A drone in flight in Shenzhen, China, on July 12, 2022. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images
A Chinese drone researcher, whose student visa was refused amid concerns of developing weapons of mass destruction, has lost his latest appeal in a five-year legal battle against Australia’s immigration minister.
Xiaolong Zhu, 36, came to Australia in 2018 with a tourist visa before being admitted to a PhD program at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT)’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Zhu’s research focuses on motion planning for multi-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) exploration in environments without GPS guidance.
The research is to develop a framework combining hardware and software for multi-UAV navigation, and cooperating to find a target in GPS-denied and cluttered environments, according to QUT’s website.
