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• Jan 6, 2024. I am chairing SD-08, Special Session: Structural Dynamics and Crashworthiness of Unconventional Aircraft, and am co-chairing GNC-32, Control Theory for Aerospace Applications II at AIAA SciTech 2024.

• Jan 6, 2024. I am appointed as the judge of AIAA GNC-36, Session Title: Graduate Student Paper Competition.

• Nov 1, 2024. Tingyu Zhang joins our research group as a PhD. Very warm welcome, Tingyu!

• Oct 31, 2023. I am invited to visit the Guidance Navigation and Control Section at European Space Agency - ESA.

• Oct 9, 2023. I am tenured! 🎉🎉🎉. I am promoted to Assistant Professor 1 (UD1) in the Dutch University System.

• May 1, 2023. I am elected as a Senior Member of AIAA, recommended by two AIAA Associate Fellows.

• April 20, 2023. I am elected to the AIAA Technical Committee on Guidance, Navigation and Control (AIAA-GNC-TC).

• February 1, 2022. I am elected as the Special Issue Editor of the open-access journal MDPI Actuators on From Theory to Practice: Incremental Nonlinear Control. I warmly invite you to submit via this link before August 30th, 2023.

• January 1, 2023. I am going to chair a Special Session “Structural Dynamics and Crashworthiness of Unconventional Aircraft” at AIAA SciTech 2024. Warmly invite you to submit!

• November 1, 2022. Our EU Clean Aviation proposal has been funded! Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉 There will be two postdoctoral vacancies released soon. If you have experience in control algorithm design for nonlinear and high-order systems and/or flexible aircraft control, please do not hesitate to contact me.

• October 20, 2022. Our paper “Overview of the SmartX Wing Technology Integrator” has been published by the open-access journal MDPI Actuators! Congratulations!

• October 12, 2022. Our paper “On-Line Black-Box Aerodynamic Performance Optimization for a Morphing Wing With Distributed Sensing and Control” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology! This paper focuses on the wind tunnel experiment of our morphing wing optimization framework. Congratulations!

• October 11, 2022. I am elected as the Special Issue Editor of the open-access journal MDPI Actuators. All research papers related to Fault-Tolerant Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are welcome! Please submit via this link before June 1st, 2023.

• September 20, 2022. Our paper “Black-Box Online Aerodynamic Performance Optimization for a Seamless Wing with Distributed Morphing” has been accepted by Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics! Congratulations!

• September 1, 2022. Matthias Wuestenhagen joins our research group as a PhD. Matthias is also a research associate at the Institute of System Dynamics and Control, German Aerospace Center (DLR). Very warm welcome, Matthias!

• September 1, 2022. Our paper “Active Fault-Tolerant Incremental Sliding-Mode Flight Control Against Control Reversal” has been accepted by Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics! Congratulations!

• June 21, 2022. Our proposal “Flying V Flight Control” has been funded by Dutch Research Council. One postdoc and two PhD positions have been funded! 🎉🎉🎉 If you are interested in the topic and in doing research at TU Delft, please feel free to contact me.

• June 18, 2022. I have been selected as a Technical Committee of the International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (IFASD) 2024, which will be in Den Haag.

• June 17, 2022. We have successfully presented two papers on the International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (IFASD).

• June 13, 2022. Our paper “Adaptive Nonlinear Incremental Flight Control for Systems with Unknown Control Effectiveness” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems! Congratulations!

• May 4, 2022. Our paper “Vision-Based Nonlinear Incremental Control for A Morphing Wing with Mechanical Imperfections” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems! Congratulations!

• May 20, 2022. That was a great pleasure and honour to present our SmartX-Alpha morphing wing in the TU Delft Dynamic Lab. The lab tour vedio is publicly available here.

• May 19, 2022. I have successfully finished my three invitated lectures on Flight Dynamics and Control at the University of Liege. Lecture details can be found here.

• May 12, 2022. I have successfully obtained the certificate for the TU Delft Tenure Track Personal development programme.

• February 25, 2022. Srikanth won the third price of the PhD pitch competition! Congratulations Srikanth!

• February 15, 2022. Ir. Roderick Schildkamp joins our research group as a PhD student. Welcome, Roderick!

• January 7, 2022. Our paper “Aeroelastic Wing Demonstrator with a Distributed and Decentralized Control Architecture” has won the Jefferson Goblet Student Paper Award at the AIAA SciTech 2022. Congratulations dear Tigran!

• January 3, 2022. We publish four papers at the AIAA SciTech 2022 conference! The papers have been added to the corresponding projects.

• December 9, 2021. I am selected as the Excellent Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics Reviewer of 2021. Thank you very much dear JGCD editors!

• December 07, 2021. Our paper “Event-Triggered Intelligent Critic Control with Input Constraints Applied to a Nonlinear Aeroelastic System” is accepted by Aerospace Science and Technology. Congratulations Bo!

• December 30, 2021. Our paper “Incremental Fault-tolerant Control for a Hybrid Quad-plane UAV Subjected to a Complete Rotor Loss” is accepted by Aerospace Science and Technology. Congratulations Sihao!

• September 29, 2021. After passing four training modules and one oral exam, I have successfully obtained the Certificate for University Teaching Qualification.

• September 06, 2021. Our paper “Incremental Fault-tolerant Control for a Hybrid Quad-plane UAV Subjected to a Complete Rotor Loss” is accepted by Aerospace Science and Technology. Congratulations Sihao!

• September 1, 2021. Ir. Srikanth Vasudevan joins our research group as a PhD student. Welcome, Srikanth!

• October 27, 2021, Oscar Ruland successfully defends his MSc thesis “Online Black-box Shape Optimization for a Seamless Active Morphing Wing”. Congratulations dear Oscar!

• June 29, 2021. Our paper “Seamless Active Morphing Wing Simultaneous Gust and Maneuver Load Alleviation” is accepted by Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Congratulations!

• March 12, 2021. Our paper “Nonlinear Incremental Control for Flexible Aircraft Trajectory Tracking and Load Alleviation” is accepted by Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Congratulations!

• March 1, 2021. Dr. Jing Chang joins our research group as a visiting scholar. Welcome, Jing!

• January 11, 2021. We publish two papers at the AIAA SciTech 2021 conference! The papers have been added to the corresponding projects.

• September 15, 2021. Our SmartX-Alpha morphing wing won the Hardware Competition at the ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems.

• August 6, 2020. Our paper “Incremental Nonlinear Fault-Tolerant Control of a Quadrotor With Complete Loss of Two Opposing Rotors” is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). Congratulations Sihao!

• May 1, 2020. Join TU Delft Aerospace Engineering as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor.