Kai-Yuan Cai Author

Quan Quan received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), China in 2004 and 2010, respectively. He has been an associate professor at Beihang University since 2013. He is also the director of reliable flight control group at Beihang University (rfly.buaa.edu.cn). His main research interests include reliable flight control and vision-based navigation. To date he has published 45 peer-reviewed journal papers, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Mechatronics, Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Reliability and AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. He is the author of Introduction to Multicopter Design and Control (Singapore, Springer, 2017).

Kai-Yuan Cai was born in April 1965. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Beijing, China, in 1984, 1987, and 1991, respectively. He is a Cheung Kong Scholar (Chair Professor) appointed by the Ministry of Education of China in 1999. He has been a full Professor at Beihang University since 1995. He is the author of Software Defect and Operational Profile Modeling (Boston, MA: Kluwer, 1998), Introduction to Fuzzy Reliability (Boston, MA: Kluwer, 1996), and Elements of Software Reliability Engineering [Beijing, China: Tshinghua Univ. Press, 1995 (in Chinese)].