Advanced Trajectory Optimization, Guidance and Control Strategies for Aerospace Vehicles: Methods and Applications

About Antonios TsourdosGokhan InalhanKaiyuan ChenLingguo CuiRunqi ChaiSenchun Chai

Runqi Chai received the Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from Cranfield University Cranfield UK in August 2018. He was Research Fellow at Cranfield University from 2018 to 2021. He was also Visiting Researcher at The University of Manchester Manchester UK in 2021. He is currently Professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing China. His research interests include trajectory optimization networked control systems multiagent control systems and autonomous vehicle motion planning and control.Kaiyuan Chen received the Ph.D. degree from Swansea University in 2022. She serves as Research Fellow at Vanke School of Public Health Tsinghua University. Currently she is Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). Her research interests include optimal control smart health care global health intelligent governance the application of unmanned system in public health andother relevant fields.Lingguo Cui received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing China in March 2007. She was Visiting Researcher at Cranfield University Cranfield UK in 2016 and at University of Florida USA from 2011 to 2012. She is currently Associate Professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing China. Her research interests include information security wireless sensor networks optimal control and optimization theory.Senchun Chai received the B.S. and master's degrees in control science and engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing China in 2001 and 2004 respectively and the Ph.D. degree in networked control system from the University of South Wales Pontypridd UK in 2007. He was Research Fellow at Cranfield University Bedford UK from 2009 to 2010 and was Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbana Champaign IL USA from January 2010 to May 2010. He is currently Professor at the School of Automation Beijing Institute of Technology. He has authored and coauthored more than 100 journal and conference papers. His current research interests include flight control system networked control systems embedded systems and multiagent control systems.Gokhan Inalhan received the B.Sc. degree in aeronautical engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1997 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in 1998 and 2004 respectively. He is BAE Systems Chair Professor of Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence and Deputy Head of Autonomous and Cyber-physical Systems Centre at Cranfield University Bedford UK. He has previously served as Director General with ITU Aerospace Research Centre Istanbul Turkey. He has authored or coauthored over 200 papers book chapters proceedings and technical reports on his areas of interest. His research interests include advanced controls optimization and modeling aspects associated with autonomy and artificial intelligence for air space defense and transportation systems (urban air mobility air traffic management/unmanned aerial systems (UAS) traffic management) with seminal works on multiple aircraft coordination and decentralized control of UASs.Antonios Tsourdos received the M.E. degree in electronic control and systems engineering from the University of Sheffield Sheffield UK in 1995 the M.Sc. degree in systems engineering from Cardiff University Cardiff UK in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in nonlinear robust autopilot design and analysis from Cranfield University Bedford UK in 1999. In 1999 he joined the Cranfield University as Lecturer was appointed Head of the Centre of Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems in 2007 Professor of Autonomous Systems and Control in 2009 and Director of ResearchAerospace Transport and Manufacturing in 2015. He currently leads the research team on autonomous systems within the School of Aerospace Transport and Manufacturing Cranfield University. He has diverse expertise in both unmanned and autonomous vehicles as well as networked systems. His research interests include the fields of guidance control and navigation for single and multiple unmanned autonomous vehicles as well as research on cyber-physical systems.