Professor Antonios Tsourdos
Head of Autonomous Systems Group
Location: MH188A
E: a.tsourdos@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1793 785841
Informatics and Systems Engineering
Current activities
Professor Tsourdos research activities include:
- Cooperative Control and Estimation
- Decision Making for Autonomous Systems
- Verification of Autonomous Systems
- Multi-vehicle reasoning
- UAV Collision Avoidance
- UAV Conflict Resolution Logic
- Autonomous Vehicle Guidance and Navigation
- Integrated Vehicle Health Management
- Data and Information Fusion
- Sensor Fusion
- Missile Guidance and Control
- Robust and Nonlinear Control
Clients
Background
Obtained a 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 Missile Autopilot Design and Analysis from Cranfield University (1999). Appointed Head of the Autonomous Systems Group in 2007.
Professor Tsourdos was member of the Team Stellar, the winning team for the UK MoD Grand Challenge (2008) and the IET Innovation Award (Category Team, 2009).
Antonios is an editorial board member of the Proceedings of the IMechE Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering, the International Journal of Systems Science, the IEEE Transactions of Instrumentation and Measurement, the International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, the journal of Mathematics in Engineering, Science and Aerospace (MESA) and the International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Professor Tsourdos is a member of the Expert Advisory Group on Precision, Navigation and Networking for the Complex Weapons Centre of Defence Technology, a member of the A|D|S Autonomous Systems Strategy Group and the A&D KTN National Technical Committee on Autonomous Systems. Professor Tsourdos is also a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Aerospace Control, the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems, the AIAA Technical Committee on Guidance, Control & Navigation (AIAA GNC TC), the IEEE Control System Society Technical Committee on Aerospace Control (TCAC) and the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Professor Tsourdos is also member of IET Robotics & Mechatronics Executive Team.
Professor Tsourdos Established links with a number of national and international research groups, including University of Pisa (Dipartimento Di Sistemi Elettrici E Automazione), Korean Advanced Institute of Technology (Flight Dynamics and Control Lab), Seoul National University (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) and the Defence Research and Development Canada (Valcartier)
Selected publications
Books
- S.N. Balakrishnan, A. Tsourdos, B.A. White (Editors), Advances in Missile Guidance, Control and Estimation, Taylor & Francis Inc. (2010)
- Antonios Tsourdos, Brian White and Madhavan Shanmugavel, Cooperative Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Wiley, John & Sons (2010)
Book Chapters
- Seungkeun Kim, Antonios Tsourdos and Brian White, Nonlinear Flight Control Systems, Chapter 234, Volume 5, Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering (2010)
- Madhavan Shanmugavel, Antonios Tsourdos and Brian White, Obstacle Avoidance: Static Obstacles, Chapter 241, Volume 5, Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering (2010)
Selected Journal Publications
- Oh H., Won D-Y, Huh S-S, Shim D.H., Tahk M.J. and Tsourdos A, Indoor UAV Control Using Multi-camera Visual Feedback, Vol. 61, No. 1-4, pp. 57-84 (2011)
- Lazarus SB, Tsourdos A, White BA, Silson P, Zbikowski R, Co-operative unmanned aerial vehicle searching and mapping of complex obstacles using two-dimensional splinegon, Proceedings of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G-Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol 224, No G2, pp.149-170, 2010
- Sinha A, Tsourdos A, White B, Multi UAV Coordination for Tracking the Dispersion of a Contaminant Cloud in an Urban Region, European Journal of Control, Vol.15 Issue 3-4pp. 441-448 , 2009
- White BA , Tsourdos A, Ashokaraj I, Subchan S, Zbikowski R, Contaminant Cloud Boundary Monitoring Using Network of UAV Sensors, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol 8, No 9-10, pp. 1681-1692, 2008
- Shanmugavel M, Tsourdos A, White B.A, Zbikowski R,Differential geometric path planning of multiple UAVs, Transactions of the ASME - Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol 129, No 5, pp. 620-32, 2007
- White BA, Zbikowski R , Tsourdos A, Direct intercept guidance using differential geometry concepts, IEEE Transactions On Aerospace And Electronic Systems, Vol 43, No 3, pp. 899-919, 2007
- Ashokaraj IAR, Silson PMG, Tsourdos A, White BA, Robust Sensor-Based Navigation for Mobile Robots, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol 58, No 3, pp. 551-556, 2009
- Lazarus SB, Tsourdos A, Silson P, White B, Zbikowski R, Unmanned aerial vehicle navigation and mapping, Proceedings Of The Institution Of Mechanical Engineers Part G-Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol 222, No G4, pp. 531-548, 2008
- Jeyaraman S, Tsourdos A, Zbikowski R, White B, Kripke modelling approaches of a multiple robots system with minimalist communication: A formal approach of choice, International Journal of Systems Science, Vol 37, No 6, pp. 339-349, 2006
- Jeyaraman S, Tsourdos A, Zbikowski R, White BA, Kripke modelling of multiple robots with decentralized cooperation specified with temporal logic, Proceedings of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I-Journal of Systems And Control Engineering, Vol 219, No 11, pp. 15-31, 2005
- White BA, Bruyere, L, Tsourdos A, Missile autopilot design using quasi-LPV polynomial eigenstructure assignment, IEEE Transactions On Aerospace And Electronic Systems, Vol 43, No 4, pp. 1470-1483, 2007
- Bruyere L, Tsourdos A, White BA, Quasilinear parameter-varying autopilot design using polynomial eigenstructure assignment with actuator constraints, AIAA Journal Of Guidance Control And Dynamics, Vol 29, No 6, pp. 1282-1294, 2006
