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2012-2011

Fravolini, M. L., Pastorelli, M., Pagnottelli, S., Valigi, P., Gururajan, S., Chao, H., Napolitano, M.R., “Model-Based approaches for the Airspeed Estimation and Fault Monitoring of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,” 2012 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems, Perugia, Italy, September 2012.

Rhudy, M., Gross, J., Gu, Y., and Napolitano, M. R., “Fusion of GPS and Redundant IMU Data for Attitude Estimation,” AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, AIAA-2012-5030, Minneapolis, MN, August, 2012.

Rhudy, M., Gu, Y., and Napolitano, M. R., “Relaxation of Initial Error and Noise Bounds for Stability of GPS/INS Attitude Estimation,” AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, AIAA-2012-5031, Minneapolis, MN, August, 2012.

Guerra, M., Rhudy, M., Gu, Y., Seanor, B., and Napolitano, M. R., “Mobile Ground Control Station Development for Fault Tolerant UAV Research,” AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, AIAA-2012-4544, Minneapolis, MN, August, 2012.

Gururajan, S., Gu, Y., Seanor, B., Prucz, J., Napolitano, M., “Evolution of the Flight Testing Program at West Virginia University in Support of Flight Control Research,” 52nd Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences, Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb 29 – Mar 1, 2012.

Gururajan, S., McGrail, A., Gu, Y., Seanor, B., Napolitano, M., Prucz, J., Phillips, K., “Identification of Aerodynamic Parameters for a Small UAV from Flight Data,” 52nd Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences, Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb 29 – Mar 1, 2012.

Gross, J., Gu, Y., Rhudy, M., Gururajan, S., and Napolitano, M.R., “Flight Test Evaluation of Sensor Fusion Algorithms for Attitude Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 48, No. 3, July 2012, pp. 2128-2139

Rhudy, M., Gu, Y., Gross, J., and Napolitano, M.R., “Evaluation of Matrix Square Root Operations for UKF Within a UAV-Based GPS/INS Sensor Fusion Application,,” International Journal Of Navigation and Observation, Vol. 2011, Article ID 416828, December 2011.

Rhudy, M., Gu, Y., Gross, J., and Napolitano, M. R., “Sensitivity Analysis of EKF and UKF in GPS/INS Sensor Fusion,” 2011 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Portland, OR, August, 2011.

Gross, J., Gu, Y., Rhudy, M., Barchesky, F., and Napolitano, M.R. “On-line Modeling and Calibration of Low-Cost Navigation Sensors,” 2011 AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, Portland, OR, August, 2011.

Barchesky, F.,Gross, J., Gu, Y., Rhudy, M., Gururajan, S., and Napolitano, M.R. “Development of a GPS/INS Sensor Fusion Simulation Environment Using Flight Data,” 2011 AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, Portland, OR, August, 2011.

Merceruio, Z., Phillips, K., Gu, Y., Gururajan, S., and Napolitano, M.R., “Aerodynamic and Thrust Force Modeling for a Propulsion Assisted Control Aircraft Test Bed,” 2011 AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Portland, OR, August, 2011.

Gross, J., Gu, Y., Rhudy, M.*, Barchesky, F., and Napolitano, M.R. “On-line Modeling and Calibration of Low-Cost Navigation Sensors,” 2011 AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, Portland, OR, August, 2011.

Gu, Y., Campa, G., Innocenti, M., “Formation Flight Control,” Editorial, International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, In Press, June, 2011.

2011-2010

Tancredi, D., Gu, Y., Phillips, K., Gururajan, S., and Napolitano, M.R., “Development of Adaptive Control Laws for Actuator Fault Accommodation,” 2010 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 2-5, 2010.

Campa G., Fravolini M.L., Mammarella M., Napolitano M.R. “Bounding Set Calculation for Neural Network Based Output Feedback Adaptive Control Systems”, Neural Computing and Applications. On-line: DOI: 10.1007/s00521-010-0404-6. April 2010

Phillips, K., Gururajan, S., Campa, G., Seanor, B., Gu, Y., and Napolitano, M.R., “Nonlinear Aircraft Model Identification and Validation for a Fault-Tolerant Flight Control System,” 2010 AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Control ID#: 809261, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 2-5, 2010.

Mammarella M., Campa G., Napolitano M.R., Fravolini M.L. "Comparison of Point Matching Algorithms for the UAV Aerial Refueling Problem", Machine Vision and Applications, Vol. 21, No. 3,pp. 241-251, 2010, Springer ISSN 0932-8092

2010-2009

Gross, J., Gu, Y., Seanor, B., Gururajan, S., and Napolitano, M.R., “Advanced Research Integrated Avionics (ARIA) System for Fault-Tolerant Flight Research,” 2009 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA-2009-5659, Chicago, Illinois, Aug. 10-13, 2009.

Phillips, K., Campa, G., Gururajan, S., Seanor, B., Napolitano, M., Gu, Y., Fravolini, M., “Parameter Identification for Application within a Fault-Tolerant Flight Control System”, AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, AIAA-2009-5723, Aug. 10-13, 2009, Chicago, IL, USA.

