Marco Cecotti
Robotics & Control Systems Specialist
Robotics and control systems specialist with eight years of automotive R&D at Tata Motors and Dyson, delivering EV supervisory controllers, automated vehicle demonstrators, and AUTOSAR/ISO 26262 process improvements. Now Lecturer at Cranfield University and PI of the £267k Driven by Sound project, delivering Cranfield's first automated car.
Work Experience
Lead automated-vehicle R&D at Cranfield; manage Innovate UK projects and a team of two researchers delivering Cranfield's first automated passenger car.
- Course Director, MSc in Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Engineering: coordinate eleven Module Leaders across seven centres; lead recruitment, marketing, induction and prize-giving
- Supervised 42 MSc and 5 PhD students
- PI, Driven by Sound (Innovate UK ref. 10059986), 2024–2025: £267k to Cranfield from a £912k project
- Led EPSRC automated-scooter project after PI's departure; integrated full ROS stack to demonstrate automated driving on pedestrian areas
- MuCCA (UKRI ref. 103286): developed sensor fusion algorithms for cooperative automated vehicles
Control Systems development for the Dyson EV. Drafted requirements for the Vehicle Supervisory Controller; defined system and software development processes aligned to ISO 26262 and AUTOSAR.
Led control system development for the LowCAP range-extender demonstrator (UKRI ref. 101572) and for the automated-vehicle demonstrator within the UK Autodrive project (UKRI ref. 102201).
- Defined hardware/software control architecture; authored system and component requirements
- Commissioned range extender on the dyno (with Ashwoods Automotive and University of Bath)
- Trajectory planning and motion control for automated demonstrator; vehicle testing at Gaydon proving ground
Vehicle Supervisory Controller commissioning and validation at the Gaydon proving ground for the Tata Manza range-extended EV demonstrator. Supported tool selection and software quality improvements (coding guidelines, requirements traceability).
- Verified electrical/software integration and validated driveability features (hill hold, creep, gear change, range extender control)
- Designed test cases against requirements; contributed to telematic unit integration
Education
- GPA: 110/110 cum laude
- GPA: 93/110
Skills
Volunteer Experience
Volunteered as a judge at Silverstone for three consecutive years.
Connect students with guest speakers; lend equipment for practical activities.