About the Editors
Dr. Nicolas Gascoin is Director at INSA Centre Val de Loire (Institut National des
Sciences Appliquées, ex ENSI Bourges), France. He holds a Ph.D. in the area of
Scramjet cooling by endothermal reactive fuel from MBDA–EADS, Bourges
(France). He has published more than 50 papers in international, peer-reviewed
journals and attended 90 international conferences. He has also served as an advisor
for postdoc and research engineers since 2007. Dr. Gascoin has coordinated
numerous major research projects
Dr. E. Balasubramanian completed his Ph.D. in Robotics and Control at
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He has more than fifteen years of research
experience and conducted various funded projects under the aegis of DST, DRDO
and ISRO, Government of India. He has collaborated with scientists in Taiwan,
Canada and Korea in the development of flapping and rotary wing UAVs for
diverse applications, including inspection of bridges, heritage structures, telecom
towers, power line cables, monitoring of traffic signals, environment and water
quality inspections. He also developed a test rig to measure aerodynamic forces of
ornithopters and powder-based additive manufacturing systems. He has won several
national and international competitions. He is in editorial board member and
reviewer for various journals. His research interests include UAVs, robotics, rapid
prototyping, control and sensors with online data acquisition. He has published
more than 100 research papers, two books and filed many patents.
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Dr. Nicolas Gascoin is Director at INSA Centre Val de Loire (Institut National des
Sciences Appliquées, ex ENSI Bourges), France. He holds a Ph.D. in the area of
Scramjet cooling by endothermal reactive fuel from MBDA–EADS, Bourges
(France). He has published more than 50 papers in international, peer-reviewed
journals and attended 90 international conferences. He has also served as an advisor
for postdoc and research engineers since 2007. Dr. Gascoin has coordinated
numerous major research projects
Dr. E. Balasubramanian completed his Ph.D. in Robotics and Control at
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He has more than fifteen years of research
experience and conducted various funded projects under the aegis of DST, DRDO
and ISRO, Government of India. He has collaborated with scientists in Taiwan,
Canada and Korea in the development of flapping and rotary wing UAVs for
diverse applications, including inspection of bridges, heritage structures, telecom
towers, power line cables, monitoring of traffic signals, environment and water
quality inspections. He also developed a test rig to measure aerodynamic forces of
ornithopters and powder-based additive manufacturing systems. He has won several
national and international competitions. He is in editorial board member and
reviewer for various journals. His research interests include UAVs, robotics, rapid
prototyping, control and sensors with online data acquisition. He has published
more than 100 research papers, two books and filed many patents.
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