The "Autonomous Navigation and Adaptive Control Systems for Aircraft" Educational and Scientific Program (PhD) is a laboratory for creating Cognitive Flight Systems. Doctoral studies here offer a space for a Strategic Systems Visionary. Your mission is to develop fundamental methods for swarm control, non-linear adaptation theories for critical damage, and navigation systems based on quantum sensors. Your scope of scientific inquiry will encompass mathematical models of intelligent agents, stabilization methods for chaotic systems, and real-time machine learning algorithms for control systems.
The goal of study is to cultivate a Scientific Leader in Robotics capable of heading the development of national and international-level control systems. We will teach you Robust Control Synthesis methodology, game theory for aerial conflict scenarios, and deep stability analysis for complex dynamic systems. This is the highest level of engineering thought, where Deep Math meets the Autonomous Future. You will learn to transform theoretical hypotheses into autonomy standards, becoming an ideologist of intelligent machines that surpass human capabilities.
Your scientific superpower: You will develop Algorithmic Sovereignty and Predictive Synthesis Mastery—the ability to create systems that remain controllable under any physical or cyber attack. Your PhD arsenal will include:
- Adaptive Control Theory: developing systems that autonomously identify environmental parameters and instantly alter their control structure.
- Swarm Intelligence & Cooperative Control: mathematical substantiation of the behavior of hundreds of autonomous units functioning as a single organism.
- Bio-inspired Navigation: researching and implementing living organism orientation principles into technical navigation systems.
- Formal Verification: proving control algorithm reliability and safety for mission-critical applications.
Our Doctors of Philosophy are professors at top technical universities, Chief Scientists in DefenseTech clusters, founders of DeepTech startups, and experts shaping the future of autonomous transport at the level of national strategies.
Objects of professional activity for PhD students include conceptual models of adaptive systems, scientific substantiation of new GPS-denied navigation principles, theory of intelligent group object control, and safety expertise for AI-powered autonomous systems.
Field of Study: G “Engineering, Manufacturing and Construction”
Specialty: G5 “Electronics, Electronic Communications, Instrumentation and Robotics”
Educational Program: Systems of Autonomous Navigation and Adaptive Control of Aircraft
Accreditation Certificate: No.15987 dated June 23, 2025. Valid until July 1, 2027.
Structural Unit Responsible for PhD Admission: Department of Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies
Structural Unit Responsible for PhD Training: Department of Aircraft Control Systems (301) — competitive proposal: Systems of Autonomous Navigation and Adaptive Control of Aircraft.