Imraan Faruque

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Education

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering
University of Maryland, 2011

M.S., Aerospace Engineering

University of Maryland, 2010

 

B.S., Aerospace Engineering
Virginia Tech, 2006

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Research Interests

• Biologically-Inspired Flight Control
• Engineered Aerial Autonomy
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Sensing and Feedback for Autonomy
• Human/Autonomy Interaction

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Awards and Recognition

• ONR Young Investigator Award, 2019
• AIAA Hal Andrews Young Engineer/Scientist of the Year Award 2017
• Best in Session, Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference 2012
• Best in Session, American Control Conference 2010
• Second in Session, Graduate Research Interaction Day at University of Maryland 2010
• Best in Session, Graduate Research Interaction Day at University of Maryland 2009
• 1st Place, International Aerial Robotics Championship, 2005

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Professional Memberships

• FAA Integration Pilot Program Choctaw Nation
• AIAA,
• ASME,
• AUVSI,
• SICB,
• EAA,
• AOPA

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Recent Publications

• U. Saxena, M. Dorothy, and I. A. Faruque, “Gust-Aware Flight Control Through DisturbanceGramian Analysis,”AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, Submitted.
• M. A. Billah and I. A. Faruque, “Bio-Inspired Visuomotor Feedback in a Multi-Agent Group/SwarmContext,”IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2020.
• I. A. Faruque, F. D. Muijres, K. MacFarlane, A. Kehlenbeck, and J. S. Humbert, “Identificationof Optimal Feedback Control Rules from Micro-Quadrotor and Insect Flight Trajectories,”BiologicalCybernetics, pp. 1–15, 2018.
• U. Saxena and I. A. Faruque, “A Theoretical Model for the Gust Performance of Closed LoopFlight Control,”Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 2971–2975, 2017.
• K. MacFarlane, I. A. Faruque, and J. S. Humbert, “Power Regulation of Kinematic Control Inputsfor Forward Flying Drosophila,”Acta Mechanica Sinica, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 809–818, 2015.