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Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace EngineeringConcordia Institute of Aerospace Design & InnovationConcordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada |
Prof. Youmin Zhang received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1995, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering and the Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
His current research interests include condition monitoring, health management, Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD), and Fault-Tolerant Control Systems (FTCS), cooperative Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) of single and multiple unmanned aerial/space/ground/surface vehicles and their applications to forest fires, pipelines, power lines, environment, natural resources and natural disasters monitoring, detection, and protection by combining with remote sensing techniques; dynamic systems modeling, estimation, identification, advanced control techniques and signal processing techniques for diagnosis, prognosis, and health management of safety-critical systems, renewable energy systems and smart grids, and intelligent manufacturing processes. He has authored 4 books, over 500 highly cited journal and conference papers, and book chapters.
He is a Fellow of Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Technical Committee for several international and national scientific societies. He has been invited to deliver plenary and tutorial talks at international conferences/workshops and research seminars worldwide for over 100 times. He is an Editor-in-Chief, an Editor-at-Large, an Editorial Board Member, and Associate Editor of several international journals. He has served as General Chair, Program Chair, Program Vice Chair, and IPC Member of several international conferences. In view of his outstanding research works, he has been awarded as a Concordia University Research Fellow Award in 2018 in the Strategic Research Cluster 'Technology, Industry and the Environment'. More detailed information can be found at http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~ymzhang/.
Key Technologies and Developments Towards Autonomous and Reliable UAVs and Their Applications
Benefited from technical advances in materials, mechatronics, communication, computation, control, sensors, actuators and new/smart designs, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining more and more attention and rapid development during the last a few years due to their relatively easy and cost-effective uses in various application tasks such as surveillance, sensing, search and rescue, agriculture, forest, environment, pipelines, powerlines, military and security applications. In this talk, brief overall view on the challenges, key technologies and latest developments on Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) of UAVs integrating with Remote Sensing (RS) techniques towards autonomous, efficient and reliable applications to forest, powerline and environment monitoring and fires/damages/risks detection will be presented first, then some of new developments and current research works being carried out at the speaker’s group will be introduced as the second part of the presentation. In particular, new developments on Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD), Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC), Fault-Tolerant Cooperative Control (FTCC) techniques towards new modelling, identification, and control techniques for autonomous and reliable applications to the above-mentioned tasks, and the new technical developments for intelligent image-based efficient and reliable detection of fires/damages/risks based on remotely sensed signals/images from onboard UAVs will be presented.
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