Guest Lecture on Drone and Quadrotor Control | ADFA, UNSW Canberra

Guest Lecture on Drone and Quadrotor Control | ADFA, UNSW Canberra
Guest lecture for ZEIT3505 Flight Dynamics and Control at UNSW Canberra
Author
Binh Nguyen
Sep 29, 2026

Delivered an invited guest lecture on drone and quadrotor control to military cadets at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), UNSW Canberra, building on published robotics research and work developing decentralised drone swarm frameworks for defence.

The lecture, From Root Locus to Rotors: How a Canberra autopilot flies a million aircraft, was part of ZEIT3505 Flight Dynamics and Control, linking the classical control theory cadets learn in class to the open-source autopilots flying a million drones today.

Binh Nguyen presenting the title slide of the guest lecture From Root Locus to Rotors
From Root Locus to Rotors: how a Canberra autopilot flies a million aircraft

An honour to bring this expertise to strengthening Australia’s sovereign defence capability.