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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)

Expertise

Articles

Hossein Jond, B. .., Beaver, L., Jiroušek, M., Ahmadlou, N., Bakırcıoğlu, 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