Professor Massimiliano Vasile
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Personal statement
Professor Vasile key expertise is in computational intelligence applied to the solution of complex problems in aerospace engineering. He pioneered the use of global optimisation techniques for the design and optimisation space trajectories and the use of uncertainty quantification technique in conjunction with optimisation for the design and control of complex engineering systems. He developed innovative methods for optimisation under uncertainty based on evidence theory, called Evidence Based Robust Optimisation, he has worked on non-deterministic planning and goal allocation for robots, fault tolerant distributed navigation systems for spacecraft and nonlinear uncertainty quantification in space flight mechanics, with particular application to space debris and asteroid manipulation. He also developed innovative techniques for multi-objective optimal control and multi-objective optimisation under uncertainty. He is currently leading the Stardust network on asteroids and space debris, the UTOPIAE network on uncertainty treatment and optimisation in aerospace engineering and is part of the management team of the EPSRC ENCORE network on resilience in complex engineering systems.
Area of Expertise
- Computational optimisation
- Multidisciplinary design
- Robust design optimisation
- Astrodynamics and mission analysis
- Computational intelligence
- Development of computational tools for system,component and process design and optimisation
- Integrated design of new products and processes
- Reliability analysis of products and processes, enhanced product quality
- Analysis of new mission concepts
- Autonomous control of processes and systems
- Autonomous activity planning and scheduling, support to multi-criteria decision making
Prize And Awards
- Innovative Computational Methods in Dynamical Astronomy
- Recipient
- 13/5/2023
- AIAA Associate Fellow
- Recipient
- 1/10/2022
- Senior IEEE member
- Recipient
- 27/9/2022
- Best Paper Award in "Innovation in Smart Cities and Systems"
- Recipient
- 1/9/2022
- Best interactive paper award - IAC 2021
- Recipient
- 2021
- AAS/AIAA SFM Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 2020
Publications
- Space object identification and classification from hyperspectral material analysis
- Vasile Massimiliano, Walker Lewis, Campbell Andrew, Marto Simão, Murray Paul, Marshall Stephen, Savitski Vasili
- Scientific Reports Vol 14 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51659-7
- Stochastic Bayesian model updating to reduce epistemic uncertainty in satellite attitude propagation
- Smith Ewan, Bi Sifeng, Feng Jinglang, Cavallari Irene, Vasile Massimiliano
- SciTech Forum 2024 (2024)
- Modelling future launch traffic and its effect on the LEO operational environment
- Wilson Callum J, Vasile Massimiliano, Feng Jinglang, McNally Keiran, Antón Alfredo, Letizia Francesca
- AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum AIAA SciTech Forum 2024 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-1814
- Image-based synchronised control of spacecraft’s attitude and space manipulator’s motions for capturing uncooperative targets
- Sampath Shabadini, Feng Jinglang, Marto Simão G, Vasile Massimiliano
- AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-2277
- Hyperspectral lightcurve inversion for attitude determination
- Marto Simão G, Vasile Massimiliano, Campbell Andrew, Murray Paul, Marshall Stephen, Savitski Vasili
- SciTech Forum 2024 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-0198
- An adaptive many-objective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition with two archives and an entropy trigger
- Cao Li, Wang Maocai, Vasile Massimiliano, Dai Guangming, Wu Huanqin
- Engineering Optimization (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0305215X.2023.2283038
Professional Activities
- International Funding Opportunities for Space Research
- Organiser
- 20/12/2022
- OAS Artificial Intelligence Workshop
- Organiser
- 14/12/2022
- Stardust-Reloaded Final Conference
- Chair
- 7/11/2022
- Stardust-R Global Virtual Workshop II: Space Traffic Management and Resilient Space Environment
- Organiser
- 13/9/2021
- International Conference on Bioinspired Optimisation Methods and Their Applications
- Chair
- 17/11/2020
- STARDUST-R GLOBAL VIRTUAL WORKSHOP I
- Organiser
- 2020
Projects
- SOLERO - Solar Power Satellite vs the Space Environment
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Feng, Jinglang (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- Protecting Earth from the uncertAinty of spaCe debris re-Entry
- Bi, Sifeng (Principal Investigator) Fossati, Marco (Co-investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- AI for Space Operations, Safety and Sustainability (A14S3)
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Clemente, Carmine (Co-investigator) Feng, Jinglang (Co-investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator) Marshall, Stephen (Co-investigator) Murray, Paul (Co-investigator) Riccardi, Annalisa (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- Generative Astrodynamics
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator)
- 19-Jan-2024 - 19-Jan-2025
- AI for Space Operations, Safety and Sustainability
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Clemente, Carmine (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 15-Jan-2023
- Generative Mapping and Control of Stationary Points in Complex Dynamical Systems EP/X018288/1 (New Horizons)
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator)
- 02-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2025
Contact
Professor
Massimiliano
Vasile
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: massimiliano.vasile@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2326