Haiyang Chao

Dr. Haiyang Chao joined the University of Kansas as an Assistant Professor in August, 2013. He has authored or coauthored one book, two book chapters, and more than forty peer-reviewed research papers. He is the author of the book "Remote Sensing and Actuation Using Unmanned Vehicles" published by Wiley-IEEE Press (LINK). His papers have been cited for more than 2000 times according to (Google scholar). Dr. Chao has extensive experiences of designing, programming, and flight testing small unmanned systems for flight control, aviation safety, and remote sensing applications. He has led or participated more than 90 flight test sessions using small subscale aircraft weighing from 4 lbs to 26 lbs. Example flight test topics include close formation flight (5-12 wingspans), optical-flow-aided navigation, low-cost unmanned platform development, fractional order attitude controller, etc. Dr. Chao is one of the key developers of (AggieAir), a low-cost, small UAV platform for remote sensing applications.