Antonios Tsourdos is a Reader in Autonomous Systems andControl and Head of the Guidance and Control Group at Cranfield.His research areas include UAV Autonomy, UAV Path Planning,Coordinated Guidance, Cooperative Control, UAV Swarm, AutonomousSensors Network, Sensor and Data Fusion, and Vehicle HealthManagement. He has authored many scientific research papers and hasserved as a guest editor for journal special issues on’multi-vehicle systems cooperative control with applications’;’advances in missile guidance and control: theory and practice’,and cooperative control approaches for multiple mobile robots’.

Brian A White, now Professor Emeritus at Cranfield, wasuntil recently Head of the Department of Aerospace, Power andSensors and also Head of the Guidance and Control Group atCranfield. His areas of expertise are robust control, non-linearcontrol, estimation, observer applications, inertial navigation,guidance design, soft computing and sensor and data fusion. He haspublished widely in the control science field, mainly on autopilotdesign and guidance. He has managed significant contracts in thearea of guidance. He has organized and run numerous invitedsessions at major control conferences and co-edited a special issueof the IFAC journal Control Engineering Practice on Control inDefence Systems. He has served as associate editor for the IMechEJournal of Aerospace Engineering (Part G), IMechE Journal ofSystems and Control Engineering (Part I), and the Journal ofNonlinear Studies.

Madhavan Shanmugavel is a Research Officer within theGuidance and Control Group at Cranfield.

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