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John Crassidis
 
 
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|<span style="color:#003399; font-size:180%"> '''John Crassidis '''</span>
|<span style="color:#003399; font-size:180%"> '''John L. Crassidis, Ph.D.'''</span>




<span style="color:#666666; font-size:120%">''Professor''<br />
<span style="color:#666666; font-size:120%">''​CUBRC Professor in Space Situational Awareness''<br />
''​​Director, Center for Multisource Information Fusion''<br />
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering<br />
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering<br />
University at Buffalo<br />
University at Buffalo<br />
Buffalo, NY-14260</span>
Amherst, NY 14260-4400</span>


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'''Voice:''' 716-645-1426<br />
'''Voice:''' 716-645-1426<br />
'''Email:''' johnc (at) buffalo_dot_edu<br />
'''Email:''' johnc (at) buffalo_dot_edu<br />
'''Bio:''' [[Media:CV_Singla.pdf| CV]]</span>
'''CV:''' [http://www.mae.buffalo.edu/people/cv/cv_crassidis.pdf| CV]<br />
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'''Bio:''' [[Biography|Biography]]</span>
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== '''Welcome to the ANCS Laboratory''' ==
 
== '''Welcome to the ANCS Laboratories Wiki'''. ==


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We are located in the ''Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department of University at Buffalo'' [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=103625887700081689574.00047234ffc8017083291 [Map]]. Our group focuses on research related to the general area of '''''uncertainty propagation, nonlinear filtering, stochastic control and multi-resolution modeling.'''''</span>
Advanced Navigation and Control Systems (ANCS) is a research laboratory within the ''Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department'' at the ''University at Buffalo, State University of New York''. Research at ANCS focuses on the areas of '''''attitude estimation, nonlinear filtering, uncertainty propagation, space systems, stochastic control, and robust control.'''''</span>
 
 
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LAIRS lab is equipped with '''Quanser's 2-DOF helicopter, four Dragonfly's quadrotor, and state-of-the-art VICON's 3D motion capturing system'''. The main feature of the VICON motion capture system is their smart cameras with three high speed on-board processors which allows on board intelligent image processing and thus, delivers data faster(up to 1000 frames per second). In addition to this, the LAIRS lab also houses the '''VIDERE Design and MobileRobots's Pioneer 3 DX mobile platforms''' capable of carrying a full load of robotics equipment, including an integrated PC, indoors and outdoors laser rangefinder, pan tilt unit, sonar ring, Pioneer 3DX robot arm and stereo camera. </span>
 
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The simulation environment in the LAIRS lab uses MATLAB/Simulink, Maple, Mathematica, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Java and C/C++ extensively.</span>




== '''Recent News''' ==
== '''Recent News''' ==
 
*[3/2015] Ph.D. Student Andrew Dianetti earns Fellowship through AFRL Scholars Program
*[08/26/11] Reza Successfully defended his MS thesis titled ``A Polynomial Chaos based Approach for State and Parameter Estimation." Congratulations, Reza!!!
*[2/2015] UB NanoSat wins Air Force University Nanosat-8 Competition
* [07/20/11] Singla awarded NSF Career award for his research project entitled, [http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1054759&WT.z_pims_id=5262 “Uncertainty Propagation and Data Assimilation for Toxic Cloud Prediction.” ]
*[2/2015] Dr. Crassidis becomes [http://www.aiaa.org/SecondaryTwoColumn.aspx?id=26659 AIAA Fellow]
* [06/30/2011] Congratulations! Ron (Heichman) has been selected to receive the SUNY LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship for his graduate studies at UB.
* [04/21/11] Singla awarded 2010 University at Buffalo’s “Exceptional Scholar” Young Investigator Award. [http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2011_04_21/exceptional_scholars UB Reporter]
* [03/11] Singla is advising a team of UB student to participate in NASA contest. [http://www.ubspectrum.com/life/there-s-something-going-on-in-the-lairs-lab-1.2129757 UB Spectrum]
* [11/03/10] Singla awarded AFOSR's Young Investigator award for his research work entitled, [http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123229259 "Information Collection and Fusion for Space Situational Awareness."] [http://www.buffalo.edu/news/12500 [UB News]] [http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2011_05_05/space_collisions [UB Reporter]]
<!--* [June 2009] Gabriel Terjanu won the best student paper travel award for paper entitled "Decision Based Uncertainty Propagation Using Adaptive Gaussian Mixtures" in 2009 International Conference on Information Fusion.
* [April 2009] Jonathan Missel is awarded the 2009 Sigma Xi Research Award for poster entitled [http://celebrate.buffalo.edu/studenthonor.php#sigmaxi "VERTIGO: autonomous biaxial inverted pendulum."]-->

Revision as of 23:01, 19 March 2015

John L. Crassidis, Ph.D.


​CUBRC Professor in Space Situational Awareness
​​Director, Center for Multisource Information Fusion
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
University at Buffalo
Amherst, NY 14260-4400

Voice: 716-645-1426
Email: johnc (at) buffalo_dot_edu
CV: CV
Bio: Biography

Crassidis.jpg

Welcome to the ANCS Laboratory

Advanced Navigation and Control Systems (ANCS) is a research laboratory within the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Research at ANCS focuses on the areas of attitude estimation, nonlinear filtering, uncertainty propagation, space systems, stochastic control, and robust control.


Recent News

  • [3/2015] Ph.D. Student Andrew Dianetti earns Fellowship through AFRL Scholars Program
  • [2/2015] UB NanoSat wins Air Force University Nanosat-8 Competition
  • [2/2015] Dr. Crassidis becomes AIAA Fellow