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Control engineering, uncrewed aircraft, and the tooling around them.

General Information

Full Name George Zogopoulos
Published as Georgios Zogopoulos-Papaliakos
Based in Utrecht, the Netherlands
Languages Greek, English

Education

  • 2015 - 2021
    PhD, Control Engineering
    Control Systems Lab, National Technical University of Athens
    • Fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control for uncrewed aircraft.
    • Structural analysis for the systematic generation of residual generators, parity-based diagnosis, and flight envelope determination and protection.
    • Built the software, electronics and testbeds, and flew the experiments.
  • Diploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    National Technical University of Athens
    • Specialised towards computer science, microelectronics and control theory.

Experience

  • Founder and Principal Engineer
    Controlled Ascent
    • UAS controls and compliance engineering consultancy.
    • Autopilot tuning on ArduPilot and PX4, flight log analysis, UAS simulation, and technical compliance documentation for EASA SORA.
  • Flight Control Engineer
    UAS manufacturer, the Netherlands
    • Control systems expertise across the design, production, testing and CAA authorisation of a new uncrewed aircraft, and its support after release.
    • Introduced clearer software development practices and a systematic approach to testing, debugging and documentation.

Open Source

  • ardupilog
    • An ArduPilot log to MATLAB converter.
  • last_letter
    • ROS packages for UAV simulation and autopilot development, with a supporting simulation library.
  • fault-diagnosis
    • The research software behind the doctoral work on structural-analysis-based diagnosis.

Interests

  • Control theory • uncrewed aircraft • simulation • flight testing • engineering tooling • RC flight