Haiyang Chao visited NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) for one week sponsored by Kansas-NASA-EPSCoR Grant, Aug. 2015. Conference paper "Wind Field and Wake Estimation in UAV Formation Flight" presented at American Control Conference 2014, in Portland, Oregon, July 2014.