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Spacecraft Fixed Wing Propeller Plane Spiri Quadrotor Q-Ball Quadcopter

Recent Publications
in Aerospace Mechatronics

   Hernandez, J.C. and M. Nahon, "Nonlinear Control for Semi-autonomous Operation of Agile Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,'' Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Vol. 105, No. 3, pp. 1-22, 2022.
   Wehbeh, J., and I. Sharf, "An MPC Formulation on SO(3) for a Quadrotor With Bidirectional Thrust and Nonlinear Thrust Constraints,'' IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 7, No.2, pp. 4945-4952, 2022.
   Yousefi, E., D.P. Losey, and I. Sharf, "Assisting Operators of Articulated Machinery with Optimal Planning and Goal Inference,'' 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2832-2838, 2022.
   Tin, F.E., A. Borowczyk, I. Sharf, and M. Nahon, "Turn Decisions for Autonomous Thermalling of Unmanned Aerial Gliders. Journal of Intelligen,'' Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Vol. 104, No.2, pp. 1-18, 2022.
   Bulka, E. and M. Nahon, "A Unified Control Strategy for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles,'' Autonomous Robots, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 859-883, 2021.
   Hu, Y., I. Sharf, and L. Chen, "Distributed orbit determination and observability analysis for satellite constellations with angles-only measurements,'' Automatica, Vol. 129, 109626, 2021.
   Jorgensen, M.K. and I. Sharf, "Effect of Release Conditions on Casualty Risk Factor in Uncontrolled Re-entry of Large Space Debris,'' Advances in Space Research, Vol. 68, pp. 25-42, 2021.
   Hernandez, J.C. and M. Nahon, "A Gravity-Referenced Moving Frame for Vehicle Path following Applications in 3D,'' IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 4393-4400, 2021.
   Wehbeh, J., S. Rahman, and I. Sharf, "Distributed model predictive control for UAVs collaborative payload transport,'' 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 11666-11672, 2020.
   Rezaei-Shoshtari, S., D. Meger, and I. Sharf, "Learning the latent space of robot dynamics for cutting interaction inference,'' 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5672-5632, 2020.
   Botta, E.M., C. Miles, and I. Sharf, "Simulation and tension control of a tether-actuated closing mechanism for net-based capture of space debris,'' Acta Astronautica, Vol. 174, pp. 347-358, 2020.
   Song, H. and I. Sharf, "Time Optimal Motion Planning with ZMP Stability Constraint for Timber Manipulation,'' 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4934-4940, 2020.
   Battiston, A., I. Sharf, and M. Nahon, "Attitude estimation for collision recovery of a quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles,'' The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 38, No. 10-11, pp. 1286-1306, 2019.
   Sagnières, L.B.M. and I. Sharf, "Long-Term Rotational Motion Analysis and Comparison to Observations of The Inoperative Envisat,'' American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 364-376, 2019.
   Levin, J.M., A.A. Paranjape, and M. Nahon, "Agile Maneuvering with a Small Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,'' Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 116, pp. 148-161, 2019.
   Al-Solihat, M.K., M. Nahon, and K. Behdinan, "Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of a Spar Floating Offshore Wind Turbine with Consideration of the Rotor Speed Variations,'' Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 141, No. 8, 2019.
   Bulka, E. and M. Nahon, "Automatic Control for Aerobatic Maneuvering of Agile Fixed-Wing UAVs,'' Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp. 85-100, 2019.
Levin, J., A. Paranjape and M. Nahon, "Sideslip and Slipstream in Extreme Maneuvering with Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,'' AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 41, No. 7, pp. 1610-1616, 2018.
   Sagnières, L.B.M. and I. Sharf, "Stochastic Modeling of Hypervelocity Impacts in Attitude Propagation of Space Debris,'' Advances in Space Research, Vol. 59, pp. 1128-1143, 2017.
Dicker, G., F. Chui and I. Sharf, "Quadrotor collision characterization and recovery control,'' 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5830-5836, 2017.
   St-Onge, D., P.-Y. Breches, I. Sharf, N. Reeves, I. Rekleitis, P. Abouzakhm, Y. Girdhar, A. Harmat, G. Dudeck and P. Giguere, "Control, Localization and Human Interaction with an Autonomous Lighter-than-air Performer,'' Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 88, pp. 165-186, 2017.
Chen, W., S. Bifeng and M. Nahon, "Adaptive Robust Backstepping Control for Quadrotor Robot in Presence of Payload Variation and Unknown Disturbances,'' International Journal of Control and Automation, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 417-434, 2016.
   Botta, E.M, I. Sharf, A.K. Misra and Teichmann, M. , "On the Simulation of Tether-Nets for Space Debris Capture with Vortex Dynamics,'' Acta Astronautica, Vol. 123, pp. 91-102, 2016.
Tribou, M.J., A. Harmat, D.W.L Wang, I. Sharf and S. L. Waslander, "Multi-Camera Parallel Tracking and Mapping with Non-overlapping Fields of View,'' International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 34, pp. 1480-1500, 2015.
   Zhang, F., I. Sharf, A.K. Misra and P. Huang, "On-line Estimation of Inertia Parameters of Space Debris for its Tether-assisted Removal,'' Acta Astronautica, Vol. 107, pp. 150-162, 2015.
Khan, W. and M. Nahon, "Development and Validation of a Propeller Slipstream Model for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,'' AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 1985-1994, 2015.
Khan, W. and M. Nahon, "A Propeller Model for General Forward Flight Conditions,'' International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Vol. 3, No. 2/3, pp. 72-92, 2015.
Dhanji, N., M. Nahon and E. Dupuis, "Comparative Study of Aerial Platforms for Mars Exploration,'' Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 68, 2015.

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