Advisors
Soulaimane Berkane (PhD, P.Eng, SMIEEE) received his Engineering and M.Sc. degrees in Automatic Control from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique (Algeria) in 2013. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering (Robotics & Control) from the University of Western Ontario (Canada) in 2018. In 2017, he received the award of Excellence in Graduate Research at the University of Western Ontario. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) and at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) between 2018 and 2019. He is currently an assistant professor at the Université du Québec en Outaouais and an adjunct professor at Lakehead University.
PhD Students
Oussama Sifour is a PhD student at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. He is working towards the modelling and control of insect-like micro drones using methods from geometric control on Lie groups and machine learning. He is expected to defend his PhD in Fall 2024.
Abdessamed Guerraiche is a PhD student at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. He is working towards the development of sensor-based guidance and control algorithms for unmanned aerial vehicles navigating in unknown environments. He is expected to defend his PhD in Summer 2026.
Lyes Smail is a PhD student at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. He is working towards the design and control of novel 6 DoF omnicopter drones. He is expected to defend his PhD in Fall 2026.
Master Students
Melone Nyoba is working towards the development of anti-jamming and anti-spoofing techniques for GNSS/INS navigation.
Undergrad Students
- Aneesh S Srivasta, IIT Madras (India), GRI Mitacs, Summer 2023: working on UWB-aided inertial navigation systems for indoor applications.
- Dornala Hamsika, IIT Madras (India), GRI Mitacs, Summer 2023: working on vision-based obstacle avoidance for UAVs.
- Youssef Besrour, France, GRI Mitacs, Summer 2023: working on vision-based obstacle avoidance for UAVs.