Dr. Luis Mejias

Luis Mejias studied electronic engineering at UNEXPO (Venezuela) obtaining the degree of Electronic Engineer in November 1999. He joined the master program at ETSIT-Universidad Politécnica de Madrid obtaining a Msc. in Network and telecommunication systems. After completing it he moved to DISAM (ETSII) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid where he obtained his doctorate. While completing his PhD he was leading the team in Vision-guided UAV for surveillance and visual inspection. He gained extensive experience with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and in particular Autonomous Helicopter platforms investigating in computer vision techniques for control and navigation of UAVs. Currently he is Lecturer in UAV at ARCAA, Queensland University of Technology.

Current Research

• Multifunctional visual servoing architectures for UAVs
• Forced Landing of UAVs: Vision-based navigation, guidance & control
• Vision-based sense-and avoid, collision avoidance approaches for UAVs

Research Areas

• Computer Vision and Robotics
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Guidance, Navigation & Control
• Computer Networks, Linux
• Telecommunications Systems

Research Projects

• CRC for Spatial Information
• Smart Skies

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