Giulio Avanzini
Università del Salento
Italy
Biography
Giulio Avanzini is Professor in Flight Mechanics at the Università del Salento, where he teaches Fundamentals of Aerospace Engineering (B.Eng), Flight Mechanics and Aircraft Design (M.Sc). He served as assistant professor at the Politecnico di Torino for 13 years (1998-2011), teaching courses on Atmospheric and Space Flight Mechanics. He was visiting professor at the University of Glasgow and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaing. He obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics and a Laurea degree summa cum laude in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. His research activity spans various fields of atmospheric and space flight mechanics: analysis of aircraft dynamics in nonlinear flight regimes; aircraft, rotorcraft and spacecraft inverse simulation; fixed and rotary wing aircraft dynamics; autonomous flight and uninhabited aerial vehicles; spacecraft attitude dynamics and control; satellite formation flight; fundamental problems in orbit dynamics and space mission analysis; analysis of flying qualities of entry vehicles.
Abstract
Abstract : Attitude manoeuvre planning and control of underactuated spacecraft: a kinematic approach