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The Dynamics, Estimation, and Control in Aerospace and Robotics group at McGill University.

Advisor

Prof. James Richard Forbes

Professor, William Dawson Scholar
Department of Mechanical Engineering
McGill University

Prof. James Richard Forbes

James Richard Forbes received the B.A.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (Honours, Co-op) from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, in 2006, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Science and Engineering from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Toronto, ON, in 2008 and 2011, respectively

He is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University, a Member of the Centre for Intelligent Machines, a Member of the Group for Research in Decision Analysis, a Member of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, a Member of the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, and an Associate Academic Member of Mila. He holds a William Dawson Scholar award, and received the McGill Association of Mechanical Engineers Professor of the Year Award in 2016, the Engineering Class of 1944 Outstanding Teaching Award in 2018, the Carrie M. Derick Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching in 2020, the Samuel and Ida Fromson Outstanding Teaching Award in Engineering in 2024, and the inaugural winner of the Donald L. Mordell EUS Teaching Excellence Award in 2026. He is currently a Senior Editor for the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).

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Ph.D. Candidates

Mitchell Cohen

Visual-Inertial SLAM
John Kyungmin Jung

Subsea DVL-Inertial-Visual SLAM
Vassili Korotkine

Sensor Calibration
Arturo Del Castillo

Subsea Navigation using Forward-Looking Sonar
Yanting Zhou

Stability and Control of Haptic Devices
Jonathan Eid

Power Hardware-in-the-loop Interface Design
Junha Yoo

Subsea Reconstruction
Timothy Adams

Uncertainty Characterization for Robust Control
Kyle Biron-Gricken

VIO + GNSS Navigation

M.Sc. Thesis Candidates

Ashley Meagher

Passivity-Based Control of Power Hardware in the Loop (PHIL) Systems
Nicholas Dahdah

UWB Teach and Repeat
Andrew Stirling

VIO + UWB Navigation
Isabel Lougheed

Subsea SLAM using Side-Scan Sonar
Louis-Thomas Roy

Radar-Based Localization and Mapping
Pierre Chamoun

Multi-Sensor Calibration in Unstructured Environments
Mohammad Ghali

Dynamics and Control of Iron Packed-Bed Reactors
Charles Morin

GNSS-Based Navigation
Caileigh Bates

Navigation in Mines
Sabrina Button

Subsea Navigation using a Multi-Line Laser Camera