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Anouck Girard

Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering

1320 Beal Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Office: 3049 FXB Building

Phone: (734) 647-4692
Fax (unsecured): (734) 763-0578

Email:

MACCCS Center

Annual Review 2010: September 1 and 2, 2010 at UM

Presentations, etc...

Upcoming Travel

August 9, 2010: AFOSR Review in Washington, DC

Aug 10-20: Europe

The best way to reach me during travel is by email.

Fall 2010, Winter 2011 Schedule

Teaching

No teaching this year

Office hours TBD or by appointment

Previous classes

AE551, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, UM Winter 2010

AE740, Advanced Flight Dynamics and Control, UM, Winter 2009

AE345, Flight Dynamics and Control, UM, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009

AE483, Space Systems Design, UM, Winter 2007, Winter 2008

AE740 Section 2, Autonomous Aerial Vehicles: Cooperation and Control, UM, Fall 2006

MECE E3410 Engineering Design, Columbia University, Spring 2005, Spring 2006

EEME E6612 Control of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, Columbia University, Fall 2005

ME 134 Automatic Control Systems, UC Berkeley, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004

Research

ARC lab

RASCAL lab (Columbia University)

Students

Current graduate students

Baro Huyn

Justin Jackson

Chris Orlowski

Johnhenri Richardson

Mariam Faied Abdel Moniem (Visiting Scholar)

Ricardo Bencatel (Visiting Scholar)

Previous graduate students

ZhiBo Zheng

Andy Klesh

Journal Papers (Partial List)

C. Orlowski and A. Girard, Modeling and Simulation of the Nonlinear Dynamics of Flapping Wing Micro-Air Vehicles, Accepted for Publication in AIAA Journal, 2010
W. Wang, A. R. Girard, An Online Approach for Optimizing Sensor Activation in Supervisory Control, accepted by Automatica as a Technical Note, 2010
W. Wang, A. R. Girard, and C. Gong, Computing all Minimal Sensor Activation Policies, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Conditionally accepted as a technical note), 2010
W. Wang, S. Lafortune, A. R. Girard, and F. Lin, Optimal Dynamic Sensor Activation for Event Diagnosis in Discrete Event Systems, Automatica, Volume 46, Issue 7 (July 2010) Pages: 1165-1175
B. Lavis, A.T. Klesh, and A.R. Girard, Control of Mobile Sensor Networks: A State-of-the-Art Review Accepted for the ASME Journal of Measurements, Dynamics and Control (Invited), 2010
W. Wang, S. Lafortune, F. Lin, and A. R. Girard, Minimization of Dynamic Sensor Activation in Discrete Event Systems for the Purpose of Control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to be Published, November 2010 Issue.
H.J. Palantandalam-Madapusi, A.R. Girard and D.S. Bernstein, Wind-field Reconstruction From Flight Data Using an Unbiased Minimum-variance Unscented Filter, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control, Special Issue on Measurement & Estimation for Unmanned Navigation, first published Feb 24, 2010.
M. Faied, I. Assanein and A.R. Girard, UAV Dynamic Mission Management in Adversarial Environments, International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2009
S.C. Spry and A.R. Girard, Gyroscopic Stabilization of Unstable Vehicles: Configurations, Dynamics and Control, Vehicle System Dynamics, 2008
A.R. Girard, A.S. Howell and J.K. Hedrick, Hybrid Supervisory Control for Real-Time Embedded Bus Rapid Transit Applications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2005.
A.R. Girard, J. Sousa and J.K. Hedrick, A Selection of Recent Advances in Networked Vehicle Systems, IMECHE Journal of Systems and Control Engineering – Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I, 2004
A.R. Girard, S.C. Spry and J.K. Hedrick, Real-Time Embedded Hybrid Control Software for Intelligent Cruise Control Applications, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Special Issue on ITS – Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 22-28.
A.R. Girard and J.K. Hedrick, Formation Control of Multiple Vehicles using Dynamic Surface Control and Hybrid Systems, International Journal of Control, 2003, Vol. 76, No. 9/10, pp. 913-923
A.R. Girard, D.M. Empey, S.C. Spry, J.K. Hedrick and W.C. Webster, An Experimental Testbed for Mobile Offshore Base Control Concepts, Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 2003, Vol. 7, pp. 109-118
A.R. Girard, J. Sousa and J.K. Hedrick, A Hierarchical Control Architecture for the Mobile Offshore Base, Marine Structures Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4-5, July 2000, pp.459-476

Ph.D. Dissertation and Masters Thesis

Anouck Girard, Hybrid System Architectures for Coordinated Vehicle Control, Ph.D. Dissertation, Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, May 2002.
Anouck Girard, A Convenient State Machine Formalism for High-Level Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Master of Science in Ocean Engineering Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, May 1998.