Facilities
The AVRC Lab provides state-of-the-art research and educational facilities supporting autonomous systems, robotics, mechatronics, and digital-twin experimentation. Our equipment supports undergraduate and graduate courses, multi-agent research, DoD-funded projects, and NSF-funded initiatives such as the RAOP program.
The lab integrates physical platforms (QCar 2, QDrone 2, QArm, Qube-Servo 3, Aero 2, and more) with high-fidelity QLabs Digital Twins, enabling simulation-to-deployment workflows for both teaching and research.
Featured Platforms
Equipment Overview
QCar 2 Autonomous Ground Vehicles
Sensor-rich 1/10-scale cars with LiDAR, RGB-D cameras, and NVIDIA Jetson compute for autonomous navigation, V2V coordination, and tactical autonomy experiments.
QDrone 2 Aerial Robotics Platforms
Protective-cage quadrotors equipped with RGB, depth, optical-flow, and ToF sensors for indoor autonomy, perception, and swarm research.
QArm and QArm Mini Manipulators
4-DOF robotic arms with grippers and depth sensing, used for pick-and-place automation, perception-guided manipulation, and project-based learning.
Qube-Servo 3 Control Systems
Compact rotary servo platforms for teaching fundamentals of modeling, feedback control, state-space design, and robustness.
Aero 2 Helicopter-Style Platform
Dual-rotor platform for experiments in attitude control, multi-input multi-output systems, and advanced control strategies.
QLabs Digital Twins & GPU Workstation
High-fidelity digital twins for QCar, QDrone, QArm, and Qube-Servo 3, backed by a high-performance GPU workstation for AI/ML workloads.
Lab Environment
The AVRC Lab is configured as a hybrid teaching and research studio: movable tables, shared test tracks, and open floor space allow rapid re-configuration for classes, workshops, and multi-agent experiments.
Students and visiting teachers work directly with the platforms shown above, starting in QLabs virtual environments and then transitioning to physical deployment in the same lab space.
