Unmanned Aircraft Systems

As for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), we focus on guidance, navigation and control (GNC) and cybersecurity and high assurance control of the UAS, which has become crucial for safe and secure operation of UAS in various civilian and military applications.

Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC)

• localization and mapping
• sensor fusion
• UAS modeling and control

Cyber Security and High Assurance Control of the UAS

• cyber-attack vulnerability analysis which can identify vulnerabilities of the UAS and assess its degree of severity by characterizing the compromised behavior of the UAS
• development of cyber security monitoring systems and high assurance control design which can allow for the UAS whose physical operations are resilient to the damage caused by cyber-attacks, successfully complementing the existing computer-security-based UAS cybersecurity technology.

For algorithm development and validations, we develop

• open-source based autonomous unmanned vehicle system platforms; and
• software/hardware-in-the-loop testbeds.