Personal
- Name
- Dr Luis Mejias Alvarez
- Position(s)
- Lecturer, UAV
Science and Engineering Faculty,
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science,
Robotics and Aerospace Systems - Discipline *
- Aerospace Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 1411
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 1516
- luis.mejias@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
PhD(Robotics and Automation) (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)
- Professional memberships
and associations - IEEE Member
- Member of the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA)
* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Biography
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 Network 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 and in particular Autonomous Helicopter platforms investigating in computer vision techniques for control and navigation of UAVs. He is currently a lecturer and researcher at QUT - Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation (ARCAA).
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Teaching
Teaching areas
- Aircraft Systems and Flight control
- Navigation Systems for Aircraft
- Space Technology.
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Experience
External collaboration
Dr. Luis Mejias and his research team has strong collaborations with:
- Computer Vision Group at Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.
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Publications
- Martinez C, Mejias Alvarez L, Campoy P, (2011) A multi-resolution image alignment technique based on direct methods for pose estimation of aerial vehicles, Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications p542-548
- Lai J, Ford J, Mejias Alvarez L, O'Shea PJ, Walker R, (2011) Detection versus false alarm characterisation of a vision-based airborne dim-target collision detection system, Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications p448-455
- Yang X, Mejias Alvarez L, Garratt M, (2011) Multi-sensor data fusion for UAV navigation during landing operations, Proceedings of the 2011 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2011) p1-10
- Dusha D, Mejias Alvarez LO, Walker RA, (2011) Fixed-wing attitude estimation using temporal tracking of the horizon and optical flow, Journal of Field Robotics p355-372
- Lai J, Mejias Alvarez LO, Ford JJ, (2011) Airborne vision-based collision-detection system, Journal of Field Robotics p137-157
- Mills S, Ford JJ, Mejias Alvarez LO, (2011) Vision based control for fixed wing UAVs inspecting locally linear infrastructure using skid-to-turn maneuvers, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: theory and applications p29-42
- Mondragon IF, Olivares M, Campoy P, Martinez C, Mejias Alvarez LO, (2010) Unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs attitude, height, motion estimation and control using visual systems, Autonomous Robots p17-34
- Eng P, Mejias Alvarez LO, Walker RA, Fitzgerald D, (2010) Guided chaos, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine p90-98
- Gurtner A, Greer D, Glassock R, Mejias Alvarez LO, Walker RA, Boles W, (2009) Investigation of fish-eye lenses for small-UAV aerial photography, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing p709-721
- Mejias Alvarez L, Campoy P, Usher K, Roberts JM, Corke P, (2006) Two seconds to touchdown - vision-based controlled forced landing, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems p3527-3532
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
Awards and recognition
- Type
- International Collaboration
- Reference year
- 2009
- Details
- Recently, Dr. Mejias has been successful in receiving an International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) grant in the 7 European FP of 70,000 (139,700 AUD). This grant, titled International Cooperation Program for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Research and Development (ICPUAS) is in partnership with Polytechnic University of Madrid and Cranfield University, and will allow the exchange of scientist between Australia and Europe.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Developing Novel Concepts for Improved Safety in Aircraft Emergency Situations
- Primary fund type
- Australian Competitive Grants
- Project ID
- DE120100802
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- Emergency Landing, National Airspace, Aircraft Warning Systems
- Title
- Automated vision-based aircraft collision warning technologies
- Primary fund type
- Australian Competitive Grants
- Project ID
- LP100100302
- Start year
- 2010
- Keywords
- Collision Warning, Aerial robotics, National Airspace
