Postgraduate research students

Talal Asad is a PhD researcher in the Flight Sciences Group, Autonomous Systems & Connectivity Division, James Watt School of Engineering.

My research focuses on rotorcraft flight dynamics and non-linear flight control. I am particularly interested in helicopters and other rotary-wing aircraft, and in how modelling and control methods developed for them can be carried over to UAVs and eVTOL aircraft. My PhD, supervised by Dr Ye Yuan and funded by an EPSRC studentship, integrates aerodynamic modelling directly into flight controller design, with applications including UAV operations in complex wind environments such as offshore wind farms.

I graduated from the University of Glasgow with an MEng in Aerospace Systems

• Dr Ye Yuan