Geogria Institute of Technology

B.S., Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, 1989.
M.S., Computer Science, Ecole Polytechnique & Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1990.
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Stanford University, 1994.

Eric Feron has been the Dutton-Ducoffe Professor of Aerospace Software Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 2005. Prior to that, he was on the faculty of MIT's department of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1993 until 2005. He holds his BS, MS and PhD degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, France, Ecole Normale Suprieure, France and Stanford University, United States. Eric Feron's interests are to use fundamental concepts of control systems, optimization and computer science to address important problems in aerospace engineering, including: Aerobatic control of unmanned aerial vehicles, multi-agent operations, including air traffic control systems and aerospace software system certification. Eric Feron has published two books and several research papers; his former research students are distributed throughout academia, government and industry. He is an advisor to the Academy of Technologies, France. When he is not in his office, Eric Feron may be found sailing along the coast of Florida.

Flight mechanics and control involving real-time, embedded systems, including:

• Air traffic control with an emphasis on air traffic safety and airports
• Unmanned aerial vehicles with an emphasis on high agility flight
• Embedded software analysis and design by means of rigorous, quantitative methods

• Charles Stark Draper Chair, 1993
• NSF Research Initiation Award, 1994
• NASA Certificate of Recognition, 1998
• ONR Young Investigator Award, 1999
• Advisor, French Academy of Technologies   2001

• Frazzoli, E., Dahleh, M. and Feron, E. “Maneuver-based Motion Planning for Nonlinear Systems with Symmetries” to appear, IEEE Trans. on Robotics, 2005.
• General Theory of Algebraic Equations, by E. Bezout, translation from French by E. Feron. Princeton University Press, 2005. Original publication: 1779.
• Schouwenaars, T; Valenti, M; Feron, E; How, J; Roche, E.. "
  Linear Programming and Language Processing for Human/Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle Team Missions," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 303-313. Mar.-Apr. 2006
• T. Schouwenaars, A. Stubbs, J. D. Paduano and Eric Feron: “Multi-Vehicle Path Planning for Non-Line of Sight Communication”, Journal of Field Robotics, 2006.
• Zhi-Hong Mao, David Dugail, and Eric Feron . “Space Partition for Conflict Resolution of Intersecting Flows of Mobile Agents Zhi-Hong Mao, David Dugail, and Eric Feron”,  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2007.