The CCCS is conducting collaborative research with the AFRL VA Control Science Center of Excellence (CSCOE) to develop innovative and practical solutions to challenging control science and technology problems of highest interest to the United States Air Force.

The technical focus is on basic and applied research on cooperative control of groups of uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs) and clusters of satellites, aerodynamic flow control, and control of reusable hypersonic launch vehicles. Our innovations in these three critical areas are amplified via development of similar technologies and methodologies for related USAF and DoD problems under other funded programs.

The Center Director is Prof. Kevin Passino, at The Ohio State University (OSU). The Center is located at The Ohio State University, and has researchers at OSU from the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Computer and Information Science. It also has researchers from University of Cincinnati, University of Dayton, and the Air Force Institute of Technology.

In addition to the support from AFRL/AFOSR, the Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute (DAGSI) is supporting graduate student researchers in a cost-sharing relationship. Moreover, NASA Glenn Research Center personnel are working with OSU on aerodynamic flow control, NASA is supporting research at UC in microsatellites, and DARPA is supporting a MICA project on cooperative control and related topics at OSU.