Conference Papers accepted:

• "Adaptive Input Shaper Design for Unknown Second-Order Systems with Real-Time Parameter Estimation", accepted at 2026 IEEE American Control Conference (ACC).

• "Input Shaping for Point-to-Point Motion with a Continuum Robot Arm", accepted at 2026 IEEE American Control Conference (ACC).

• "Polynomial Chaos-based Input Shaper Design under Time-Varying Uncertainty", accepted at 2026 IEEE American Control Conference (ACC).

• "Differential Flatness Based Path Planning Around Obstacles of a 2D Gantry Crane", accepted at 2026 IEEE American Control Conference (ACC).

Awards:

• LaSPACE Guided Pathways in STEM (GPS) Scholarship for Yousuf Atteia

• LaSPACE Guided Pathways in STEM (GPS) Scholarship for Darren Johnson

• NSF EPSCoR LINK Award for Karan Baker which funds him an 8-week internship at the NASA Langley Research Center for Precision Motion Control on the LSMS Crane

• Travel Fund for ACC 2026 for Karan Baker

• Travel Fund for ACC 2026 for Nyi Nyi Aung

• Lab participates in LSU Gulf Scholars Program in Summer 2026 for the project "Development of an Autonomous UAV System for Water Sample Collection"

• S & B Engineers and Constructors Scholarship (Spring 2026) for Darren Johnson

Journal Papers accepted:

• "Shapley Effects as a Global Sensitivity Metric for Robust Design and Control", accepted at Optimal Control Applications and Methods

Conference Papers accepted:

• "Object Identification Under Known Dynamics: A PIRNN Approach for UAV Classification", accepted at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (AMLA).

• "Robust Time-Delay Filter Design for Precision Motion Control with Nonzero Initial Conditions", accepted at 2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA).

• "Application-Oriented Co-Design of Motors and Motions for a 6DOF Robot Manipulator", accepted at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE).

• "Bayesian Uncertainty Modeling and Risk-Aware Optimization for Unknown Systems" from NASA and DNV Challenge on Optimization Under Uncertainty 2025 accepted at the  European Safety and Reliability (ESREL) and Society for Risk Analysis Europe (SRA-E ) conference (overall score: 7th out of 40 teams)

Awards:

• Dr. Stein is part of receiving the 2025-2026 Big Ideas in Conferences, Symposia & Seminars at LSU - Provost's Fund for Innovation in Research

• Dr. Stein receives the Longwell Teaching Award

• Travel Fund for CCTA 2025 for Karan Baker

• GSA Travel Award for CCTA 2025 for Karan Baker

• LaSPACE Graduate Student Research Assistance (GSRA) Award for Karan Baker

• LaSPACE Graduate Student Research Assistance (GSRA) Award for Sean Maki

• LaSPACE Undergraduate Research Assistantship (LURA) Award for Dutch Dunphy

• LaSPACE Undergraduate Research Assistantship (LURA) Award for Yousuf Atteia

• LaSPACE Undergraduate Research Assistantship (LURA) Award for Neil Muralles

• LaSPACE Undergraduate Research Assistantship (LURA) Award for Bradley Wight

• NSF EPSCoR/LaRegents Supervised Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) for Mark Mills

• NSF EPSCoR/LaRegents Supervised Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) for Carter Burdette

Lab participates in High School Summer Research (HSSR) Program at LSU

New undergraduate students Darren Johnson, Grant Gueho, Abigail Lawlor, James Sirois, Sang Nguyen, Tariq Hlayel, Alister Whitmore, Tri Nguyen, Peyton Ardoin, Elliott Lombardo, Peyton Bell, and Heepeom Shin onboarded in Fall 25

New undergraduate students Dutch Dunphy, Mark Mills, Carter Burdette, Neil Muralles, and Bradley Wight onboarded in Spring 25

New undergraduate student Yousuf Atteia onboarded

New PhD student Karan Baker onboarded

Dr. Adrian Stein joined the MIE Department at LSU as an Assistant Professor