2021

November:

Congratulations to Rajnish Bhusal on getting his paper titled, “Robust Stability Margin of Continuous-Time Cooperative Unmanned Systems” accepted for publication in the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Congratulations to Uluhan Cem Kaya on getting his paper titled, “Momentum Preserving Simulation of Cooperative Multi-Rotors with Flexible-Cable Suspended Payload” accepted for publication in the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control

July:

Great job Rajnish Bhusal on successfully defending your PhD dissertation titled “Uncertainty Propagation, Control, and Estimation of Stochastic Dynamic Systems Using Generalized Polynomial Chaos Expansion

June:

Great job Kati Balachandran on successfully defending your PhD dissertation titled “Shape Modeling, Attitude Estimation and Classification of Artificial Resident Space Objects Using Photometric Light Curves”.

Kati’s paper titled, “Comparison of Deterministic Methods to Estimate Sidereal Rotation Period From Light Curves” has been accepted for publication in the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. Congratulations Kati!

Kamalkumar Mehta successfully defended his thesis titled, “Object Classi fication, Detection and State Estimation using YOLO v3 Deep Neural Network and Sensor Fusion of Stereo Camera and LiDAR“. Great job Kamal! We are proud of you.

May:

Diganta’s paper titled, “Set-Membership Filter for Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems Using State Dependent Coefficient Parameterization”, is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Congratulations Diganta.

Rajnish and Diganta receive the Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School. Congratulations to both of you.

April:

Dr. Subbarao receives the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award (Tenured Faculty) award for 2021

Dr. Subbarao is elected Fellow of the American Astronautical Society.

Dr. Subbarao was nominated for the university wide Outstanding Academic Advisor for 2020-21. This is the second nomination for the same in 3 years. A sincere thanks to the students who took the time to nominate me.

Anant Joshi and Kamesh Subbarao, “Uncertainty Quantification and Analysis of Dynamical Systems with Invariants”, which appeared at the 2019 Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, was selected as the recipient of the Best Paper Award for the 2019 Space Flight Mechanics Meeting.

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March:

Baris and Rajnish’s paper titled “A Nested Robust Controller Design for Interconnected Linear Parameter Varying Aerial Vehicles” was accepted for publication in the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics.

February:

Diganta’s paper titled “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control and Collision Cone-Based Missile Guidance Algorithm” accepted for the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. We co-authored this paper with Dr. Animesh Chakravarthy.

January:

A very happy new year to all of you.

Welcome Mayuko Shinohara (MS, AE), Steven George (MS, AE), and Sagar Roka (PhD, AE) to ASL.