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Professor Antonios Tsourdos is a leading academic in autonomous systems and control engineering at Cranfield University, where he serves as Professor of Autonomous Systems and Control and Director of the Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-physical Systems. His career spans over two decades with significant contributions to guidance, navigation, and control systems for unmanned vehicles. He has held leadership positions including Head of the Autonomous Systems Group (2007), Head of the Centre of Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems (2012), and Director of Research for Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing (2015).
Professor Tsourdos earned his academic qualifications from prestigious UK institutions: MEng in Electronic, Control and Systems Engineering from the University of Sheffield (1995), MSc in Systems Engineering from Cardiff University (1996), and PhD in Nonlinear Robust Flight Control Design and Analysis from Cranfield University (1999).
His research focuses on autonomy for single and multiple unmanned vehicles, with particular expertise in guidance and control systems, mission planning, multi-agent coordination, and UAS traffic management. Professor Tsourdos has published extensively in top-tier journals, with over 100 publications in the last five years alone, demonstrating his active research program and leadership in the field. His work bridges theoretical control systems with practical aerospace applications.
His research portfolio includes significant projects such as CHEDDAR (Communications Hub for Empowering Distributed ClouD Computing), Air Mobility Ecosystem Consortium, Project BLUEPRINT for UTM-enabled drone operations, and the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Security. These projects are funded by UKRI, ESA, Horizon Europe, and major industry partners including BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Airbus, and Thales.
Professor Tsourdos has received notable recognition including Fellowship in the Royal Aeronautical Society, membership in the winning team for the UK MoD Grand Challenge (2008), and the IET Innovation Award (2009). He served as chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Aerospace Control (2017-2023) and has been involved with the BSI Future Flight Standards Hub and AIAA Advanced Aerial Mobility Certification Task Force.
He serves on the editorial boards of numerous prestigious journals including Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering; Aerospace Science and Technology; and IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. His work has significant industrial impact through collaborations with major aerospace and defense companies.
