Flight dynamics laboratory basically concerns dynamics and its application to aircraft, while its research interest expands including control engineering, system engineering and information technology. Application and system oriented research and education are major characteristics of the laboratory.
The laboratory challenges widening application of UAVs(unmanned aerial vehicle) by using miniaturized high-performance onboard computers and digital avionics. One of the on-going development projects is UAV systems for aerial geomagnetic survey in Afar area, Ethipoia. The vehicles were developed in our laboratory, and they have been used and collected precious aeromagnetic data in Afar in 2019.The aeromagnetic survey is supposed to be done in 2023 again. Another project is a UAV system which responds to the demand of an aerosol researchers to recover aerosol sample from a high altitude. The UAV has been used in Antarctica in 2013, 2015, 2020, and 2022 as one of the projects of Japan Antarctic Research Expedition. Students can learn many things in trying to solve various problems raised in the development.
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The Main Research Topics
Research and Development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Scientific Missions
Autonomous Flight Path Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Machine Intelligence of Future Flight Control for Test Pilot-in-a-Box
Air Traffic Flow Management for Manned and Unmanned Aircraft