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On November 11, 2023, U of T Engineering students gathered in the basement of the Sandford Fleming Building — known to many as The Pit — to witness the deployment of HERON Mk. II into space. The 3U CubeSat satellite, […]
U of T Engineering researchers have partnered with Siemens Energy to tackle a key challenge in the energy sector: sustainable energy conversion for propulsion and power generation – such as developing gas turbine engines that can run on sustainable energy […]
For aviation, the path to reduced climate change impact and eventually net-zero carbon dioxide emissions is clear. We must replace fossil fuels with net-zero energy sources, and improve aircraft energy efficiency. The latter is essential given that future energy sources […]
Faculty Spotlight
Professor H.T. Liu
Flight Systems and Control Laboratory
Research Focus
• To design innovative dynamics and control solutions to improve aerial systems performance
• To develop transformative flight technologies for better aviation
Current Projects
• Designing fault tolerant control techniques for flexible aircraft
• Designing a novel amphibian UAV for commercial and scientific missions, e.g. water assessment, wildfire monitoring
• Investigating formation flight of large number of UAVs
• Studying swarming robotic drones in cooperative hunting
