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NUS team wins 2009 Asian Control Conference Best Application Paper Award

04 Sep 2009



The UAV Research team at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Front row, from left: Mr Dong Xiangxu, Prof Ben M Chen, Prof Lee Tong Heng and Dr Lin Hai. Back row, from left: Mr Yun Ben, Mr Lin Feng and Mr Cai Guowei.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has won the 2009 Asian Control Conference (ASCC) Best Application Paper Award for their work on the application of advanced modelling and control techniques on a real UAV platform. The team, comprising Prof Lee Tong Heng, Prof Ben M Chen and Mr Cai Guowei (Research Fellow), garnered the international win for their work on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Their control techniques have achieved top performance in the categories under examination, in accordance with the military standard set by the US Amy Aviation for military rotorcraft.

For the past several years, the team has been working on the design and implementation of a robust automatic flight control system. Elaborating on their research, Prof Chen said: "We have currently expanded our horizons to include cooperative control and coordination of multiple UAVs for indoor as well as urban navigation."

ASCC is a major international control systems event held biennially in Asia. The first conference was held in Tokyo (1994), followed by Seoul (1997), Shanghai (2000), Singapore (2002), Melbourne (2004), Bali (2006), and Hong Kong (2009). These conferences saw hundreds of participants from around the world.


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