Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Logan Beaver

757-683-3789

1319 ENGR & COMP SCI BLDG
NORFOLK, 23529

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

RoboticsMulti-agent systems, control systemsOptimizationConstrained optimizationTransportation EngineeringConnected and Automated VehiclesMathematicsOptimal control

Articles

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. (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. (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

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.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.

  • 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

Organizational Chart