Eric Marie Feron is a

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

and

aerospace engineer Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...

. He has been the Dutton/Ducoffe Professor of Aerospace Software Engineering at

Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

since 2005. He taught at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...

's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1993 until his appointment at

. He obtained his BS from Ecole Polytechnique in 1989, his MS from Ecole Normale Suprieure in 1990, and PhD from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1994. His particular research foci are aerobatic control of

unmanned aerial vehicles An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controller ...

, multi-agent operations, including

air traffic control Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airs ...

systems and aerospace software system certification. One of his students at MIT was

Selçuk Bayraktar Selçuk Bayraktar (born 7 October 1979) is a Turkish engineer and businessman. He is the chairman of the board and the chief technology officer of the Turkish technology company Baykar. He is also known as the architect of Turkey's first indi ...

, the designer of the Bayraktar TB2 drone.

Selected research

*Frazzoli, Emilio, Munther A. Dahleh, and Eric Feron. "Maneuver-based motion planning for nonlinear systems with symmetries." IEEE Transactions on robotics 21.6 (2005): 1077–1091. *Frazzoli, Emilio, Munther A. Dahleh, and Eric Feron. "Real-time motion planning for agile autonomous vehicles." Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 25.1 (2002): 116–129. *Schouwenaars, Tom, et al. "Mixed integer programming for multi-vehicle path planning." 2001 European control conference (ECC). IEEE, 2001. *Boyd, Stephen, et al. Linear matrix inequalities in system and control theory. Vol. 15. Siam, 1994.

Published Books

* Advances in Control System Technology for Aerospace Applications, Eric Feron (editor), 2016, Springer. * General Theory of Algebraic Equations, Translate by Eric Feron, 2006, Princeton University Press. * Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory,

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, Laurent El Ghaoul, Eric Feron, 1994, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

References

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