Cengiz Hacızade

Professor Cengiz Hacızade holds a faculty position at Istanbul Technical University's Department of Aeronautical Engineering. His research spans advanced control systems for aerospace applications, with specialization in estimation theory and fault-tolerant navigation for satellites and autonomous vehicles.

Research interests focus on:

• Kalman filtering variants (Extended, Unscented, Multiplicative) for attitude/orbit determination
• Fault-tolerant control systems for UAVs and nanosatellites
• Optimization-driven controller tuning (Particle Swarm Optimization)
• Robust estimation under sensor/actuator faults and noise uncertainty

Recent publications (2025) demonstrate strong emphasis on adaptive filtering techniques for small satellites, dynamics estimation under faults, and predictive control of autonomous vehicles. Article trends highlight applications of nonlinear estimation methods to aerospace systems with evolving noise characteristics.

Research Leadership:

• Supervising 38 graduate theses in progress
• Principal Investigator for 5 projects including:
  • GNSS-based constellation navigation (2023-2025)
  • In-orbit magnetometer calibration (2022-2023)
  • Nanosatellite orientation algorithms (2019-2021)