01 / 03 Welcome! I'm

JAYDEN
DONGWOO LEE

Guidance, navigation, and control for aerial vehicles that stay safe when models fail, components break, or GNSS disappears.

From algorithms to flight hardware.

Flight experiments
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Oral presentation at ION Pacific PNT 2026, Honolulu IFAC World Congress 2026, Busan Poster at ICROS 2026
02 / 03 Talks

Sharing the work

Recent presentations on GNSS-denied navigation with quantum magnetometers, data-driven control, and fault-tolerant flight.

ION Pacific PNT 2026 · Honolulu
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Ph.D. defense with the eVTOL test vehicle Research team with the test vehicle
03 / 03 People

From the lab
to the field

Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, and the research team behind the flight tests.

Ph.D. defense, KAIST

Jayden Dongwoo Lee

Postdoctoral Researcher, AITA InnoCORE, Department of Aerospace Engineering, KAIST

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N27 Building, Room 4117

KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu

Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea

cinco125@gmail.com

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the AITA InnoCORE program at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, KAIST. I received my Ph.D. from KAIST under Prof. Hyochoong Bang, and my dissertation received the KAIST College of Engineering Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award (2026).

I work on guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) for aerial vehicles, with a focus on keeping them safe when the model is wrong, a component fails, or GNSS is unavailable. My research has three parts:

  • AI-based guidance and control: learning vehicle dynamics with Gaussian processes, SINDy, and reinforcement learning, and building adaptive and predictive controllers on top of them.
  • Fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control: detecting and isolating actuator and sensor faults in multirotors, eVTOL, and UAM, and reconfiguring the controller in flight.
  • GNSS-denied navigation: factor graph optimization with quantum magnetometers and magnetic-anomaly maps for navigation without satellite signals.

I validate these methods on hardware, including custom flight control computers, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and flight tests on multirotor, eVTOL, and fixed-wing platforms. I received my B.S. from UNIST and my M.S. and Ph.D. from KAIST, and during graduate school I also worked as an AI research engineer at Hanyoung Nux (2021–2024).

I have published 23 SCI(E) journal articles (including accepted papers), filed 4 patent applications, and received 10 paper awards. See the research and publications pages. Feel free to reach out.

Research Highlights

Data-driven FTC for eVTOL: experiment
Fault Diagnosis & FTC
Data-driven FTC for eVTOL: experiment

Data-driven modeling and fault detection with an actuator fault injected in flight.

Fault Diagnosis & FTC
eVTOL fault-tolerant control: flight test

Thrust reallocation across eight motors after an inner-motor failure. Also: outer-motor failure.

Fault-tolerant control of a coaxial dodecacopter
Fault Diagnosis & FTC
Fault-tolerant control allocation for a dodecacopter

QP-based control allocation validated on a coaxial dodecacopter test jig.

SINDy-based MPC for multirotor collision avoidance
AI-based G&C
SINDy-based MPC for collision avoidance

Model predictive control on a dynamics model identified from flight data.

Hoverbike flight test
System Integration & Flight Test
Hoverbike GNC integration and auto-landing

GNC algorithm and hardware integration on a full-scale hoverbike, with auto-landing flight tests.

Attitude control of a flexible spacecraft
Space Systems
Flexible spacecraft attitude control

Adaptive prescribed performance control with vibration suppression.

News

Oct 08, 2026 Our paper on LiDAR-intensity-based point cloud registration for on-orbit proximity operations has been accepted to the Journal of Aerospace Information Systems.
Sep 25, 2026 Our paper on reinforcement-learning-based error-gated σ-modification adaptive control for missile autopilots has been accepted to the International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS).
Sep 07, 2026 Our paper Data-Driven Fault Detection and Diagnosis for eVTOL Systems Using SINDy is now available in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (Early Access).
May 20, 2026 Presented Factor Graph Optimization-Based Magnetic Navigation Using a Quantum Magnetometer at the IPNT 2026 conference in Seoul.
Apr 20, 2026 Gave an oral presentation at ION Pacific PNT 2026 in Honolulu on federated EKF-based quantum-magnetometer navigation (more).

Service

Reviewer · Journals
IEEE TAESIEEE RA-LIJCASIJASSAerospaceActuatorsChinese J. AeronauticsJ. Franklin InstituteNonlinear DynamicsProc. IMechE Part GRobotics and Computer-Integrated ManufacturingKnowledge-Based SystemsComplex & Intelligent SystemsScientific ReportsEnergy
Reviewer · Conferences
IEEE CDCACCICRAIROSIFAC World CongressAIAA SciTechICUASICCASAPISATURRiTA

Selected Publications

  1. IEEE TAES
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    Data-Driven Fault Detection and Diagnosis for eVTOL Systems Using SINDy
    Jayden Dongwoo Lee and Hyochoong Bang
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2026
    Early Access
    Fault Diagnosis & FTC SINDy eVTOL
  1. AST
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    Sparse Online Gaussian Process Regression-based Robust Nonlinear Dynamics Inversion for Multirotor with Forward Flight Ground Effect
    Jayden Dongwoo Lee, Youngjae Kim, Lamsu Kim, and 2 more authors
    Aerospace Science and Technology, 2025
    AI-based G&C Gaussian Process NDI
  1. AST
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    Gaussian Process-based State Derivative Estimator with Temporal Input in Incremental Flight Control Design
    Lamsu Kim, Jayden Dongwoo Lee, Natnael S. Zewge, and 1 more author
    Aerospace Science and Technology, 2024
    AI-based G&C Gaussian Process INDI
  1. AST
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    Adaptive Sliding Window Factor Graph Optimization with Multi-tag UWB/INS Fusion for Multirotor UAVs
    Hyeonmin Kim, Jayden Dongwoo Lee, Bohyun Chang, and 1 more author
    Aerospace Science and Technology, 2026
    Navigation Factor Graph UWB/INS
  1. CEP
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    Practical Fault-Tolerant Control Allocation based on Attainable Control Set Analysis for a Coaxial Dodecacopter
    Dain Yoon, Kyung-Mi Na, Jayden Dongwoo Lee, and 2 more authors
    Control Engineering Practice, 2025
    Fault Diagnosis & FTC Control Allocation Multirotor
  1. IEEE Sensors
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    Sensor and Actuator Fault Detection and Isolation for Urban Air Mobility
    Jayden Dongwoo Lee, Yoonseong Kim, Youngjae Kim, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Sensors Journal, 2026
    Fault Diagnosis & FTC UAM Sensor & Actuator FDI
  1. JIRS
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    Data-driven Fault Detection and Isolation for Multirotor System using Koopman Operator
    Jayden Dongwoo Lee, Sukjae Im, Lamsu Kim, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2024
    Fault Diagnosis & FTC Koopman Operator Multirotor