{"id":923,"date":"2017-12-21T14:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T19:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/auto\/?page_id=923"},"modified":"2019-05-16T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T19:49:47","slug":"autonomous-operations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/auto\/research-areas\/autonomous-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carleton researchers at the Spacecraft Robotics and Control Laboratory<\/a> are focusing on the development of autonomous guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) technologies that enable challenging spacecraft operations, such as rendezvous and docking, formation flying, on-orbit servicing and robotic capture of space debris and damaged satellites.\u00a0 The centerpiece of this laboratory is a 20,000 pound, 8 feet by 12 feet gravity-offset air bearing table, which emulates the dynamics of space by making use of compressed air to float spacecraft platforms on a flat, smooth, frictionless, large surface area.\u00a0 This unique facility allows researchers to develop and experimentally validate their innovative spacecraft GN&C technologies in a realistic environment.<\/p>\n

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Mojtaba Ahmadi<\/h3>

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Interests: robotic analysis, design & control; autonomous systems and locomotion; biomechatronics; assistive devices and learning; accessibility.<\/p>\t

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Victor Aitken<\/h3>

Associate Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering. Interests: control systems; data and information fusion; redundancy; machine vision; mapping and localization; sensing; unmanned vehicle systems; robotics.<\/p>\t

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Mohamed Atia<\/h3>

Associate Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering. Interests: sensors & signal processing; wireless positioning\/navigation; A.I. & machine learning.<\/p>\t

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Hicham Chaoui<\/h3>

Associate Professor, Department of Electronics. Interests: nonlinear dynamic systems; adaptive and intelligent control theory; machine intelligence.<\/p>\t

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Robin Chhabra<\/h3>

Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair Tier 2, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Research applications: light-weight space manipulators for autonomous capture and release; space debris removal; planetary exploration rovers; hierarchical control of space missions.<\/p>\t

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Jeff Dawson<\/h3>

Associate Professor, Department of Biology. Interests: applications in aerodynamics based on insect & animal flight.<\/p>\t

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Mostafa El Sayed<\/h3>

Director, ASME-Lab and Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Interests: Solid and Computational Mechanics, Structural Optimization and Additive Manufacturing <\/p>\t

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Alex Ellery<\/h3>

Full Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Interests: space robotics, satellite tech, entry\/descent\/landing systems, astrobiological survey instrumentation, biomimetic design.<\/p>\t

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Jason Etele<\/h3>

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Interests: flight mechanics; UAVs; launch systems.<\/p>\t

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Yuhong Guo<\/h3>

Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Associate Professor, School of Computer Science. Interests: machine learning; A.I.; natural language processing; computer vision; bioinformatics; data analysis.<\/p>\t

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John Hayes<\/h3>

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Interests: space robotics; machine vision;automated calibration systems; theoretical kinematics.<\/p>\t

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Karim Ismael<\/h3>

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering. Interests: modelling of intelligent, sustainable and non-motorized modes of transportation; road safety analysis. analysis of intelligent transporation systems (focus on freight).<\/p>\t

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Jeremy Lalibert\u00e9<\/h3>

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Aerospace mechanics & materials; AUVs & MAVs.<\/p>\t

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Robert Langlois<\/h3>

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Interests: vehicle dynamics; mathematical modelling & computer simulation.<\/p>\t

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Mark Lanthier<\/h3>

Associate Professor & Associate Director Undergrad, School of Computer Science. Interests: robotics; coordination and path planning using computational geometry; mapping, searching and task partitioning; external sensing; 3D imaging.<\/p>\t

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Jie (Peter) Liu<\/h3>

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Interests: condition monitoring; system control; machine learning; instrumentation & measurement.<\/p>\t

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Craig Merrett<\/h3>

Adjunct Research Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Interests: aerospace materials; renewable energy devices.<\/p>\t

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Fred Nitzsche<\/h3>

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Head of Rotorcraft Research Group. Interests: aerospace mechanics; smart structures; alternative energy structures.<\/p>\t

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Doron Nussbaum<\/h3>

Associate Professor, School of Computer Science. Interests: algorithms; computational geometry; data structures; machine vision; GIS.<\/p>\t

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John Oommen<\/h3>

Chancellor's Professor, School of Computer Science. Interests: image processing & pattern recognition; data structures; A.I.; theory of computing.<\/p>\t

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Franz Oppacher<\/h3>

Professor, School of Computer Science. Interests: evolutionary computation; A.I.<\/p>\t

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Nicola Santoro<\/h3>

Distinguished Research Professor, School of Computer Science. Interests: algorithms; communication networks; data structures; distributed & real-time systems; robotics.<\/p>\t

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Jurek Sasiadek<\/h3>

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Interests: robotics & automation; navigation and control; neural networks.<\/p>\t

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Howard Schwartz<\/h3>

Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering. Interests: adaptive and learning systems and robots; cooperative and adaptive control.<\/p>\t

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Pavel (Paul) Straznicky<\/h3>

Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Interests: aircraft structures, materials & design; unmanned vehicle systems.<\/p>\t

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Steve Ulrich<\/h3>

Director, Spacecraft Robotics and Control Laboratory, and Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Interests: guidance, navigation & control algorithms & software; computer vision-based navigation; automation and robotics.<\/p>\t

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Jim Wight<\/h3>

Chancellor's Professor, Department of Electronics. Interests: wireless\/satellite communications; radar; navigation.<\/p>\t

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George O.M. Yee<\/h3>

Adjunct Research Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering. Interests: information security\/privacy; computational intelligence; software engineering.<\/p>\t

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Richard Yu<\/h3>

Professor, School of Information Technology (cross-appointed to the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering). Interests: connected & autonomous vehicles; cyber security and privacy; artificial intelligence; blockchain; wireless networks.<\/p>\t

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