Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, (2022)
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Marquette University, (2017)
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering, (2015)
Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research
- Beaver, L. E. "Emergent Flocking Behavior through Energy Minimization" $59,914. Federal. 2025 -
- Beaver, L. E. "Maintaining Autonomous Colonies using Global Games" $10,000. State. January 2024 - December 2024
Expertise
Articles
- Hossein Jond, B. .., Beaver, L., Jirou拧ek, M., Ahmadlou, N., Bak谋rc谋o臒lu, V. and Saska, M. (2025). Flatness-based finite-horizon multi-UAV formation trajectory planning and directionally aware collision avoidance tracking. Journal of the Franklin Institute.
- Slightam, J. E.., Steyer, A. J.., Beaver, L. and Young, C. C.. (2025). An Approach to Realize Generalized Optimal Motion Primitives Using Physics Informed Neural Networks. ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control 5 (2).
- Beaver, L., Kroninger, C., Dorothy, M. and Andreas Malikopoulos, A. .. (2025). A Constraint-Driven Approach to Line Flocking: The V Formation as an Energy-Saving Strategy. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.
- Beaver, L. (2024). Optimal control of differentially flat systems is surprisingly easy. Automatica.
- Beaver, L. (2024). Learning a Tracking Controller for Rolling $\mu$bots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
- Beaver, L. (2022). Constraint-Driven Optimal Control of Multiagent Systems: A Highway Platooning Case Study. IEEE Control Systems Letters.
- Beaver, L. and Andreas Malikopoulos, A. .. (2021). An overview on optimal flocking. Annual Reviews in Control.
- Malikopoulos, A. A.., Beaver, L. and Chremos, I. Vasileios. (2021). Optimal time trajectory and coordination for connected and automated vehicles. Automatica 125 , pp. 109469.
- Beaver, L. and Malikopoulos, A. A.. (2020). An energy-optimal framework for assignment and trajectory generation in teams of autonomous agents. Systems and Control Letters 138 , pp. 104670.
Conference Proceeding
- Gholampour, H. and Beaver, L. Mass-Adaptive Admittance Control for Robotic Manipulators ASME Modeling Estimation and Control Conference.
- Slightam, J. E. and Beaver, L. (2025). Optimal Manipulation Motion Action Planner Enabled By Physics Informed Neural Networks ASME Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference.
- Popescu, O., Beaver, L., Kuzlu, M. and Kaipa, K. (2025). Using Quanser Platform to Introduce Engineering Technology Students to Autonomous Vehicles 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings ASEE Conferences.
- Beaver, L. (2024). Multi-Robot Task Allocation Using Global Games with Negative Feedback: The Colony Maintenance Problem AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
- Hall, J., Beaver, L., Cassandras, C. G. and Andersson, S. B. (2023). A Bilevel Optimization Scheme for Persistent Monitoring IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
- Beaver, L. (2023). Closed-Loop Control for a Heterogeneous Group of Magnetically-Actuated Microrobots Proceedings of MARSS 2023 - 6th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales.
- Beaver, L. (2023). Constraint-Driven Optimal Control for Emergent Swarming and Predator Avoidance Proceedings of the American Control Conference.
- Beaver, L. (2023). LQ-OCP: Energy-Optimal Control for LQ Problems IEEE American Control Conference.
- Beaver, L. (2022). A Digital Smart City for Emerging Mobility Systems 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence, DTPI 2022.
- Beaver, L. (2022). A First-Order Approach to Model Simultaneous Control of Multiple Microrobots Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales.
- Beaver, L. (2022). A Graph-Based Approach to Generate Energy-Optimal Robot Trajectories in Polygonal Environments arXiv.
- Beaver, L. (2022). A Scalable Last-Mile Delivery Service: From Simulation to Scaled Experiment IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC.
- Beaver, L. (2022). Constraint-Driven Optimal Control for Emergent Swarming and Predator Avoidance arXiv.
- Beaver, L. (2021). Energy-optimal goal assignment of multi-agent system with goal trajectories in polynomials 2021 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2021.
- Beaver, L. (2021). Energy-Optimal Motion Planning for Agents: Barycentric Motion and Collision Avoidance Constraints Proceedings of the American Control Conference.
- Beaver, L. (2020). A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Social Impact of Connected and Automated Vehicles 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC 2020.
- Beaver, L. (2020). An Optimal Control Approach to Flocking Proceedings of the American Control Conference.
- Beaver, L. (2020). Beyond Reynolds: A Constraint-Driven Approach to Cluster Flocking Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
- Beaver, L. (2020). Demonstration of a time-efficient mobility system using a scaled smart city Vehicle System Dynamics.
- Beaver, L. (2020). Experimental Validation of a Real-Time Optimal Controller for Coordination of CAVs in a Multi-Lane Roundabout IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings.
- Beaver, L. (2020). Zero-Shot Autonomous Vehicle Policy Transfer: From Simulation to Real-World via Adversarial Learning IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA.
- Beaver, L. (2019). A Decentralized Control Framework for Energy-Optimal Goal Assignment and Trajectory Generation Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
- Beaver, L. (2019). Simulation to scaled city: Zero-shot policy transfer for traffic control via autonomous vehicles ICCPS 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems.
- Jang, K., Vinitsky, E., Chalaki, B., Remer, B., Beaver, L., Malikopoulos, A. A.. and Bayen, A. (2019). Simulation to Scaled City: Zero-Shot Policy Transfer for Traffic Control via Autonomous Vehicles Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (pp. 291-300) ACM.
- Beaver, L. (2017). A computational framework for the design and optimization of explosives Proceedings - 30th International Symposium on Ballistics, BALLISTICS 2017.
- 2025: Special Recognition, 5th Annual International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence
- 2022: Best Paper Award, IEEE 2nd Annual International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence
- 2020: Graduate Student Achievement Award, University of Delaware
- 2020: Best Student Paper , 16th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation