Christopher Edwards Email Biography Christopher Edwards (M'05) received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in mathematics from the University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K., in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in control from the University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K., in 1995. He is a Professor of Control Engineering with the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K. He has coauthored 400 refereed papers in his areas of interest and of three books: Sliding Mode Control: Theory and Applications (Taylor & Francis, 1998), Fault Detection and Fault Tolerant Control using Sliding Modes (Springer-Verlag, 2011), and Sliding Mode Control and Observation (Birkhauser, 2013). In addition, he recently co-edited the monograph Fault Tolerant Flight Control: A Benchmark Challenge (Springer-Verlag, 2010). His research interests include sliding-mode control and observation and applications to fault detection and fault-tolerant control. Dr. Edwards is currently the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Variable Structure Systems. Position(s) & Affiliation(s) University of Exeter United Kingdom
