About Us

Welcome to the Intelligent Systems Laboratory, where we design, build, and understand intelligent systems. We are located in the Engineering and Computational Sciences Building as part of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Old Dominion University.

Research Areas

• Nov 2024: Our article on constraint-driven control for UAV flocking has been published and is now available on IEEExplore
• Oct 2024: We presented our L-DSC article on Physics Informed Neural Networks for robotic manipulation at MECC 2024
• July 2024: We had an extremely successful workshop at the 2024 American Control Conference, with over 40 attendees!
• May 2024: Brock was awarded a $5,000 scholarship by the Perry Honor's College to develop an autonomous blimp for the Defend the Republic ONR Competition
• Apr 2024: I was invited to speak at a workshop on autonomous vehicles at the 2024 NSF FRR-NRI PI Meeting in Baltimore, MD
• Feb 2024: Our article on learning and control for micron-scale robots was published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
• Jan 2024: Our article on optimal control for differentially flat systems was published in Automatica
• Jan 2024: We had one conference paper and a workshop proposal accepted for the 2024 American Control Conference in Toronto, CA
• Dec 2023: I was awarded a $10,000 seed grant by the Virginia Space Grant Consortium Young Investigator Program to develop game-theoretic solutions to multi-robot task allocation
• Nov 2023: I presented a poster and chaired the workshops at the IEEE Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence conference in Orlando, FL
• Aug 2023: I presented a poster and had an amazing time at the Science of Intelligence Summer school at TU Berlin
• July 2023: I co-hosted the first tutorial on ecologically-inspired robots and presented a paper at the 2023 IFAC World Congress in Yokohama, Japan
• July 2023: I am officially an Assistant Professor of Autonomous Systems at Old Dominion University!

If you are interested in collaboration, feel free to get in touch at: lbeaver {at} odu.edu.

If you are a potential student, please don't send me an email unless you're responding to specific opening that I have posted. The department makes all admission decisions by committee.