On Thursday at 11:15 am Dr. Mejias (QUT) will give a talk about „Research in Automated Emergency Landing Systems for Unmanned Aircraft". It will take place in the ITR seminar room, Barer Str. 21, 4th floor.

Bio: Luis Mejias studied electronic engineering at UNEXPO (Venezuela) obtaining the degree of Electronic Engineer in November 1999. In 2000, he joined the master program at ETSIT-Universidad Politécnica de Madrid obtaining a Msc. in Networks and Telecommunication Systems in 2001. After completing his master, he moved to DISAM (ETSII) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid where he obtained his doctorate. While completing his PhD he gained extensive experience with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and in particular Autonomous Helicopter platforms investigating in computer vision techniques for Guidance, Control and Navigation of UAVs. He is currently a Senior Lecturer, Researcher and Deputy Director at QUT - Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation (ARCAA).