News Archive
Research announcements, awards, and group updates.
Aug 2026
Aiden Baker joined the research group as a graduate student. Welcome, Aiden!
Aug 2026
Morad Nazari joined the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno.
Apr 2025
Herman Gunter V defended his MS thesis “Robust Adaptive Rigid Body State and Mass Property Estimation via Unscented Kalman Filter on TSE(3) with Process Noise Estimation” and continues his education towards PhD.
Apr 2025
Matthew Wittal defended his PhD dissertation “Robust Spacecraft Autonomy for Deep Space Exploration in Special Euclidean Group SE(3)”.
Apr 2025
Carla Cabero Del Hierro received the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award of the year.
Nov 2024
Morad Nazari received the university-wide Industry Catalyst Award for industry partnerships and external funding in fiscal year 2023–2024.
Sep 2024
Brennan McCann will present the invited talk “Circular restricted full three-body problem with rigid-body spacecraft dynamics in binary asteroid systems” at Cassyni Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy Seminar Series.
Sep 2024
Matthew Wittal received NASA’s Trailblazer Award for mass-property estimation work with JAXA and a Team Award for contributions to Gateway’s Distributed Control team.
Aug 2024
GMARG appears on ERAU news . Thank you Michaela Jarvis and Dr. Eduardo Rojas for providing that news article and recommending our group!
Jun 2024
Morad Nazari presented GMARG’s research at Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano, hosted by Stefano Primatesta, Elisa Capello, Ethan Burnett, and Francesco Topputo.
May 2024
Morad Nazari presented GMARG’s research at NASA JPL, Mobility and Robotic Systems and Guidance and Control Systems groups.
Apr 2024
Junpeng Zhou received the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award of the year.
Jan 2024
Brennan McCann will be joining Johns Hopkins APL in a full-time position.
Nov 2023
Brennan McCann defended his PhD dissertation “Rigid Body Constrained Motion Optimization and Control on Lie Groups and Their Tangent Bundles”.
Nov 2023
The article “Estimation of Rigid Body Inertia Properties with Slosh Dynamics on a Special Euclidean Group” by Nazari et al. is now available in SIAM News.
Jul 2023
Morad Nazari gave an invited talk at SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT23), 2023.
Jul 2023
Morad Nazari was assigned as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Robotics & AI.
May 2023
Morad Nazari presented research on SE(3)-based rigid-body pose estimation with unknown moments of inertia to the Gateway Deep Space Logistics team at NASA Kennedy Space Center.
Apr 2023
Brennan McCann received the Outstanding PhD Student Award.
Apr 2023
Morad Nazari received the Graduate Teaching Award of the year.
Apr 2023
Junpeng Zhou and Sagar Sarkar joined the team to work on the experimental testbed project funded by Air Force.
Apr 2023
Marco Fagetti defended his MS thesis “Nonlinear Dynamics Analysis and Control of Space Vehicles with Flexible Structures” and continues his education towards PhD.
Feb 2023
Rahil Golakiya started a permanent position at NASA JPL as GNC engineer.
Jan 2023
Brennan McCann is admitted to the JPL Spring 2023 internship program.