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Networked Autonomous Vehicles (NAV) Lab   &   Diagnosis, Flight Control and Simulation (DFCS) Lab

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

 

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Concordia New President Alan Shepard visited the NAV Lab on 2012-09-28

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Attendee visiting the lab after the ACC12 Workshop (2012-06-26)

http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~ymzhang/ACC2012_Workshop.htm;

http://www.acc-12-workshop.cran.uhp-nancy.fr/home.html;

http://a2c2.org/conferences/acc2012/workshops.php

 

Introduction to Our Current Research Work at Networked Autonomous Vehicles (NAV) Lab. and Diagnosis, Flight Control and Simulation (DFCS) Lab (2010-03-08).

 

Download the Lab Brochure here for DFCS and NAV Labs (2014)

 

·         Visit also NAVConcordia YouTube Channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/NAVConcordia for other videos of our experimental testing results

 

·         Flight Test Results of Rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) in Fault-tolerant and Cooperative Control:

 

Latest Test Videos:

 

Payload Drop Application of Qball-X4 UAV Based on PID, GS-PID and MPC Control Techniques (Link in YouTube)

 

Flatness-based Fault-tolerant Formation Control with QGV and Qbot UGVs (Link in YouTube)

 

Distributed Coordination of Multi-Agent Systems (Link in YouTube)

 

Model Predictive Control for an Unmanned Quad-rotor Helicopter (Link in YouTube)

 

Trajectory Tracking with Model Predictive Control - An Unmanned Quad-rotor Helicopter (Link in YouTube)

 

Fault-tolerant Model Predictive Control of An Unmanned Quad-rotor Helicopter (Link in YouTube)

 

Control Allocation & Re-allocation for Unmanned Quadrotor Helicopter (Link in YouTube)

 

Past Test Videos before 2012:

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Real Experimental Test – Robustness of Controller

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Test for Qball-Qbot Tracking

 

Quadrotor UAV (D-X4): Test for D-X4-Qbot Tracking

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Test for Qball-Qbot-Truck Tracking

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Test for Qball Fault Tolerant Altitude Control with PID and GS-PID

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Test for Qball Fault Tolerant Trajectory Control with GS-PID

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Test for Qball Square-shape Trajectory Following with SMC

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Autonomous Flight Control of Quadrotor Helicopter using MRAC-LQR

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Fault Tolerant Control of Quadrotor Helicopter in the Presence of Partial Propeller Damage (Link in YouTube; Link2)

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Autonomous Tracking Control of Quadrotor Helicopter using SMC

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Passive Fault Tolerant Tracking Control of Quadrotor Helicopter using SMC

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Active Fault Tolerant Tracking Control of Quadrotor Helicopter using SMC

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Autonomous Tracking Control of Quadrotor Helicopter using BSC

 

Quadrotor UAV (Qball): Autonomous Tracking Control of Quadrotor Helicopter using FLC

 

·        Flight Test Results of Fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs):

 

Flying F-16 UAV Model: 1st Flight on 2010-11-19 Concordia University

 

Flying Airbus 380 (A380) UAV with MP2128: 1st Flight on 2011-06-06 Concordia University

 

Student or anyone who is interested in the above research topics is welcome to contact Prof. Youmin Zhang at ymzhang@encs.concordia.ca.