"creativity takes flight" -- a research lab at the UTIAS
Cheryl Shi is a PhD Student with the FSC lab, focusing on human trust in aerial drones for wildfire monitoring and suppression. Her research interests include realistic drone dynamics simulation, operator trust, and the impacts of mixed manual/automatic drone control Continue Reading …
Joseph Halliday is an M.Eng. student with the FSC Lab. His research focuses on the modelling and simulation development of plant health monitoring UAV systems. Research Interests Octo-rotor Modelling, Control, and Simulation Education M.Eng. – University of Toronto – Aerospace Continue Reading …
Keilan Pieper is a PhD Student with the FSC lab, specializing in VTOL trajectory planning with adaptive and machine learning control techniques, uncertainty and disturbance estimation. Research Interests VTOL, trajectory planning, machine learning control techniques Education Ph.D. – University of Continue Reading …
Constantine Cheng is a M.A.Sc. Candidate with the FSC lab, specializing in Data driven control for non-rigid body slung payload collaborative UAV systems. Research Interests Slung Payload, Stabilization through CCM Control schemes Education M.A.Sc. – University of Toronto – Aerospace Engineering Continue Reading …
Bo Yuan Chai is an M.Eng. student with the FSC Lab during the Summer of 2025. His research focuses on nonlinear control with slung load systems. Research Interests Nonlinear control, robust control, learning-based estimation Education Web Pages
Mark Zhuang is an M.Eng. student with the FSC Lab during the Summer of 2025. He was also an undergraduate thesis student from 2023 to 2024. His research focuses on drone defense systems, with a particular interest in reinforcement learning Continue Reading …
Andrew Yin is a summer research intern with the FSC lab. He is an undergraduate in industrial engineering with minors in artificial intelligence and business. His research focuses on control evaluation in multi-drone pursuit-evasion strategies using the QuadSwarm simulator. Research Continue Reading …
Nuzaira Habib was a summer research intern with the FSC lab. Her work focuses on the quantification and modelling of trust in human-robot interaction. Research Interests human-robot interaction, trust in autonomous systems Education B.A.Sc. – Engineering Science – University of Continue Reading …
Kevin Hu is an M.Eng. student with the FSC lab. His research work focus is Reinforcement Learning Based Model Predictive Control (RLMPC) for drone trajectory tracking. Research Interests machine learning, model-predictive control, quadrotor dynamics and control Education M.Eng. – University Continue Reading …
Shirin Dolatabadi is a current Ph.D. student with the FSC lab. Her research focuses on the modelling and control of fire-fighting UAV systems. Research Interests Multirotor flight dynamics, quadrotor dynamic modelling. Education Ph.D. – University of Toronto – Aerospace Engineering Continue Reading …