John Valasek is Director of the Center for Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Systems, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, and a member of the Honors Faculty, at Texas A&M University. He has been conducting flight mechanics and control research of manned and unmanned air vehicles in industry and academia for more than 25 years. The author of two recent books Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures (2012) and Advances in Intelligent and Autonomous Aerospace Systems (2012) he is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, a member of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee, and an Ass...