Vitor Valente

Vitor T. Valente is graduating with his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Pennsylvania State University in the Summer of 2024. He holds a bachelor’s in Control and Automation Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and an Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering within the same university where his research focused on developing a controller for a hydraulic driven parallel manipulator focusing on attenuating sea waves. As part of his Ph.D. dissertation, he investigated a new flight control system design for multirotor vehicles focusing on reducing the acoustic noise generated while in flight. His research interests also include reconfigurable UAVs, state estimation and control system design for robotics and autonomous vehicles. He is affiliated to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Vertical Flight Society (VFS).