Directors on Their Favorite Films of 2025

Taylor Hackford is an Oscar-winning filmmaker and former president of the Directors Guild of America. His films include “An ...

Directors on Their Favorite Films of 2025: From Janicza Bravo to Paul Thomas Anderson to Barry Jenkins and More

Director, writer and producer Barry Levinson won an Oscar for “Rain Man,” and his credits include such iconic films as “Diner ...

If I Had an Oscar Ballot 2026: Best Movies, Performances and TV Shows

Thunderous spectacles unfurled alongside hushed, inward-facing character studies. Some films swung wildly and missed — ...

If I Had an Oscar Ballot: Brazil’s Secret, Gaza’s Voice and the Year Sin and Grief Became Cinema

Thunderous spectacles unfurled alongside hushed, inward-facing character studies. Some films swung wildly and missed — ...

With air quality worsening again, we take a hard look at today’s air purifiers

With air quality levels slipping back into unhealthy territory across several Indian cities, air purifiers are once again part of everyday conversations. This piece looks at how to approach buying one ...
IEEE

Barrier Lyapunov Function-Based Control for Position-Based Visual Servoing of Fully Actuated UAVs within PX4

Abstract: Position-Based Visual Servoing (PBVS) is a widely used technique for UAV control, enabling precise motion based on visual feedback. This paper presents a nonlinear control strategy based on ...
IEEE

Control of an Underactuated Quadrotor Using LQR and Visual Markers

Abstract: In this study, a robust Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) controller was developed and evaluated for the Bebop 2 quadrotor drone. Polytopic uncertainties in the dynamic model were taken into ...