Professor
Faculty
Haiyang Chao
Ph.D. & Assistant Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
2130 Learned Hall
The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS, 66045
chaohaiyang (AT) ku (DoOT)edu
https://sites.google.com/site/haiyangchao/
Biography
Dr. Haiyang Chao joined the University of Kansas as an Assistant Professor in August, 2013. He has authored or coauthored one book, two book chapters, and more than thirty peer-reviewed research papers. He is the author of the book "Remote Sensing and Actuation Using Unmanned Vehicles" published by Wiley-IEEE Press (LINK). His papers have been cited for more than 500 times according to (Google scholar). Dr. Chao has extensive experiences of designing, programming, and flight testing small unmanned systems for flight control, aviation safety, and remote sensing applications. He has led or participated more than 90 flight test sessions using small subscale aircraft weighing from 4 lbs to 26 lbs. Example flight test topics include close formation flight (5-12 wingspans), optical-flow-aided navigation, low-cost unmanned platform development, fractional order attitude controller, etc. Dr. Chao is one of the key developers of (AggieAir), a low-cost, small UAV platform for remote sensing applications.
Education
B.S. Zhejiang University
M.S. Zhejiang University
Ph.D. Utah State University
Teaching
AE 430 Aerospace Instrumentation (Spring 2014/2015)
AE 752 Linear Multivariable Control (Fall 2014)
AE 759 Estimation and Control of Unmanned Autonomous Systems (Fall 2015)