UTIAS News

Celebrating Vanier Scholar Sean Wolfe

Join us in celebrating Sean Wolfe, an exceptional PhD candidate in the Aerospace Mechatronics Research Group at U of T. His remarkable achievement of winning the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship underscores his dedication to shaping the future of aerospace. […]

Graduate students design and build satellites for NASA and other clients

For Alexandre Florio (UTIAS MASc candidate), one of the most thrilling aspects of spacecraft design is that the team only has one chance to get the mission right.  “If your car breaks down on a road, you can go to an auto […]

Spotlight on Robotics Achievers: Olivier Lamarre & Mia Thomas!

In June, the first-ever University of Toronto Robotics Institute end-of-year celebration brought together faculty, students, staff, partners and friends from across the University of Toronto’s St. George and University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campuses to mark a year of progress, […]

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