Past Projects

• Autonomous Visual Landing
• Implementation of Pilot Authority and Control of Tasks with application to autonomous decision-making for Unmanned Air Vehicles
• Multi-Aircraft Cooperative Flying
• Outdoor Quadrotor Control

Recent Grants

1. Enabling wide area persistent remote sensing for agriculture applications through developing and coordinating heterogenous platforms

    Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Newton Fund. ST/N006852/1. £1,015K, 01/05/2016-31/04/2019. (PI; CoIs:  Cunjia Liu                    (Loughborough) , Antonios Tsourdos and Abdul Mounem Mouazen (Cranfield),  Zhengtao Ding and Alexandru Stelian Stancu (Manchester),                Xiangming Xu (NIAB EMR)).

2. Joint Pacific-Europe Development of an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for Environmental Monitoring and Surveillance in the Pacific        Island Countries (PICs). 

    Pacific-PlusNet , European Union. €10K, 2015-2016.  

3. Gust alleviation for mini UAVs using disturbance rejection flight control. 

    Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, ASUR (Autonomous Systems Underpinning Research). Ref. 1014_C3_PH1_056.  £40K, 03/2015-09/2015. (CoI,         with Dr C. Liu)

4. Maintaining Network Connectivity and Performance using multi-layer ISR system.

    Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, ASUR (Autonomous Systems Underpinning Research).  Ref.: 1014_C1_PH1_028. £40K, 03/2015-09/2015. (CoI,            with Dr HD Oh).

5. Signal Processing Solutions for the Networked Battle Space.

    EPSRC/Dstl (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory).  UDRC (University Defence Research Centre). EP/K014307/1. 

    £3.67M, 01/04/2013-31/03/2018. Co-investigator (with a budget of £423K). PI Prof Jonathon Chamber, FREng.
6. Towards More Autonomy for Unmanned Vehicles: Situational Awareness and Decision Making under Uncertainty. 
    EPSRC. EP/J011525/1. £1,006K, 01/03/2012--30/12/2016. (PI. CoIs: Lisa Jackson, Baibing Li, Paul Chung, Qinggang Meng, Mohammed Quddus,        Cunjia Liu).