Hypersonic Vehicle Control Research Team

The PI has led many large aerospace research related projects over the past 20 years (see CV). These efforts have included GNC for fixed- and rotary-winged aircraft, tilt-wing rotorcraft, missiles, and UAVs with highly uncertain nonlinear dynamics, aero-propulsion interactions, flexible modes, uncertain actuators and sensors, and hard constraint limits. Recently, he worked with NASA ARC researchers on problems related to real-time health monitoring and the design of fault tolerant embedded control systems.

The PI will be assisted by an experienced PhD research assistant as well as two experts:

• Dr. Brett Ridely, Autopilot Group Manager, Raytheon, Tucson, AZ;



• Professor Petros Voulgaris, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana.

• vehicle modeling and control [5]-[42], [43]-[60], [223]-[248],


• classical control [211], [220]-[222],


• modern control [212]-[219],


• gain scheduling [61]-[66], [80], [101],


• quasi-LPV modeling and control [43], [69]-[78], [207]-[209],


• constraint enforcement methods [187]-[198], [199], [213],


• GPC [166]-[186],


• adaptive control [135]-[156],


• fault tolerant control [107]-[127], and


• sampled-data control [163]-[165].