2019年4月17日下午，英国拉夫堡大学Wen-Hua Chen教授应邀在将军路校区自动化学院4号507会议室做题为“Autonomous Environment Monitoring using Robots/Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”的学术报告。报告由南京航空航天大学自动化学院副院长陈谋教授主持，自动化学院部分师生参加了学术报告会。
Chen教授首先对无人机与无人车应用场景做了简要介绍，指出了应用阶段存在的一些问题，并引入了Chen教授团队的当前研究方向。随后，他以无人机为例，描述了无人机结构中的研究重点。接着，Chen教授结合无人机运动方向调节的问题，深入浅出的介绍了他们团队在该领域的最新研究成果，并展示了实际应用的效果。最后，Chen教授对无人机与无人车的应用前景与未来研究方向提出了展望。
报告结束后，Chen教授与参会师生针对报告内容进行了热烈的讨论，对师生们提出的问题给予了详细的解答，并与部分师生代表拍照留念。
报告人简介：
Dr Wen-Hua Chen holds Professor in Autonomous Vehicles in the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at Loughborough University where he is the founder and the lead of Loughborough University Centre for Autonomous Systems. He is also the Head of Control and Reliability Research Group. Prof. Chen has a considerable experience in control, signal processing and artificial intelligence and their applications in aerospace systems. In the last ten years, he has been spending most of his effort in development and application of unmanned aircraft system technologies, covering most of the aspects from autopilots, situational awareness, decision making to verification, to driverless cars, remote sensing for precision agriculture and environment monitoring. His unmanned vehicles related research is widely supported by the government and industry. Prof. Chen has published over 250 papers with more than international journal papers. He is a Chartered Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK.
