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Name Professor Arthur Richards
Job title Professor of Robotics and Control
Department Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Bristol
Personal web page http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~aeagr/
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Qualifications M.Eng.(Cantab.), S.M.(M.I.T.), Ph.D. (M.I.T.)
Professional details
Keywords robust model predictive control
control of autonomous vehicles
distributed control
trajectory optimization
air traffic management
spacecraft control
unmanned air vehicles
Areas of expertise My work develops mathematical methods to control the movement of aircraft and spacecraft. The goal is to make them more efficient, by using less fuel in a spacecraft rendezvous or by reducing delays to air traffic, for example.