About the Lab

The Scalable Autonomous Systems (SAS) Lab is an interdisciplinary lab focusing on fundamental research in robotics with a focus on control and coordination of many robot systems. The lab is located in the basement of the Hess building on 34th St. and Lancaster Ave and is part of Drexel University's Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department and . The lab is under the direction of Prof. M. Ani Hsieh and laboratory members consist of students from all undergraduate and graduate levels with students coming from the Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science departments.

News & Announcements

  • Three robot team tracking coherent structures in flows. We developed a tracking strategy that allows teams of robots to track coherent structures in flows using only local measurements. The work will be presented at ICRA 2012 in Minneapolis in May!
  • New RSS 2011 Videos! 12 robots dynamically distributing across 3 sites. We developed an ensemble modeling and controller synthesis framework to enable ensembl design of agent-level control policies. L: No Ensemble Feedback. R: W/ Ensemble Feedback
  • Two mobile manipulators assembling a 3-D structure. We developed a planning algorithm that partitions the assembly task into N subcomponents that can be executed by individual robots with minimal communication with other robots.