Gu, Y., Campa, G., Seanor, B., Gururajan, S., and Napolitano, M.R., “Autonomous Formation Flight – Design and Experiments,” In Aerial Vehicles, ISBN 978-953-7619-41-1, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Austria, EU, Chapter 12, pp. 233-256, January 2009.

2009-Earlier

Gu, Y., Campa, G., Seanor, B., Gururajan, S., Napolitano, M.R., “Autonomous Formation Flight – Design and Experiments”, book chapter, In Intelligent Aerial Vehicles, accepted, to be published on December 2008, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Austria, EU.

Gu, Y., Seanor, B., Gururajan, S., and Napolitano, M.R., “Integrated Avionics System for Research UAVs”, 2008 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, 18-21 Aug. 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Effland, J., Seanor, B., Gu, Y., Napolitano, M., “Application of Machine Vision in Unmanned Aerial Systems for Autonomous Target Tracking”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA 2008-7251, August 18-21, 2008, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Jarrell, J., Gu, Y., Seanor, B., Napolitano, M., “Aircraft Attitude, Position, and Velocity Determination Using Sensor Fusion”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA 2008-7422, August 18-21, 2008, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Gu, Y., Sagoo, G., Seanor, B., Campa, G., Napolitano, M., “Curvature-Velocity-Orientation Method for UAV Collision Avoidance”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA 2008-6628, August 18-21, 2008, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Mammarella, M., Campa, G., Napolitano, M., Seanor, B., Fravolini, M., Pollini, L., “GPS / MV based Aerial Refueling for UAVs”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA 2008-August 18-21, 2008, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Mammarella, M., Campa, G., Fravolini, M., Gu, Y., Seanor, B., Napolitano, M., “A Comparison of Optical Flow algorithms for Real Time Aircraft Guidance and Navigation”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA 2008-7494, August 18-21, 2008, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Campa, G., Mammarella, M., Cukic, B., Gu, Y., Napolitano, M.R., and Fuller, E., “Calculation of Bounding Sets for Neural Network Based Adaptive Control Systems”, 2008 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, AIAA 2008-6778, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2008.

Fravolini, M.L, Campa, G., Napolitano, M.R., “Design of Redundancy Relations for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle FDI”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit, Hilton Village, Aug. 18-21, 2008, HI, USA.

Fravolini, M. L., Campa, G., Ficola, A., Napolitano, M. R., Seanor, B., "Modeling and Performance Analysis of Machine Vision-Based Semi-Autonomous Aerial Refueling", International Journal of Modeling Identification and Control, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2008.

Fravolini, M. L., Campa, G., Brunori, V., Campa, G., Napolitano, M.R., La Cava, M., “A structural analysis approach for the generation of structured residuals for aircraft FDI”, Submitted to: IEEE Transaction On Aerospace and Electronic Systems, June 2007, Accepted May 2008, Final proof copy submitted June 2008.

Campa, G., Napolitano, M. R., Fravolini, M. L., "A Simulation Environment for Machine Vision Based Aerial Refueling for UAV", Submitted to: IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol.44, No 4, October 2008.

Fravolini, M. L., Campa, G., Ficola, A., Napolitano, M. R., Seanor, B. "Modeling and Performance Analysis of Machine Vision-Based Semi-Autonomous Aerial Refuelling", International Journal of Modeling Identification and Control, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2008.

Campa, G., Thiagarajan, M., Krishnamurty, M., Napolitano, M. R., Gautam, M., "A Neural Network Based Sensor Validation Scheme for Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines", ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control. pp 021008-1 to 021008-10, Vol 130, March 2008.

Mammarella, M., Campa, G., Fravolini M. L., Gu, Y., Napolitano M. R., Seanor B. “A comparison of Optical Flow algorithms for use within Real-time applications”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, Submitted December 2008 (Under Review).

Fravolini, M., L., Campa, G., “Design of Robust Redundancy Relations with Application to a Semi-Scale Yf-22 Research Aircraft Model”, Submitted to: Control Engineering Practice, November 2007. First Revision sent October 2008 (Under Review).

Fravolini, M., L., Campa, G., Napolitano, M. R., “An Explicit Feedforward and Feedback Technique for Flight Control Systems of High Performance Aircrafts”, Submitted to: Automatic Control in Aerospace, September 2008. First Revision sent November 2008 (Under Review).

Campa, G., Gu, Y., Seanor, B., Napolitano, M. R., Pollini, L., Fravolini, M. L., "Design And Flight Testing Of Nonlinear Formation Control Laws", Control Engineering Practice, pp 1077-1092, Vol. 15, Issue 9, September 2007.

Fravolini, M. L., Campa, G., Napolitano, M. R., "Evaluation of Machine Vision Algorithms for Autonomous Aerial Refueling for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication, Vol. 4, No. 9, September 2007.