K. Warwick

Kevin Warwick was previously a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering, University of Warwick. However, in August 1988 he took up the Professorship of Cybernetics and became Head of the Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading. Hehas previously held appointments at Oxford University, Imperial College, London and Newcastle University as well as being employed by British Telecom for six years. Dr. Warwick is a Chartered Engineer and serves on the Artificial Intelligence and Control and Systems Theory committees of the IEE, previously acting as a chairman for the latter. He is co-editor of the successful book 'Industrial digital control systems', which is an earlier volume in the series.

He has published over seventy papers in the areas of his research interests which include system identification, adaptive control and state-space design. The main thrust of his present research lies in the field of intelligent control systems, with particular emphasis on high performance environments, such as sensor based robot control and autonomous vehicles.