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
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Recipient
- 29/10/2024
- 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
Publications
- Risk and Reliability Analysis of a Drone Logistic Network for Healthcare System
- Filippi Gianluca, Basu Tathagata, Patelli Edoardo, Vasile Massimiliano, Fossati Marco
- Advances in Reliability, Safety and Security European Safety and Reliability Conference, pp. 133-134 (2025)
- Semi-analytical attitude propagation of low-altitude Earth orbiting objects
- Cavallari I, Feng J, Vasile M
- Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation Vol 142 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2024.108550
- Semi-analytical attitude propagation for earth orbiting objects
- Cavallari I, Feng J, Vasile M
- Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation Vol 142 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2024.108549
- Multi agent collaborative search algorithm with adaptive weights
- Cao Li, Wang Maocai, Vasile Massimiliano, Dai Guangming
- Expert Systems Vol 41 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.13709
- Treatment of epistemic uncertainty in conjunction analysis with Dempster-Shafer theory
- Sánchez Luis, Vasile Massimiliano, Sanvido Silvia, Merz Klaus, Taillan Christophe
- Advances in Space Research Vol 74, pp. 5639-5686 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.014
- Extending a risk metric for individual missions to evaluate overall risk in orbit
- Wilson Callum, Vasile Massimiliano, Feng Jinglang, McNally Keiran, Maric Nina, Horstmann Andre
- 75th International Astronautical Congress (2024)
Professional Activities
- 2nd International Workshop on AI for Space Sustainability
- Member of programme committee
- 30/10/2024
- 1st International Workshop on AI for Space Sustainability
- Member of programme committee
- 2024
- NASA Visit to the University of Strathclyde
- Organiser
- 8/11/2023
- Italian Embassy Scientific Attaché Visit
- Organiser
- 7/11/2023
- International Funding Opportunities for Space Research
- Organiser
- 20/12/2022
- OAS Artificial Intelligence Workshop
- Organiser
- 14/12/2022
Projects
- Robust Attitude Uncertainty Estimation for Debris Removal
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Ilioudis, Christos (Co-investigator) Zabalza, Jaime (Co-investigator)
- 20-Jan-2024 - 19-Jan-2026
- Space Solar Mission Analysis
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 14-Jan-2025
- AI-based multi-sensor data fusion for autonomous navigation around asteroids
- Feng, Jinglang (Principal Investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator) Wu, Yue (Co-investigator) Zabalza, Jaime (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2027
- Protecting Earth from the uncertAinty of spaCe debris re-Entry
- Fossati, Marco (Principal Investigator) Bi, Sifeng (Co-investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- SOLERO - Solar Power Satellite vs the Space Environment
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Feng, Jinglang (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
Contact
Professor
Massimiliano
Vasile
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: massimiliano.vasile@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2326