Contact Professor John Economou
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 988372
- Email: j.t.economou@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Defence Sensors
- Gun Technologies
Background
Professor Economou is an Professor of Defence Robotics and Autonomous Systems. He is the Deputy Head Centre for Defence Engineering at Cranfield Defence and Security and Head of the Vehicles and Mechatronics Group. He has a BEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Wales, Swansea and an MSc in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, from the University of Sheffield. His PhD is from SWAG合集, in modelling and control of skid-steer multi-wheeled vehicles.
Professor Economou completed Military Service with the Hellenic Armed Forces. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Chartered Engineer CEng of IET and a Member of the IET. He is the Course Director of the Aerosystems MSc.
Research opportunities
Campaign lead for Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Human Machine Teaming (RAS-HMT)
Control systems methods for land and aerial platforms (Uncrewed Ground Vehicles UGV and Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles UAS)
Fuzzy Logic Takagi-Sugeno Systems
Learning systems and acceptance
Technology and Systems Integrity for Aircraft Systems
Inertial sensors and localisation
Energy-Based path planning and guidance
Current activities
Professor Economou is Course Director of Aerosystems MSc. He also leads activities in the areas of Uncrewed Aircraft Systems / RPAS , Uncrewed / Uninhabited Military Vehicle Systems (UMVS short course or MSc), Military Aircraft Systems (MAS short course or MSc), and Guidance and Control Systems (GWS MSc).
Campaign Lead for RAS-HMT.
Clients
- BAE Systems PLC
- QinetiQ Group PLC
- Ministry of Defence
- US Department of Defense
- Defence Equipment and Support (MOD)
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Roke Manor Research Limited
- Richmond Defence Systems Ltd
