<span id="docs-internal-guid-0b27bb3c-c45d-bc68-bd79-75b76ccbfd90"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CITRIS is a program that is headquartered at Berkeley, but has centers at Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz University of California campuses. CITRIS is an institution at UC campuses that helps groundbreaking research obtain funding and helps to incubate research into startups. CITRIS has four primary initiatives: Energy, Democracy, Infrastructure, and Health. Its mission is to benefit each initiative with further integration with information technology. Through these four initiatives, CITRIS provides the support necessary to help provide solutions for California and the global community at large. CITRIS is also responsible for sponsoring the Mobile App Challenge, where the top 5 teams moving into the Innovate to Grow competition.</span></span>
=== Mesa MESA Lab ===
Mesa <span id="docs-internal-guid-59cfac67-c91c-5310-6c4e-917db34bf48b"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation Laboratory (MESA Lab )</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">main goal is“Real solutions for sustainability.”</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-59cfac67-c91c-5310-6c4e-917db34bf48b"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lab’s research focuses on the following.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-59cfac67-c91c-5310-6c4e-917db34bf48b">[http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/research/unmanned-aerial-systems <span style="color: rgb(40, 80, 145); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unmanned Aerial Systems and UAV-based Personal Remote Sensing</span>]</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-59cfac67-c91c-5310-6c4e-917db34bf48b">[http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/research/cyber-physical-systems <span style="color: rgb(40, 80, 145); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)</span>]</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-59cfac67-c91c-5310-6c4e-917db34bf48b">[http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/research/renewable-energy-systems <span style="color: rgb(40, 80, 145); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Modeling and Control of Renewable Energy Systems</span>]</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-59cfac67-c91c-5310-6c4e-917db34bf48b">[http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/research/mechatronics <span style="color: rgb(40, 80, 145); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mechatronics</span>]</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-59cfac67-c91c-5310-6c4e-917db34bf48b">[http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/research/applied-fractional-order-calculus <span style="color: rgb(40, 80, 145); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Applied Fractional Calculus (AFC)</span>]</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-59cfac67-c91c-5310-6c4e-917db34bf48b"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fractional Order Motion Control and Process Control</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-59cfac67-c91c-5310-6c4e-917db34bf48b"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RIOTS- A Matlab Toolbox for Solving General Optimal Control Problems</span></span></span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-59cfac67-c91c-5310-6c4e-917db34bf48b"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The MESA Lab host various events throughout the year to showcase its progress in innovative breakthroughs. Headed by Professor YangQuan Chen, student Lab Technician Interns and Undergraduate researchers work collaboratively with Graduate students to produce the most efficient and reliable systems possible. The entrepreneurial spirit which guides the lab can be summed up by the following: “Try to be the first to test and solve new problems; if your work is not the first of its kind, make sure that your solutions/research are the best.”</span></span><div><br/></div>
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