The IONLAB Program Mission Statement
A Guidance, Navigation and Control Research and Training Program at the Department of Aerospace Vehicles Design and Control (DCAS) at ISAE-SUPAERO. We are part of the Decision and Control Research Group, and we develop methodologies to tackle complex control problems by tightly coupling subsystems through an interdisciplinary lens.
The IONLAB default project execution pipeline (i.e., professor-driven problem definition, student design proposal, technical reviews from SUPAERO technical teams, and student-driven hands-on implementation in Fablab) promotes the integration of students, professors, engineers, and technicians in novel ways. Finally, the hands-on dimension of the IONLAB projects aims to break the white-collar-blue-collar structure commonly seen in companies and promotes passionate craftsmanship.
Research Areas
Guidance, Navigation and Control of Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs);
Highly-Maneuverable Aircraft Modeling and Control;
Very Flexible Aircraft Modeling and Control.
The IONLAB Program in Numbers
2 years of existence;
Graduated PhDs: 0;
Graduated MScs: 10;
MAVION Publications in Q1 Venues: 2;
HALION Publications in Q1 Venues: 1;
Total Number of Publications: 5;
Outdoors drone flight hours: 12h;
Indoors drone flight hours: 42h.
IONLAB Highlights
The home of Phi-Theory;
The home of the HALION Project;
The home of the MAVION Project.
Featured Journal Publication
LUSTOSA L.R., KOLMANOVSKY I., CESNIK C.E.S., VETRANO, F., Aided inertial estimation of wing shape. AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 44, no. 2, 2021, pp. 210-219. 📜
Featured Conference Publication
MURALI K., PONCE-MORENO E., LUSTOSA, L.R., Flight validation of a global singularity-free aerodynamic model for flight control of tail sitters. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024. (Accepted, to be presented.)
Opportunities and Open Positions
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