To equip students with the ability to model and control an unmanned aerial vehicle and to develop a mission-oriented aerial robot by integrating autonomous flight with AI-based perception and decision capabilities.

This course addresses the design, modeling, control and autonomous flight of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV/drone), blending them with artificial intelligence methods. The aerodynamics and dynamic model of multirotor and fixed-wing platforms, flight control systems, sensor fusion and state estimation, autonomous navigation, trajectory planning, vision-based perception and learning-based (reinforcement learning) control are studied in an applied manner.