**About the Editors**

### **Felipe Gonzalez Toro**

Dr Gonzalez is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics (EER) and a CI in QUT Centre for Robotics (QCR), Engineering Faculty with a passion for innovation in the fields of aerial robotics and automation. Gonzalez interest is in creating aerial robots, drones or UAVs that possess a high level of cognition using efficient on-board computer algorithms using advanced optimization and game theory approaches that assist us to understand and improve our physical and natural world. He is the co-author of several books in UAV based remote sensing and UAV based design and as of 2021 has published nearly 150 refereed papers. To date he has been awarded \$40.1M in chief investigator / partner investigator grants (\$6.5M total cash + in-kind contributions). This grant income represents a mixture of sole investigator funding, ARC DP, ARC LIEF, ARC Linkages , international, multidisciplinary collaborative grants and funding from industry.

#### **Antonios Tsourdos**

Professor Tsourdos obtained a MEng in Electronic, Control and Systems Engineering from the University of Sheffield (1995), an MSc in Systems Engineering from Cardiff University (1996) and a PhD in Nonlinear Robust Autopilot Design and Analysis from Cranfield University (1999).

He is the Head of the Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems in 2007, Professor of Autonomous Systems and Control in 2009, and Director of Research–Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing in 2015.

Professor Tsourdos is Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Aerospace Control, and a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Unmanned Systems Integration and Outreach Committee; the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Control System Society Technical Committee on Aerospace Control (TCAC) and the IMechE Mechatronics, Informatics and Control Group board.
