Journal of Aeronautics & Aerospace Engineering
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Youmin Zhang

Biography

Youmin Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI) at Concordia University, Canada. His main research interests and experience are in the areas of condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant (flight) control systems; cooperative guidance, navigation and control of unmanned aerial/ground vehicles; dynamic systems modeling, estimation, identification and control; and advanced signal processing techniques for diagnosis, prognosis and health management of safety-critical systems and manufacturing processes. He has published 4 books, over 200 journal and conference papers. He is a senior member of AIAA, senior member of IEEE, a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes, and a member of the AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Program Committee (PC) on Unmanned Systems. He is an Editorial Board Member of several international journals and IPC member of many international conferences.

Research Interest

Avionics and Flight Control for Manned and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Spacecrafts/Satellites; Monitoring, Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD), and Fault Tolerant Flight Control Systems (FTFCS); Reliability and Fault Tolerance Techniques for Safety-critical Engineering Systems; Modeling, Simulation, Control, and Diagnosis for Engineering Applications; Filtering, Estimation, Identification and Information Fusion Techniques with Engineering Applications; Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Diagnosis and Control of Machines and Mechatronic Systems; Intelligent and Hybrid Control Systems; Advanced Control Algorithms and Implementation; Real-time, Distributed and Embedded Systems