Scholar
Brett T. Lopez
Google Scholar ID: 9cz0xFMAAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering UCLA
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,273
H-index
20
i10-index
29
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- UCLA Faculty Career Development Award (2023)
- UCLA MAE Outstanding Teaching Award (2023)
- Nominated for IEEE Control Systems Letters Outstanding Paper Award (2023)
- First place, IEEE Control Systems Society Video Clip Contest (2015)
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2014)
- UCLA Aerospace Engineering Outstanding Bachelor of Science (2014)
- Principal Investigator for ARL Scalable, Adaptive, and Resilient Autonomy CRA; MAV Lead for DARPA Subterranean Challenge; Planning and Control Lead for DARPA Fast Lightweight Autonomy Program
Background
- Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA
- Director of the VECTR Laboratory
- Research interests: nonlinear and optimal control theory, localization and mapping, autonomy for aerospace systems
- Focuses on principled approaches to improve reliability and performance of autonomous aerospace systems in diverse or uncertain conditions
- Research advances trajectory design, state estimation, mapping, and decision-making under uncertainty
- Applications include autonomous exploration, emergency response, advanced urban mobility, orbit insertion, and spacecraft entry, descent, and landing