Research Themes
A primary goal of LinkLab is to provide a dynamic infrastructure to support different types of research projects related to future aviation systems and associated technologies. LinkLab encourages an integrated and multi-disciplinary approach across a number of key research themes.
Core Themes
- Autonomous Systems
- Flight Technologies and Platforms
- Distributed and Cooperative Systems
- Human-Machine Interaction
An additional meta-theme which cuts across core research themes is
- Distributed Management and Development
Themes and Sub-Themes
Autonomous Systems
- Hybrid Architectures
- integration of deliberative, reactive and control functionality
- fault tolerance and redundancy
- validation, verification and testing
- robust and secure communication
- real-time data and event flow backbones
- plug-and-play capability and reconfigurable software systems
- Deliberative Functionality
- automated task-based planning
- automated path planning
- on-line diagnosis and execution monitoring
- reasoning and inference systems for decision making
- knowledge representation
- Sensor Fusion and Sensor Technologies
- SLAM - simultaneous localization and mapping
- sensor modeling
- situational awareness support
- sensor fusion technologies
- sense and avoid technologies
Flight Technologies and Platforms
- Avionics Systems
- Navigation Systems
- Sensor Systems
- Design of different physical UAV platforms
- Mini- and Micro-UAV Technologies
Distributed and Cooperative Systems
- Cooperative Robotics and Agent Systems
- Distributed Artificial Intelligence
- Robust and Secure Communication with Efficient Data Transfer in Distributed Environments
- Systems of Systems
- Situational Awareness Support
- Semantic Web Technologies
Human-Machine Interaction
- Adjustable Autonomy
- Mixed Initiative Planning and Scheduling
- Multi-Modal Interfaces