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Michael talks to Dr. David Zingg, Professor at and former Director of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies about how planes contribute to our environmental footprint. Michael and Professor Zingg discuss the impact flight has on greenhouse gas… Read more »
The drive to put autonomous vehicles on the market has sped up over the last decade but that doesn’t mean self-driving cars will be truly road-ready anytime soon. “We are way far from that level where a machine can drive… Read more »
Can tiny, worm-like robots revolutionize the way surgeons work? How will human-robot interactions be improved? Can AI and robotics create self-driving cars that make winter driving safer? These are just some of the questions that interdisciplinary teams of professors and… Read more »
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Professor Hugh Liu
Flight Systems & 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
