UAM/AAM technology development cases
Antonios Tsourdos
Cranfield University
Professor of Autonomous Systems and Control
Antonios Tsourdos obtained an MEng on Electronic, Control and Systems Engineering from the University of Sheffield (1995), an MSc on Systems Engineering from Cardiff University (1996) and a PhD on Nonlinear Robust Flight Control Design and Analysis from Cranfield University (1999). He is a Professor of Autonomous Systems and Control with Cranfield University. He was appointed Head of the Autonomous Systems Group in 2007, Head of the Centre of Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems in 2012 and Director of Research - Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing in 2015.
Professor Tsourdos was chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Aerospace Control (2017 - 2023), and member of the IMechE Mechatronics, Informatics And Control Group. He is editorial board member for the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, the Aerospace Science and Technology, the International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences, the Control Engineering Practice, the International Journal of Systems Science and the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. He has also served in the editorial board member of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and the IEEE Transactions of Instrumentation and Measurement.
He is member of AIAA Advanced Air Mobility Certification Task Force. He is leading for Cranfield University a number of UKRI Future Flight Challenge projects on advanced air mobility operations.
Professor Tsourdos research is focussed on autonomy. He has published widely on guidance, control and navigation for single and multiple autonomous vehicles as well as mission planning.
