Advances in Guidance, Navigation and Control
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Dr. Liang Yan holds a Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has worked as a Lecturer at Beijing Institute of Technology, as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, and as Associate Professor and Professor at Beihang University (BUAA). He is currently a Changjiang Distinguished Professor at BUAA. His research mainly focuses on high-performance actuation technology and its applications in robotics and aerospace technology. He is a member of the Technical Committee of the Robotics and Mechatronics Organization, International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM), the Electrical Machines Technical Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and the Mechatronic Technical Committee of the Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has been the Program Chairman and Publication Chairman of more than 10 IEEE/ASME/IET conferences.
Dr. Haibin Duan is currently a full Professor at the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in control theory and engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) in 2005. He was a senior visiting scholar of The University of Suwon (USW) in South Korea (2011). He is the Vice Director of the State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems and the Head of the Bio-Inspired Autonomous Flight Systems Research Group. Prof Duan is the chair of Technical Committee on Guidance, Navigation and Control (TCGNC), Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA), and the chair of Technical Committee on Unmanned Aerial Systems Autonomous Control (TCUASAC), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). He is also a visiting research fellow with Peng Cheng Laboratory, China. Prof. Duan received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China in 2014. He is also enrolled in the Chang Jiang Scholars Program of China, Scientific and Technological Innovation Leading Talent of “Ten Thousand Plan”-National High Level Talents Special Support Plan, and Top-Notch Young Talents Program of China. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. Prof. Duan has authored or co-authored more than 70 publications. His current research interests are bio-inspired intelligence, and multi-UAV autonomous swarm control.