Control Systems
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GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
School of Aerospace Engineering
Date: June 2012 Full Name: Eric Marie Jacques FERON
School of Aerospace
1. Date of Birth: February 19, 1967
2. Citizenship: US and France
3. Education:
School Degree Date
Stanford University Ph.D. 01/94
Ecole Normale Sup rieure DEA (equivalent M.S.) 09/90
Ecole Polytechnique B.S. 09/89
4. Title of Thesis for Most Advanced Degree:
Linear Matrix Inequalities for the Problem of Absolute Stability of Automatic Control
5. Principal Fields of Interest:
System Guidance and Control, optimization with applications to autonomous aerial
vehicles, air transportation systems and embedded software.
6. Name and Rank of Other Department Faculty in the Same Field:
John-Paul Clarke
Wassim Haddad
Eric Johnson
Panagiotis Tsiotras
Amy Pritchett
Karen Feigh
JVR Prasad
Mark Costello
7. Name and Rank of Faculty in Other Departments in the Same Field:
Arkadiy Nemirovski (ISyE)
George Vastchevanos (ECE)
Magnus Egerstedt (ECE)
Jeff Shamma (ECE)
Mayur Naish (CS)
8. Non-GTech Experience:
Employer Position Beginning Ending
Ministry of Defense, France Engineer 1990 1993
Massachusetts Inst. Technology Assistant Professor 1993 1999
Massachusetts Inst. Technology Associate Professor 1999 2005
Nascent Technology Corp. Chairman Board 2002 2005
Institut Sup rieur de
l A ronautique et de l Espace Visiting Professor 2012 2012
Ecole Nationale de
l Aviation Civile Visiting Professor 2011 2011
Ecole Nationale Sup rieure de
l'Electricit, Electronique
Informatique et Hydraulique Visiting Professor 2012 2012
9. History of Academic Appointments:
Rank Beginning Ending
Assistant Professor (MIT) 11/93 6/99
Associate Professor (MIT/without tenure) 7/99 6/01
Associate Professor (MIT/with tenure) 7/01 08/05
Professor (GTech/with tenure) 09/05 ---
10. Consulting Record:
Firm Beginning Ending
ONERA-CERT 05/94 06/94
ONERA-CERT 05/95 06/95
United Technologies 05/95 05/95
ONERA-CERT 05/96 06/96
United Technologies 02/97 04/97
Northwest Airlines 06/00 12/00
Valeo 02/04 02/04
Nascent Technology Corp. 01/02 08/05
11. Department and Institute Committees, Other Assigned Duties:
Activity Beginning Ending
Undergraduate Committee /MIT 09/94 09/95
IAP committee for A/A /MIT 09/94 09/98
Department History & Gardner Lecture/MIT 01/96 08/05
Doctoral Committee/MIT 11/00 08/05
Committee on Operations Research Center/MIT 11/01 08/05
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Committee on Computing/GTech Aerospace 09/05
12. Professional Service:
Committee Beginning Ending
Third SIAM Conference 09/93 04/95
on Control Theory and Applications, Technical
Committee
Reviewer for AFOSR and NRC proposals. 09/93
Guest Editor for the International Journal of
Robust and Nonlinear Control, special issue on
Linear Matrix Inequalities. 09/93 09/96
Guest Editor for the Journal of Ecole Polytechnique,
France (equivalent Technology Review), special issue
on Air Traffic. 03/97 05/98
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control. 10/97 12/00
Technical Committee Program Member, 1999
American Control Conference. 12/97 12/98
ONERA Airport Research Project Evaluation
03/00 03/00
Member, panel on "Future Directions in Control
and Dynamical Systems", sub panelist in Aerospace
and Transportation. Organized by SIAM. 05/00 07/00
NSF proposal review panel member 06/00 06/00
DARPA/NSF hybrid systems panel member 10/00 10/00
Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Robust
Control 11/00 11/03
North America Advisor for Acad mie Nationale
des Technologies (French equivalent to National
Academy of Engineering) 12/00
Technical Committee Program Member, 2002
American Control Conference 12/00 12/01
NSF proposal review panel 04/01 ---
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Associate Editor, International Journal of Robust
