
Aerospace Centre of ExcellenceResearch
Our research spans from space systems, flight mechanics, computational gas and fluid dynamics to optimisation and uncertainty quantification, applied through three laboratories to future aerospace transport, advanced space concepts, and computational intelligence in aerospace systems.

Computational Intelligence
Research on Artificial and Computational Intelligence techniques, with particular focus on optimisation, optimal control, uncertainty-based multidisciplinary design optimisation and machine learning applied to the design and control of complex engineering systems.
Computational & theoretical aerodynamics
Research into developing and implementing advanced theoretical and computational methods for aerodynamics with applications from the design of the next generation aircraft to spaceplane-based launch systems.
GNC & Autonomy
Research on fault tolerant distributed autonomous navigation and control, proximity navigation, information fusion for autonomy, programmable matter, autonomous planning and scheduling

Flight & Spaceflight Mechanics
Research on orbital dynamics, new types of orbits for space applications, analytical and semi-analytical solutions for long term orbit propagation, high precision high fidelity orbit propagation, low-thrust propulsion, trajectory design and optimisation, proximity motion, constellation deployment and reconfiguration, swarm dynamics, ascent and re-entry dynamics