The DECAR group, led by Prof. James Richard Forbes at McGill University, conducts fundamental and applied research on navigation, guidance, and control.
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Joined February 2020
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A fantastic week at ICRA in Vienna! Congrats to Vassili Korotkine, Andrew Stirling, and Yanting Zhou on presenting their latest work covering state estimation, robot localization, and haptics. #ICRA2026 #Robotics #StateEstimation #Koopman
A big congratulations to Prof. James Forbes for being the first recipient of the Donald L. Mordell EUS Teaching Excellence Award! The award was created thanks to the generous support of Don Nilson, in memory of Prof. Donald L. Mordell, Dean of Engineering from 1957 to 1968.
Prof. Forbes was selected due to his commitment to teaching excellence. Almost all DECAR students have taken at least one course with Prof. Forbes, and we can all attest to his passion for the subjects he teaches. Read more here: giving.mcgill.ca/all-stories…
PC: Owen Egan/Joni Dufour
Check out pykoop, the Python library developed as part of Steven's thesis, to see how the Koopman operator can be used to learn dynamical systems: github.com/decargroup/pykoop
It has been an honour and a privilege to be a part of the team involved in mapping the incredible #Endurance shipwreck. Our lab is grateful to have partnered with @teamvoyis, where together we developed a navigation algorithm used during the survey of Endurance.
A big thanks to the team at Voyis, especially Ryan Wicks and Chris Gilson, for their amazing guidance and support throughout this collaboration. Thank you also to DECAR alumni Thomas Hitchcox for all his hard work during his PhD studies.
Additionally, it has been a pleasure to interact with Nico Vincent from @deepoceansearch and Donald Lamont from the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust.
Photo Credits: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust
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Endurance unveiled: McGill team helps bring Shackleton’s lost ship to life in 3D montrealgazette.com/news/loc… via @mtlgazette
Professors Forbes’ last day at #ICRA40 was a great success! He had the opportunity to present collaborative work with @teamvoyis and the University of Michigan, as well as connect with colleagues Silvère Bonnabel and Pieter van Goor and discuss various Kalman filter details!
Professor Forbes had the great pleasure of giving an invited talk at @TUeindhoven today! Thank you to Wouter Kouw and the BIASlab for the invitation!
Sepehr Moalemi, Shabbir Ahmed, Steven Dahdah, and Prof. Forbes attended the Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) in Newcastle upon Tyne last week.
The DECAR team spent a weekend enjoying the summer weather at a lake north of St. Raymond, Quebec! It was a game-filled weekend with lots of good discussions between new and old faces in the lab. Big thanks to Louis for hosting!
Last week was an exciting time at the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) in Montreal! Louis Lortie, Steven Dahdah and Sepehr Moalemi attended along with Prof. Forbes. and presented some of their optimization-related research.
Five current DECAR students and one DECAR alumni attended the American Control Conference (ACC) in Toronto last week! It was a great opportunity to chat with other researchers in the field and share insights in the fields of control, automation, and applied mathematics.
Last week, Professor Forbes co-organized a Special Session at ACC in Toronto titled "Recent Systems and Control Research in Canada", along with Professor Yang Shi from the University of Victoria.
