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PolyU’s 3rd Design, Build, and Fly (DBF) Team representing PolyU at American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Design-Build and Fly Competition

PolyU’s 3rd Design, Build, and Fly (DBF) Team representing PolyU at American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Design-Build and Fly Competition We are AEOLUS, an RC Aeromodelling Team representing PolyU at American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Design/Build/Fly Competition every year. This contest lets engineering students taste the real-world design experience by providing an opportunity to apply their knowledge practically. The teams are expected to design an unmanned, electric-powered, radio-controlled aircraft that can best achieve the ‘missions’ assigned. The missions and rules will be modified each year to encourage innovation and maintain fresh design challenge for the novel participants. Such a measure ensures the implementation of critical thinking and the originality of the aircraft designed each year. As a team who enjoys evaluating practical aspects of mechanical theories and the laws of physics to understand their real-world applicability, we are strongly attracted to the opportunities provided by the AIAA DBF Competition. Our team has extended knowledge of aircraft technologies, especially in Aerodynamics, Flight Mechanics, Structure, and Material. We see this competition as a perfect platform for us to test our own ideas in manufacturing an RC aircraft in order to make palpable progression in our subject area. Our long-term goal is to develop the most efficient manufacturing methods and techniques as we believe that the real value of competition lies in applying the knowledge to the real-world and benefit mankind.     Email: aiaabdf.aae@connect.polyu.edu.hk   Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/aeolus_polyu/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/aeolus.polyu/ LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aeolus-polyu/

Two Days University Experience Programme "From Physics and ICT to Engineering"

【Two Days University Experience Programme (Online)】 Ir. Professor Simon Yu represented AAE to join the Two Days University Experience Programme "From Physics and ICT to Engineering".  He delivered an online lecture on Aircraft Force and Motion and shared his research experience.  It was successfully conducted on 4 August 2020.  Participants gained a lot of fundamental aircraft knowledge.

Joint laboratory to explore innovation in autonomous vehicles

Excel x Impact - JUN 2020 ISSUE 1 Published by PolyU's Communications and Public Affairs Office

ATE alumni WONG Kwok Ting was awarded HKIE LTD Best Student Paper Awards 2018

Our alumni WONG Kwok Ting (ATE) was awarded HKIE LTD Best Student Paper Awards 2018 More details at newly published HKIE LTD Annual Report 2019 http://www.hkie.org.hk/…/an…/Annual%20Report_LT_20200504.pdf (Page 11).

AAE Research Student Won Best Student Paper Award in ION GNSS 2019

AAE Research Student Won Best Student Paper Award in ION GNSS+ 2019 Date: 20 September 2019 Venue: Hyatt Regency Miami, Miami, Florida, U.S. Mr Guohao Zhang, our Research Student supervised by Dr Li-Ta Hsu, won the Student Paper Award for the paper “3D Mapping Aided GNSS-Based Cooperative Positioning Using Factor Graph Optimization” presented at the ION GNSS+ 2019, the 32nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation on 19 September 2019. There only 4 winners out of all the papers submitted. The improved paper is also accepted and published in IEEE transaction on intelligent transportation systems. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9082815 The Satellite Division awarded four students with Student Paper Awards. Recognized industry and academic experts selected winners. (left to right) Alex Minetto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Surabhi Guruprasad, York University, Canada; Jiang Guo, Wuhan University, China; and Guohao Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. ION GNSS+ is the world's largest technical meeting and showcase of GNSS technology, products and services. This year's conference will bring together international leaders in GNSS and related positioning, navigation and timing fields to present new research, introduce new technologies, discuss current policy, demonstrate products and exchange ideas. [1] [1] https://www.ion.org/

AAE Student Received Boeing/Cathay Pacific/HAESL Internship Programme 2019/2020

Congratulations to Max Lee for receiving the highly competitive Boeing/Cathay Pacific/HAESL internship programme 2019/2020! Max is now undertaking a Boeing engineering internship in the Seat Integration Team under the guidance and supervision of mentors who have a strong engineering track record and experience in aviation.   The Boeing/Cathay Pacific/HAESL internship is a 12-month industrial training scheme aimed to provide selected Hong Kong students to work in three of the world’s most renowned and respected companies in the aviation industry. Ten candidates from local universities were shortlisted among the applicants. They were invited to attend a one-day assessment consisting of group exercises, presentations and individual interviews using a rigorous selection process. The two interns selected this year will spend 6 months at Boeing (Renton, Washington, USA) and 6 months in Cathay Pacific and HAESL in Hong Kong.

PolyU and Guangzhou & Chinese Academy of Sciences (GZIS) launch a joint laboratory for collaborative study in “Collaborative Communication, Navigation, Positioning and Sensing for Intelligent Vehicles”

Starting from 20 March 2020, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Institute of Software Application Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GZIS) have agreed to jointly build a "Joint Laboratory of Collaborative Communication, Navigation, Positioning and Sensing ". Based on the joint laboratory, the two parties will give play to their respective advantages, and jointly carry out multi-faceted cooperation in intelligent navigation and unmanned vehicle communication and positioning, vehicle networking, and vehicle-road collaborative sensing technologies and equipment. GZIS is one of the seven governing units of the Guangzhou Intelligent Connected Vehicle Demonstration Area Operation Center. The Intelligent Transportation Laboratory under it focuses on the key technologies of V2X vehicle-road collaborative sensing and control, and intelligent connected vehicles in a structured environment. Integrated demonstration applications. A number of independent intellectual property rights have been developed in the early stages, including vehicle-road collaboration protocol stacks, roadside traffic participant fusion positioning algorithms, vehicle-road collaborative roadside / vehicle communication terminal equipment, and intelligent networked automobile road test data acquisition terminal equipment. Scientific and technological achievements. The PolyU side will be led by Dr Li-Ta Hsu, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Division of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, to carry out technical cooperation. Dr Hsu is a technical representative of the Institute of Navigation (ION), US and an associate fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN), UK. The research group has carried out in-depth scientific research in the areas of unmanned vehicle multi-sensor fusion positioning, multi-vehicle collaborative positioning and sensing, and smartphone GNSS positioning.