Health Management, Fault-tolerant Control, and Cooperative Control of Unmanned Aircraft

The workshop will demonstrate the state-of-the-art techniques and development in health management, fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant guidance, navigation and control (GNC), as well as multi-vehicle cooperative GNC techniques. Overview of past, current and future research activities and research and development outcomes on the health management, fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, and cooperative control applications with emphasis to UAVs will be presented, which include aircraft such as quadrotor rotary- and fixed-wing UAVs; Linear and nonlinear techniques for modeling, fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, path and trajectory planning/re-planning, cooperative/formation flight guidance, navigation and control, based on a set of quadrotor helicopter and fixed- wing UAVs testbeds, with practical application scenarios on persistent surveillance and coverage control with multiple unmanned aircraft, will be presented; Multiple UAS operations toward verifiable autonomy and assessment of the potential insertion of UAS in the air transportation system, as well as reliability and safety aspects of UAVs will also be discussed, based on the experience and latest development from world-leading researchers (North America and Europe).

Audience will gain information and knowledge on the latest development and applications on the active research topics in health management, fault detection and diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, and cooperative control of unmanned aerial vehicles from world-leading researchers. Audience will also have opportunity to visit a set of quadrotor helicopter UAVs at the Networked Autonomous Vehicles Lab (NAVL) of Concordia University for real flight demonstrations of fault-tolerant and cooperative control techniques presented in the workshop, in addition to the demonstrations and videos to be shown during the presentation of each presenter.

Graduate students, researchers, developers, managers and anyone who are interested in unmanned systems and techniques, with particular interests on health management, fault-tolerant control, and cooperative control of unmanned aircraft are encouraged for attending this useful and the state-of-the-art workshop.