About CSNAP
Professor Won shows a demonstration to CSNAP students
Welcome to the Control, Sensor, Network and Perception (CSNAP) Laboratory. At the CSNAP laboratory, we investigate various topics in control and sensor networking theory with applications in aerospace and biomedical engineering. Currently, we are performing research in nonlinear statistical control theory, sensor networking, cooperative satellite control, and medical image registration. This laboratory is located in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
The laboratory is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the United States Air Force, and Temple University.
News & Events
June 10-13, 2008: 2008 American Control Conference
Drs. Won and Diersing presented two papers at the American Control Conference held in Seattle, WA, USA. For a brief conference report, see (Full Text: PDF)
April 21, 2008: Indoor Aerial Robot Competition
CSNAP and Spacecraft Systems Enigneering course students participated on 2008 Indoor Aerial Robot Competition hosted by Drexel University.
April 4, 2008: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Near-Earth Environments Seminar
CSNAP and the department of electrical and computer engineering will host a seminar by Dr. Paul Oh of Drexel University in Room 308 Engineering Building at 12:40pm-1:30pm. Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have demonstrated usefulness in tasks like search-and-rescue, exploration and mapping, weather monitoring and forest firefighting. More recently, UAVs are currently being designed to fly in near-Earth environments like forests, buildings, caves and tunnels. These are cluttered areas where there is no GPS and communications are degraded. As such, such UAVs demand sensor suites that can autonomously navigate the vehicle. This talk will showcase designs and demonstrations of such UAVs at the Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab in Philadelphia USA.
February 7-8, 2008: Air Force Research DeBriefing Meeting
CSNAP director will present the results from the Air Force project, "Dynamical Characteristics of Hierarchical Hybrid System for Multiple Satellite Control."
December 2007: Control and Decision Conference
Drs. Won and Diersing presented a paper at the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held in New Orleans, LA, USA.
November 2007: Invited Talk
CSNAP director will be giving an invited talk at Washington University in Saint Louis on November 15th. The title of the talk is "Micro-Navigation Sensor Network for Small Satellites."
October 2007: Workshop
CSNAP is sponsoring a workshop, Advances in Statistical Control, System Theory, and Engineering Education at Notre Dame, Indiana. Please follow the Workshop 2007 link on the left for more information.
August 2007: Dr. Diersing
A Csnapee, Dr. Ron Diersing, accepted an offer from the University of Southern Indiana as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Congratulations and good luck!
June 2007: 2007 CanSat Competition
Five undergraduate students competed in the 2007 National CanSat Competition, which was held in Amarillo, Texas. Here, we launched 400g pico-satellite with a model rocket into about 2500feet. We retrieved GPS data from the CanSat. Congratulations to the CanSat teams, OwlSat and NightOwl, for a successful competition!
May 2007: ASNE Intelligent Ships Symposium VII
A CSNAP researcher, Ron Diersing, presented a paper titled, "A flexible structure application for a cumulant generalization of H-infinity Control," at ASNE Intelligent Ships Symposium VII, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
April 2007: NSF ECCS Grantees Workshop
CSNAP Director, Chang-Hee Won, attended National Science Foundation Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Grantee's Workshop to Broaden Diversity Participation in Reno, Nevada.
February 23, 2007: Air Force Research Kickoff Meeting
CSNAP Researchers begin a new Air Force project, "Dynamical Characteristics of Hierarchical Hybrid System for Multiple Satellite Control."
February 22, 2007: CanSat Preliminary Design Review
Two CanSate teams, OwlSat and NightOwl, have successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review with their mentors in Orbital Corporation and NASA JPL.
December 14, 2006: Control and Decision Conference
Drs. Won and Diersing presented two papers at the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (45th CDC) held in Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Diego, CA, USA.
October 25, 2006: CanSat Competition
A senior design team led by Dr. Chang-Hee Won is going to be participating in the 2007 CanSat Competition. We will design, build, and test a small satellite in the shape of a 12oz soda can that will send altitude information to the base station.
September 29, 2006: Air Force Research Laboratory
CSNAP director is visiting Kirtland Air Force Base on 29 September 2006 to discuss with the researchers about the progress made over the summer in regards to cooperative satellite control project.
September 1, 2006: New Members
Dr. Ronal Diersing joined CSNAP starting 1 September 2006. He graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor's degree and he received his doctoral degree from the University of Notre Dame. His research interest is in control systems with medical imaging applications.
Zexi Liu joined CSNAP as a graduate student. He graduated from Huazong University with a Bachelors degree and he is pursuing a doctoral degree at Temple University.
August 11, 2006: AGI Educational Alliance
Temple has established an educational alliance with Analytical Graphics Incorporated (AGI) in Exton, PA. AGI is a leader in analysis software for aerospace applications. AGI dontated Satellite Tool Kit software valued at $413,040 to Temple University.
August, 2006: AIAA Conference
Dr. Won and Bei Kang will be attending the AIAA "Guidance, Navigation, and Control" conference to present a paper titled "Autonomous Satellite Maneuver Using PD/LQR With Hybrid Automata Theory"
June 8, 2006: Summer research participants meet with members of the USAF
Dr. Won, and the student researches from CSNAP met with Air Force research personnel At the Temple University Engineering Building. Dr. Won lead a short presentation about the research initiative at the lab, and then there was a tour of the lab.
June 1, 2006: Research on cooperative satellite control commences
Several students, including two previous graduate students, two recent graduates, and two undergraduate students, met to begin summer research, and discuss research goals and objectives.
