Welcome to the website for Loughborough University Centre for Autonomous System (LUCAS), based at Loughborough University. LUCAS is a specialised research group, focusing on research in aerospace control. Comprised of both students and research professionals, LUCAS has strong links to many industrial partners and primarily works on research for unmanned applications. In addition to industry-backed research, a large part of LUCAS is post-graduate study, allowing for an investigation into areas not currently commercially explored.
Our specific areas of interest include:
See Research for more details
We are always looking for passionate new students (PhD and MSc/MEng) and post-docs to join the team (more info)
Please check out our GitHub page and Resources tab for software.
We are grateful for funding from UKRI, EPSRC, Newton Fund, dstl.
Congratulations LUCAS Alumni Prof Lei Guo elevated to Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
26 Oct 2023Report Prof Hyondong Oh from UNIST, South Korea gives us a talk
Oct 2023New post! The UKACC PhD Showcase and Prof Roger Goodall Memorial will be held at LU here.
July 2023Congratulations Dr Jun Yang has been promoted to Reader
July 2023Congratulations Dr Cunjia Liu has been promoted to Professor
July 2023Congratulations Unmanned Systems’ Annual Best Paper Award, Machine Learning-Based Crop Drought Mapping System by UAV Remote Sensing RGB Imagery, by Jinya Su, Matthew Coombes, Cunjia Liu, Yongchao Zhu, Xingyang Song, Shibo Fang, Lei Guo and Wen-Hua Chen
Jan 2023Congratulations Dr Jingjing Jiang has been promoted to Senior Lecturer
Oct 2023Project New project funded by QinetiQ for Dual Control application in threat minimization
Dec 2022Congratulations Dr Jun Yang has been named an IEEE Fellow