CREATE-X Mentoring (Spring 2025)
Description: As part of the CREATE-X initiative, Prof. Lu Gan mentored a 13-member interdisciplinary student team in developing an autonomous drone system. The team completed the full development cycle—from hardware assembly to achieving GPS-enabled autonomous flight—and is now advancing toward vision-based navigation. This hands-on experience fosters students’ innovation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and entrepreneurial confidence.
More Information: https://sites.gatech.edu/lunarlab/create-x-mentoring-spring-2025/
AE 3531 – Ctrl Sys Analysis & Design (Spring 2024 – Present)
Course Description: This course covers control system performance analysis and specifications, classical methods of control system analysis and design, and an introduction to modern control methods – with a focus on aerospace applications.
Course Page: https://ae3531a.notion.site/
Previously at University of Michigan
ROB 101: Computational Linear Algebra – Graduate Student Instructor (Fall 2021)
Course Description: Computational Linear Algebra is a first-semester, first-year undergraduate course that shows how mathematics and computation are unified for reasoning about data and making discoveries about the world. Linear algebra and coding are rapidly becoming an essential foundation for the modern engineer in a computational world. Math is the language of engineering, but coding is believing and realizing it. Students in this course will gain insights into the mathematical theory of linear algebra and its realization in practical computational tools. The mathematical content of ROB 101 is built around systems of linear equations, their representation as matrices, and numerical methods for their analysis. These methods will be given life through the lens of robotics and contemporary intelligent systems and their compelling applications.
Course Description: Topics include Bayesian filtering; stochastic representations of the environment; motion and sensor models for mobile robots; algorithms for mapping, localization; application to autonomous marine, ground, and air vehicles.