Fri, Sep 26, 2003
Dr. Vladislav Gavrilets is one of 'Top 100 Young
Innovators'
A recent hire at Athena Technologies, Vladislav Gavrilets, PhD,
has been identified by Technology Review Magazine as one
of their annual Top 100 Young Innovators.
Each year, in an effort
to capture the future of technology, MIT’s Technology
Review selects 100 young (35 and under) innovators in a wide
range of technological areas. Collectively known as the TR100, the
group was inducted during The Emerging Technologies Conference held
at MIT on September 24 and 25.
According to the October issue of the magazine, "We combed
through the rosters of universities, companies, national
laboratories, and other R&D outfits around the globe to find
100 of today’s most exciting young innovators: the lab
dwellers, visionaries, and dealmakers whose work will utterly
transform our world in the years to come."
Heli-UAV Performs Computerized Aerobatic Routine
Gavrilets was selected as a result of his doctoral research at
MIT that demonstrated autonomous aerobatic maneuvers with a
miniature helicopter. "The main idea in my research was to figure
out how R/C [remote control] pilots perform aerobatic maneuvers,
then develop a mathematical model of the pilot’s strategies,
which was then implemented on a computer," explained Gavrilets.
Having done so successfully, Gavrilets was able to implement an
autopilot that demonstrated a number of aerobatic maneuvers on a
fully autonomous basis for the first time ever. These maneuvers
were combined in a fully autonomous air show sequence which was
recently demonstrated by a one-and-a-half meter long unmanned
helicopter.
Gavrilets, a two-time junior chess champion from Kyrgyzstan,
received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in June
2003. He then joined Athena Technologies where he is now Manager of
Control Systems Development.
[photo courtesy Technology Review --ed.]
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