Aviation Academic Programs
Associate Professor
Qualification: Ph.D. in Embedding human expert cognition and real-time trajectory planning in autonomous UAS, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Research Interest:
- Emerging air transport technologies such as Urban Air Mobility
- Intelligent aerial surveillance to enhance aviation security
- Enhancement of aircraft navigation systems to improve safety and sustainability within aviation
Research Grants:
- Research Title: Application of Wireless Sensor Networks for Surveillance and enhancing security of Critical Infastructure such as airports.
Research Funding: TSB (now InnovateUK)
Grant: Approximately £93,000 for 1 year, 2014
Role: Co-investigator - Research Title: Investigation of enabling autonomous flight capabilities onboard commercial aircraft
Research Funding: UWE Early Career Researchers Grant
Grant: Approximately £14,000 for 1 year, 2013
Role: Principal investigator
- Lone, A.; Nemati, H.; Zhu, Q.; Mercorelli, P.; Narayan, P. “U-model-based dynamic inversion control for quadrotor UAV systems,” in Modeling, Identification, and Control for Cyber- Physical Systems Towards Industry 4.0, pp. 293-309, 2024.
- Li, R.; Zhu, Q.; Zhang, W.; Yue, X.; Narayan, P. “An improved U-control design for nonlinear systems represented by input/output differential models with a disturbance observer,” in International Journal of Control, vol. 96, no. 11, pp. 2737-2748, 2023.
- Li, R.; Zhu, Q.; Nemati, H.; Yue, X.; Narayan, P. “Trajectory tracking of a quadrotor using extend state observer based U-model enhanced double sliding mode control,” in Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 360, no. 4, pp. 3520-3544, 2023.
- Chen, J.; Gan, M.; Zhu, Q.; Narayan, P.; Liu, Y., “Robust Standard Gradient Descent Algorithm for ARX Models Using Aitken Acceleration Technique,” in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 52, no. 9, pp. 9646-9655, 2022.
- Li, R.; Zhu, Q.; Yang, J.; Narayan, P.; Yue, X., “Disturbance-observer-based u-control (Dobuc) for nonlinear dynamic systems,” in Entropy, vol. 23, no. 12, 2021.
- Li, R.; Zhu, Q.; Narayan, P.; Yue, A.; Yao, Y.; Deng, M. “U-model-based two-degree-of-freedom internal model control of nonlinear dynamic systems,” in Entropy, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 1-23, 2021.
- Rasoolinasab, S.; Mobayen, S.; Fekih, A.; Narayan, P.; Yao, Y. “A composite feedback approach to stabilize nonholonomic systems with time varying time delays and nonlinear disturbances,” in ISA Transactions, vol. 101, pp. 177-188, 2020.
- Chen, J.; Zhu, Q.; Hu, M.; Guo, L.; Narayan, P. “Improved gradient descent algorithms for time-delay rational state-space systems: intelligent search method and momentum method,” in Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 101, no. 1, pp. 361-373, 2020.
- Zhang, W.; Zhu, Q.; Mobayen, S.; Yan, H.; Qiu, J.; Narayan, P. “U -Model and U -Control Methodology for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems,” in Complexity, vol. 2020, 2020.
- Khannoussi, A.; Olteanu, A.-L.; Labreuche, C.; Narayan, P.; Dezan, C.; Diguet, J.-P.; Petit-Frère, J.; Meyer, P. “Integrating operators? preferences into decisions of unmanned aerial vehicles: Multi-layer decision engine and incremental preference elicitation,” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11834 LNAI, pp. 49-64, 2019.
- Abdessemed, C.; Yao, Y.; Bouferrouk, A.; Narayan, P. “Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing,” in International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1117-1133, 2018.
- Zhu, Q.; Zhao, D.; Zhang, S.; Narayan, P. “U-model enhanced dynamic control of a heavy oil pyrolysis cracking furnace,” in IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 577-586, 2018.
- Chen, H.; Lin, P.; Emrith, K.; Narayan, P.; Yao, Y. “Ensemble-empirical-mode-decomposition based micro-Doppler signal separation and classification,” in International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 253-263, 2017.
- Narayan, P.; Meyer, P.; Campbell, D. “Embedding human expert cognition into autonomous UAS trajectory planning,” in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 530-541, 2013.
- Gonzalez, F.; Castro, M.P.G.; Narayan, P.; Walker, R.; Zeller, L. “Development of an autonomous unmanned aerial system to collect time-stamped samples from the atmosphere and localize potential pathogen sources,” in Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 961-976, 2011.