Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Dr. Ciarcià received an MS degree in Aerospace Engineering at Università degli Studi di Palermo in 2001 and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Rice University in 2008. From 2010 to 2014, he was awarded of the U.S. National Research Council Research Fellowship during which his research activities were carried out at the Spacecraft Robotics Laboratory of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. Dr. Ciarcià is now Assistant Professor at South Dakota State University in the Mechanical Engineering Department. As director of the Aerospace Robotics Testbed Laboratory (ARTLAB), his current research interests include robotics, nonlinear control, optimal control, spacecraft GNC, and small satellites.