Michigan/AFRL Collaborative Center in Control Science

Aerospace, Robotics, and Control Laboratory (ARC Lab)

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Pictures

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ARC Lab

Trip to Dayton

Video

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• UAV Helicopter flanking ground vehicle (Hi-res)
• UAV Helicopter flanking ground vehicle (Low-res)






• Single UAV Helicopter in formation with user (Hi-res)
• Single UAV Helicopter in formation with user (Low-res)






• 2 UAV Helicopters in formation with user (Hi-res)
• 2 UAV Helicopters in formation with user (Low-res)

Papers (U-M)

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• Underwater Vehicle Autopilots with Adaptive Dynamic Surface Control
  Z. Zheng, J. Estrela da Silva, J.B. de Sousa and A.R. Girard
  Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Conference, 2008
• UAV Adversarial Operations
  Mariam Faied and Anouck R. Girard
  Proceedings of the AIAA GNC Conference, 2008
• Real-Time Path Planning for Time-Optimal Exploration
  Andrew T. Klesh, Anouck R. Girard and Pierre T. Kabamba
  Proceedings of the AIAA GNC Conference, 2008
• Autonomous Decision Making with Uncertainty for an Urban ISR Scenario
  Raymond W. Holsapple, Phillip R. Chandler, John J. Baker, Anouck R. Girard and Meir Pachter
  Proceedings of the AIAA GNC Conference, 2008
• Path Planning for Cooperative Time-Optimal Information Collection
  Andrew T. Klesh, Anouck R. Girard and Pierre T. Kabamba
  Proceedings of the American Control Conference ACC 2008 (Invited)
• Wind-field Reconstruction using Flight Data
  Harish J. Palantandalam-Madapusi, Anouck R. Girard and Dennis S. Bernstein
  Proceedings of the American Control Conference ACC 2008
• Leaderless Formation Control using Dynamic Extension and Sliding Control
  Zhibo Zheng, Stephen C. Spry and Anouck R. Girard
  Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, 2008 (Invited)
• Dynamics and Control of Surface Exploration Robots on Asteroids
  Julie Bellerose, Anouck Girard and Daniel Scheeres
  Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, Gainesville, FL, January, 2008
• Cooperative Thermalling: Extending the Endurance of UAVs
  Andrew T. Klesh, Anouck R. Girard and Pierre T. Kabamba
  Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, Gainesville, FL, January, 2008
• Human Operator Aided Decision Processes for UAVs in a Stochastic Environment
  John Baker, Raymond Holsapple, Anouck R. Girard, Phillip Chandler and Meir Pachter
  Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, Gainesville, FL, January, 2008
• Control of Mobile Sensor Networks: A State-of-the-Art Review
  J. Love, B. Basso, A. Klesh, K. Hedrick and A.R. Girard
  Plenary Session Paper, ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Conference, 2008
• Hybrid System Modeling for UAV Adversarial Operations
  M. Faied and A.R.Girard
  Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Conference, 2008
• Solar-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Mars: Perpetual Endurance
  Andrew T. Klesh, Pierre T. Kabamba
• Wind-field Reconstruction Using Flight Data
  Harish J. Palanthandalam-Madapusi, Anouck Girard, and Dennis S. Bernstein
• Path Planning for Cooperative Time-Optimal Information Collection
  Andrew T. Klesh, Pierre T. Kabamba and Anouck R. Girard
• Leaderless Formation Control using Dynamic Extension and Sliding Control
  Zhibo Zheng, Stephen C. Spry, Anouck R. Girard
• Gyroscopic Stabilization of Unstable Vehicles: Configurations, Dynamics, and Control
  Stephen C. Spry, Anouck R. Girard

Papers (MIT)

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• Complex mission optimization for multiple UAVs using linear temporal logic
  S. Karaman and E. Frazzoli
  In American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, 2008
• Vehicle routing with linear temporal logic specifications: Applications to multi-UAV mission planning
  S. Karaman and E. Frazzoli
  In AIAA Conf. on Guidance, Navigation, and Control, Honolulu, HI, 2008 (To appear)
• Vehicle routing problem with metric temporal logic specifications
  S. Karaman and E. Frazzoli
  In IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, 2008 (To appear)
• Optimal control of mixed logical dynamical systems with linear temporal logic specifications.
  S. Karaman, R. Sanfelice, and E. Frazzoli
  In IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, 2008 (To appear)
• Human-in-the-loop vehicle routing policies for dynamic environments.
  K. Savla, T. Temple, and E. Frazzoli
  In IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, 2008 (To appear)
• Efficient routing of multiple vehicles for humansupervised services in a dynamic environment.
  K. Savla, T. Temple, and E. Frazzoli
  In AIAA Conf. on Guidance, Navigation, and Control, Honolulu, HI, 2008 (To appear)

Collbrative Center Kickoff Meeting (PDF Format)

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• Welcome Presentation
• Prof. Anouck Girard (U-M)
• Prof. Emilio Frazzoli (MIT)
• Dr. Corey Schumacher (AFRL)
• Prof. Carlos E. S. Cesnik (U-M)

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Six Month Review Meeting (Controls) 4/3/2008

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• Formal Approaches to Mission Planning using Temporal Logics (MIT)
• Humans-in-the-Loop Target Classification (MIT)
• Path Planning for Time-Optimal Information Collection (U-M)
• Team Performance of Unmanned Vehicles with Diverse Capabilities (U-M)
• Hybrid System Modeling for UAV Adversarial Operations (U-M)
• Operator Aided Decision Processes for UAVs in a Stochastic Environment (U-M)

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