Robust Formation Control for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (PDF)

research interests lie in the modeling, evaluation, and control of large-scale dynamical networks, cyber-physical systems, stochastic networks, and their applications to smart grids, urban aerial mobility, autonomous driving, robot networking, and air traffic management. She is an appointed member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and serves in the Conference Editorial Board and Technology Conference Editorial Board. She is also a technical committee member of AIAA Intelligent Systems, IEEE CSS Nonlinear Systems and Control, and IEEE CSS Networks and Communication Systems.

Frank L. Lewis is a Member of National Academy of Inventors, a Fellow of IEEE/IFAC/U.K/Institute of Measurement & Control, PE Texas, U.K. Chartered Engineer. He is a UTA Distinguished Scholar Professor, UTA Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Moncrief-O'Donnell Chair at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute. He received the bachelor's degree in physics/EE in 1971 and the M.S.E.E. degree in 1971 from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, the M.S. degree in aeronautical engineering in 1977 from the University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1981 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. He works in feedback control, intelligent systems, cooperative control systems, and nonlinear systems. He is author of 7 U.S. patents, numerous journal special issues, journal papers, and 20 books, including Optimal Control, Aircraft Control, Optimal Estimation, and Robot Manipulator Control which are used as university textbooks worldwide. He received the Fulbright Research Award, NSF Research Initiation Grant, ASEE Terman Award, Int. Neural Network Soc. Gabor Award, U.K. Inst Measurement & Control Honeywell Field Engineering Medal, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Neural Networks Pioneer Award, AIAA Intelligent Systems Award. Received Outstanding Service Award from Dallas IEEE Section, selected as Engineer of the year by Ft. Worth IEEE Section. Was listed in Ft. Worth Business Press Top 200 Leaders in Manufacturing. Texas Regents Outstanding Teaching Award 2013.

Kimon P. Valavanis received the Diploma degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1981, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 1984 and 1986, respectively. He is currently a Professor and the Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and also the Acting Chair of the Computer Science Department, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA. His current research interests include unmanned systems and distributed intelligence systems.