Director
Director
Hekmat Alighanbari, Chair
Hekmat Alighanbari is the chair in the aerospace engineering department at ¹û½´ÊÓÆµ. He is the current director of the Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory.
PhD Students
Master Students
Undergraduate Students
Recent Graduates
Alumni & Past Visitors
18. Jann Cristobal, Sep 2022 - Aug 2025.
Thesis Title: Design, Modeling and Control of an Omnidirectional Quadrotor with Gimballed Rotor
17. Basaam Rassas, Sep 2023 - Aug 2025.
Thesis Title: A Scalable Framework For Air-to-Air Object Detection And Tracking Using Simulated UAV Imagery
16. Shashank Singoji, Sep 2023 - Aug 2025.
Thesis Title: Air-to-Air Object Detection, Tracking, and Prediction
15. Surrayya Mobeen, Sep 2023 - Aug 2025.
Thesis Title: Computationally Efficient Moving Horizon Estimator for Linear Time-Invariant Systems
14. Robert Barnsley, Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
Thesis Title: The Conceptualization, Design, and Development of a Variable Incidence Swept Wing for Vertical Flight
13. Nasim Fallahi, Sep 2022 - Aug 2023.
Thesis Title: Fault-tolerant control of space systems in the presence of component faults
12. Jason Xi, May 2021 - Apr 2023.
Research Area: Biomedical analysis of human-seat interactions
11. Miqdad Khimji, May 2022 – Dec 2022.
Research Area: Thrust vectoring quadrotor
10. Tanmay Bishnoi, May 2022 – Dec 2022.
Research Area: Visual simultaneous localization and mapping
9. Gaurang Kotasthane, May 2022 – Dec 2022.
Research Area: Thrust vectoring quadrotor
8. Atharva Khanduja, May 2022 – Dec 2022.
Research Area: State estimation methods in PX4
7. Obidah Alawneh, Sep 2020 – Aug 2022.
Thesis Title: Computational methods application for musculoskeletal analysis for seating comfort
6. Vishaal Venkatesh, Sep 2020 – Aug 2022.
Thesis Title: Intelligent systems for active noise control within aircraft cabins
5. Anas Saad, Aug 2020 – Aug 2021.
Thesis Title: Reinforcement learning fuzzy algorithm for adaptive cabin management system with the application for adaptive interior lighting
4. Ali Aboubih, May 2021 – May 2022.
Thesis Title: Deep reinforcement learning controller design for unmanned aerial vehicles
3. Anika Shafi, Jun 2021 – Apr 2022.
Research Area: Seating pose tracking of aircraft passengers using computer vision
2. Jann Cristobal, May 2021 – Apr 2022.
NSERC USRA
Research Area: Adaptive-shape quadrotor design
1. Syed Jafri, May 2021 – Dec 2021.
Undergraduate research assistant
Research Area: Hybrid electric propulsion for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle