FLIGHT DYNAMICS AND CONTROL
LABORATORY

in Department of Aerospace Engineering @ Seoul National University

RESEARCH AREA

Flight Dynamics and Control Laboratory (FDCL) performs research on the topics closely related to guidance and control systems for aerospace vehicles. Experimental as well as theoretical research is conducted in the areas of aircraft/spacecraft attitude controller design, aircraft vision-based landing and collision avoidance, guidance and control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), missile guidance and control, launch vehicle trajectory optimization, formation flying of multiple UAV or Satellite, etc. Experimental facility include various fixed-wing unmanned aircraft, rotor-craft (quad-rotor & helicopters), and HILS system.

[Guidance, Navigation, and Control Algorithm for Lunar Orbiter]

[Missile Guidance]

[Model Predictive Control for Terrain-following Flight]

[Experimental Facility]

PROJECT

산학과제

한국항공우주산업_유무인 복합운용 소형 무인기 제어시스템 개발 등

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국방과학연구소

국방과학연구소_ 재사용 무인 우주비행체의 다목적 궤적설계 등

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국책연구기관

한국항공우주연구원_스마트무인기 자율비행 지능제어 기술개발 등

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재단(한국연구재단 등)

한국과학재단_무인항공기의 자동이착륙기술 개발 등

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ADVISOR

Prof. Youdan Kim

Dr. Youdan Kim is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Seoul National University in 1983 and 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1990, respectively. Prior to joining SNU at 1992, he was a Research Associate at Texas A&M University. He has graduated a total of 34 Ph.D. and 86 M.S. students from 1992 to present (Feb. 2018). He was the director of the Institute of Advanced Aerospace Technology from 2011 to 2013, and He is a Associate Fellow of AIAA, and is a Senior Member of IEEE.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Missile Autopilot Design via Neural Koopman Embedding

Youngjun Lee, Jinrae Kim, and Youdan Kim
2025
Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, accepted for publication, 2025.

Control Barrier Function Based Terrain and Path Following Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Considering Attitude Constraint

Hyeong-gwan Kang, and Youdan Kim
2025
The Aeronautical Journal, accepted for publication, 2025.

Sliding Surface-Based Integral Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Tracking Control of Quadcopters Considering Uncertainties

Hanna Lee, Jinrae Kim, and Youdan Kim
2025
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, accepted for publication, Vol. 61, No. 2, 2025, pp. 1677-1691.
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Media

FDCL in the Press

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