Robotic Systems: From Modelling to Construction

About Chris WattsEuan McGookinKevin Worrall

Euan McGookin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Glasgow. His research and teaching interests cover the fields of robotics simulation optimisation dynamics and control. He has published a large number of papers and supervised many projects in these areas. Prior to his academic career Professor McGookin worked for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in the UK. His duties involved the design and construction of control systems and simulation models of gas turbine engines. This continued some of the work he undertook for his Ph.D. in marine vehicle nonlinear control optimisation and his M.Eng. studies into nonlinear controller design for submarine guidance and navigation. Both projects involved collaboration between the University of Glasgow and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway. Kevin James Worrall is a researcher in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Glasgow. He received his B.Eng. (Hons) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Glasgow and an M.Sc. in Robotics and Embedded Systems from Essex University where he also received an EPSRC grant to study. The time between these two degrees was spent working in a start-up company as an electronic engineer. His current research interests include mobile robotics heuristic methods and their application to multi-agent systems and the development of systems for AUVs. Chris Watts is a researcher in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Glasgow. He obtained an M.Eng. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Glasgow in 2005. His M.Eng. placement was with Honeywell where he worked on embedded systems for controllers. He is currently researching Biomimetic Propulsion Systems for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and he continues to have a strong interest in embedded systems and robotics.