2012年7月11日下午，加拿大Concordia大学张友民教授在空天大楼1413会议室作了题为“Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Challenges on Autonomy and Fault Tolerance”的学术报告，报告会由庹红娅老师主持。在报告中，张教授介绍了自主无人飞机系统的发展，挑战和容错控制及其相关技术。在报告后，张教授与现场师生进行了互动讨论，回答了相关提问，气氛十分活跃，受到我院研究生的热烈欢迎。
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Seminar Topic:
Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Challenges
on Autonomy and Fault Tolerance
Abstract
Unmanned systems including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Systems (UAVs or UAS), Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) etc are gaining more and more attention during the last a few years due to their important contributions and cost-effective applications in several tasks such as surveillance, sense, search, rescue, geographic studies, military and security applications. On the other hand, health management and fault-tolerant control of manned aerial vehicles have a long history since the initial research on self-repairing flight control systems in US Air Force and NASA begun in mid-1980s. However, due to safety concern of manned aerial vehicles to the pilot, experimental test and further practical research and development have been limited mainly due to safety concern and constraints. Benefited from the recent and significant advance and development of UAVs, development and application of autonomous, fault-tolerant, as well as cooperative control techniques have been emerged and developed quickly in recent years, since UAVs provide a cheap and operative experimental testbed for development, implementation, testing and validation of the newly developed autonomous, fault-tolerant, as well as cooperative guidance, navigation and control techniques.
In this talk, brief review on the development of Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Challenges on Autonomy and Fault Tolerance of UAVs will be given first, then the latest development and current research work in this active research and development area with applications to autonomous quadrotor helicopter UAVs testbed developed at the Diagnosis, Flight Control and Simulation Lab (DFCSL) and Networked Autonomous Vehicles Lab (NAVL) of Concordia University will be introduced.
Prof. Youmin Zhang
Senior Member AIAA, Senior Member IEEE, Member USC/AUVSI, and Member CSME
Diagnosis, Flight Control and Simulation Lab (DFCSL)
Networked Autonomous Vehicles Lab (NAVL)
Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
& Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI)
Concordia University
1515 St. Catherine W., EV 12-103
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 2W1
Tel: (514) 848-2424 ext. 5225
Fax: (514) 848-3175
Email: ymzhang@encs.concordia.ca
Dr. Youmin Zhang is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Youmin Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in 1995 from the Department of Automatic Control, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, P. R. China. He held several teaching and research positions in Northwestern Polytechnical University, University of New Orleans, Louisiana State University, State University of New York at Binghamton, The University of Western Ontario, and Aalborg University, respectively.
His main research interests are in the areas of condition monitoring, health management, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant and cooperative control of aircraft, satellite and spacecraft, unmanned vehicles and systems; cooperative guidance, navigation and control of unmanned aerial/ground/underwater vehicles; dynamic systems modeling, estimation, identification and advanced control techniques; and advanced signal processing techniques for diagnosis, prognosis and health management of safety-critical systems and manufacturing processes.
He has led and participated several national and international research projects in China, Europe and North America, including NSERC, NASA Aviation Safety Program, and GARTEUR. Dr. Zhang has published 4 books, more than 250 international journal and conference papers (including 59 refereed journal papers). He serves as a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS), the AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Program Committee (PC) on Unmanned Systems, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee (TC) on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (ARUAV). He is currently an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor of 4 international journals and the Editor-in-Chief (invited) of the “Modern Traffic and Transportation Engineering Research (MTTER)”, an IPC member of many international conferences, and the General Chair of a conference. Dr. Zhang is a senior member of AIAA and IEEE, a member of USC/AUVSI and CSME.