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Erlend Magnus Lervik Coates

Erlend Magnus Lervik Coates

Assistant Professor
Department of ICT and Natural Sciences
Department of Engineering Cybernetics

erlend.coates@ntnu.no
Ankeret, B314, Ålesund
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About Publications

About

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:

  • AIS2002 - Control Engineering 
    https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/AIS2002
  • 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" (defence 7/9 - 2023).

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

Publications

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2023

  • Løw-Hansen, Bogdan; Müller, Nicolas Carlo; Coates, Erlend Magnus Lervik; Johansen, Tor Arne; Hann, Richard. (2023) Identification of an Electric UAV Propulsion System in Icing Conditions. SAE technical paper series
    Academic article

2022

  • Coates, Erlend M.; Reinhardt, Dirk Peter; Gryte, Kristoffer; Johansen, Tor Arne. (2022) Toward Nonlinear Flight Control for Fixed-Wing UAVs: System Architecture, Field Experiments, and Lessons Learned. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
    Academic article

2021

  • Coates, Erlend M.; Fossen, Thor I.. (2021) Geometric Reduced-Attitude Control of Fixed-Wing UAVs. Applied Sciences
    Academic article
  • Coates, Erlend M.; Griffiths, Jenny Bogen; Johansen, Tor Arne. (2021) Robust Reduced-Attitude Control of Fixed-Wing UAVs using a Generalized Multivariable Super-Twisting Algorithm. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
    Academic article

2020

  • Coates, Erlend Magnus Lervik; Reinhardt, Dirk Peter; Fossen, Thor I.. (2020) Reduced-Attitude Control of Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Geometric Methods on the Two-Sphere. IFAC-PapersOnLine
    Academic article
  • Reinhardt, Dirk Peter; Coates, Erlend Magnus Lervik; Johansen, Tor Arne. (2020) Hybrid Control of Fixed-Wing UAVs for Large-Angle Attitude Maneuvers on the Two-Sphere. IFAC-PapersOnLine
    Academic article

2019

  • Coates, Erlend Magnus Lervik; Wenz, Andreas Wolfgang; Gryte, Kristoffer; Johansen, Tor Arne. (2019) Propulsion System Modeling for Small Fixed Wing UAVs. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Bøhn, Eivind Eigil; Coates, Erlend Magnus Lervik; Moe, Signe; Johansen, Tor Arne. (2019) Deep Reinforcement Learning Attitude Control of Fixed Wing UAVs Using Proximal Policy Optimization. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Journal publications

  • Løw-Hansen, Bogdan; Müller, Nicolas Carlo; Coates, Erlend Magnus Lervik; Johansen, Tor Arne; Hann, Richard. (2023) Identification of an Electric UAV Propulsion System in Icing Conditions. SAE technical paper series
    Academic article
  • Coates, Erlend M.; Reinhardt, Dirk Peter; Gryte, Kristoffer; Johansen, Tor Arne. (2022) Toward Nonlinear Flight Control for Fixed-Wing UAVs: System Architecture, Field Experiments, and Lessons Learned. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
    Academic article
  • Coates, Erlend M.; Fossen, Thor I.. (2021) Geometric Reduced-Attitude Control of Fixed-Wing UAVs. Applied Sciences
    Academic article
  • Coates, Erlend M.; Griffiths, Jenny Bogen; Johansen, Tor Arne. (2021) Robust Reduced-Attitude Control of Fixed-Wing UAVs using a Generalized Multivariable Super-Twisting Algorithm. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
    Academic article
  • Coates, Erlend Magnus Lervik; Reinhardt, Dirk Peter; Fossen, Thor I.. (2020) Reduced-Attitude Control of Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Geometric Methods on the Two-Sphere. IFAC-PapersOnLine
    Academic article
  • Reinhardt, Dirk Peter; Coates, Erlend Magnus Lervik; Johansen, Tor Arne. (2020) Hybrid Control of Fixed-Wing UAVs for Large-Angle Attitude Maneuvers on the Two-Sphere. IFAC-PapersOnLine
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Coates, Erlend Magnus Lervik; Wenz, Andreas Wolfgang; Gryte, Kristoffer; Johansen, Tor Arne. (2019) Propulsion System Modeling for Small Fixed Wing UAVs. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Bøhn, Eivind Eigil; Coates, Erlend Magnus Lervik; Moe, Signe; Johansen, Tor Arne. (2019) Deep Reinforcement Learning Attitude Control of Fixed Wing UAVs Using Proximal Policy Optimization. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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