Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Graduate Students

Min-hyung Kim


Capturing a space object using spacecraft robotic manipulators 

Tae-yeon Choi


Earth observation using small satellites 

Undergraduate Students

Yeon-seo Lee


Space transportation using multiple space vehicles 

Alumni of Dr. Park's Lab 

Micah Schuman

M.S. , 2022Thesis: Control System Design and Analysis for Precision Pointing and Alignment ofNano-Satellites
Current:  Control System Engineer, Lockheed Martin, TX 

Luke King 

M.S. , 2022Thesis: Model Predictive Control and Reinforcement Learning for Hypersonic Gliding Vehicles and Spacecraft Docking
Current:  Operations System Engineer, Boeing, NM 

Sterling Swift

M.S., 2021 
Current:  Raytheon, AZ 

Alexa Mortenson

M.S., 2020 Thesis: Settling Time Analysis and Control Development for CubeSats in Distributed Telescope Systems
Current:  Systems Engineer, Peraton, NASA White Sands, NM 

Isaac Kassim 

M.S. , 2020Thesis: Predictive Guidance and Control for Robotic Obstacle Avoidance and Hypersonic Trajectory Generation
Current:  Automation Systems Engineer, Raytheon Technologies Intelligence and Space, CA 

Chandler Art

B.S. , 2022CubeSat attitude control for VISORS mission
Current:  Raytheon, AZ 

Dominic Hernandez

B.S. , 2021Mission design for small satellite rendezvous and docking
Current:  M.S. Student, University of Colorado Boulder 

Thomas Peterson

B.S., 2019 Aerial manipulator / Control of multiple UAVs
Current:  Raytheon, AZ 

Amit Bala 

B.S. , 2019Aerial manipulator / ROS
Current:  Ph.D. Student, Virginia Tech. 

Tyler Bridges

B.S., 2019 Aerial manipulator / Control of multiple UAVs
Current:  L3Harris Technologies, TX

Visiting Scholars and Students

Niccolo Carnevaletti

Visiting Graduate Student, 2019M.S., Politecnico di Torino, ItalyThesis:  Robust Attitude Control and Failure Analysis for Small Satellites 

Filippo Caldera

Visiting Graduate Student, 2019M.S., Politecnico di Torino, ItalyThesis:  Attitude Control Strategies for a Small Satellite with a Manipulator