Erlend Magnus Lervik Coates
Erlend Magnus Lervik Coates
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Cybernetics Department of ICT and Natural SciencesBackground and activities
Assistant professor of automation and intelligent systems at the Department of ICT and Natural Sciences, Ålesund. Research connected to the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab (https://www.ntnu.edu/iir/cps).
Teaching 2021/22:
- IELEA2002 - Control Engineering
https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/IELEA2002/2021 - AIS2102 - Dynamical Systems
https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/AIS2102
Research:
PhD project: "Nonlinear Autopilot Design for Extended Flight Envelopes and Operation of Fixed-Wing UAVs in Extreme Conditions" (anticipated graduation: 2022).
PhD work funded through the Autofly project by the Research Council of Norway, and associated with NTNU AMOS and the NTNU UAV-lab.
Supervisors: Thor I. Fossen and Tor Arne Johansen, Department of Engineering Cybernetics.
Research assistant (vit. ass.) in the course TTK4215 - Adaptive Control (2017-2020). https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/TTK4215
Member of NTNU COVID-19 Task Force (2020):
https://www.ntnu.edu/biotechnology/ntnu-covid-19
Courses
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2021) Geometric Reduced-Attitude Control of Fixed-Wing UAVs. Applied Sciences. vol. 11 (7).
- (2020) Reduced-Attitude Control of Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Geometric Methods on the Two-Sphere. IFAC-PapersOnLine. vol. 53 (2).
- (2020) Hybrid Control of Fixed-Wing UAVs for Large-Angle Attitude Maneuvers on the Two-Sphere. IFAC-PapersOnLine. vol. 53 (2).
Part of book/report
- (2019) Deep Reinforcement Learning Attitude Control of Fixed Wing UAVs Using Proximal Policy Optimization. 2019 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS).
- (2019) Propulsion System Modeling for Small Fixed Wing UAVs. 2019 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS).