Derek A. Paley
University of Maryland, College Park
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
ArtIAMAS PI and co-Lead of the Multi-agent Distributed Scene Perception and Situational Awareness Capability Research Area
Willis H. Young Jr. Professor of Aerospace Engineering Education and Director of the Maryland Robotics Center
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Derek A. Paley is the PI of ArtIAMAS and Director of the Maryland Robotics Center. He also is the founding director of the UMD Collective Dynamics and Control Laboratory and the UMD Autonomous Micro Air Vehicle Team. He received the B.S. degree in Applied Physics from Yale University in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 2007. He teaches introductory dynamics, advanced dynamics, aircraft flight dynamics and control, and nonlinear control. Paley’s research interests are in the area of dynamics and control, including cooperative control of autonomous vehicles, adaptive sampling with mobile networks, spatial modeling of biological groups, and bioinspired robotics. Paley is Associate Fellow of AIAA and Senior Member of IEEE. He serves as Associate Editor of AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics and IEEE Control Systems Magazine.