and Nonlinear Control 01/02 01/03
Chair, Local arrangements, 2004 ACC 01/02 08/05
Safety area Program manager, MIT-Ford Alliance01/02 08/05
US Girls Scout Aeronautical Instructor 01/02 08/05
MIT Museum: Participant and Presenter during
National Engineers Week. Theme: Stability and
Instability 03/02 04/04
Review of several (>15) promotion cases
(tenure, full) 2001 ---
Autonomous Intelligent Network and Systems
Conference 2004 2004
Associate Editor, Journal of Field Robotics 2004 ---
Abstractions, Robustness and Computations
Workshop Upenn co-organizer with Patrick
Cousot 2004 08/05
NSV-II: Second International Workshop
on Numerical Software Verification. 01/09 04/09
NSV-II: Second International Workshop
on Numerical Software Verification. 01/11 07/11
Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man
And Cybernetics, part A 07/11 ---
Organizer, Workshop on Control software
Verification, Georgia Tech, 08/11 11/11
Committee Member, NASA Formal Methods 06/12 04/13
Organizer, Workshop on Future Directions in
Decision and Control in Aerospace 09/11 05/12
Advisory Board member, AIAA JACIC 06/12
13. Awards Received:
Award received Date
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Charles Stark Draper Chair 11/93
NSF Research Initiation Award 09/94
NASA Certificate of Recognition 02/98
ONR Young Investigator Award 02/99
Best paper award, Arrival and Departure
Management track, 3rd USA/Europe
Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar 06/00
Advisor, French Academy of Technologies 01/01
Member, Think Tank 30
Club of Rome (resigned 08/01 for lack of time) 7/01
Best track, session and conference paper award,
2001 Digital Avionics
Systems Conference 10/01
Dutton/Ducoffe Professorship in Aerospace
Software Engineering 09/05
Certificate of appreciation, Thank a Teacher
Program, Georgia Institute of Technology 03/09
American Publishers Award (PROSE award) 04/09
Andrew Sage best paper award, IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 10/10
RTCA William Jackson award (to student
Maxime Gariel) 06/11
Best track paper award, 2011 Digital Avionics
Systems Conference 10/11
Awards Given
Athena-Feron prize in Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering honoring mathematical excellence
(Prize established for Princeton University)
Recipients:
Zhanhua Ma 2006
14. Current Organization Memberships:
Organization Offices Held
AIAA associate fellow
IEEE member
15. Patents and Patent Applications Pending:
A passive stabilization system for wheeled luggage and other towed wheeled
devices
Patent Pending
16. Professional Registration:
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FAA licensed pilot (private VFR)
17. Major New Products, Processes, Designs, or Systems:
Wavetool: A software tool to perform transfer function identification
via wavelets. (In use at NASA).
AOCMOD: A discrete-event software simulation of an Airline Operations Center. (In
use at United Airlines).
Autonomous agile helicopter: Product manufactured under MIT license by Nascent
Technology Corp. and delivered to Oregon Graduate Institute (1 copy), Lockheed
Martin Owego (2 copies), University of North Carolina (1 copy). Other derivative
products: Simulations of small aerobatic helicopters.
Press and other non-academic coverage
18.
Research covered by many daily and periodical, national and international
newspapers, broadcast media and electronic newsletters, such as the Boston Globe,
Slash-dot, Aviation Week and Space Technology, Science, Science et Avenir, Air et
Cosmos. Covereage in the United States, France, Germany, UK, Greece, Italy, Brazil,
Russia, Hungary and others.
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Teaching & Educational Contributions of Eric Feron.
1. Teaching Experience
Term Subject Title Role Course type Course
Num-ber evaluation
survey given
MIT/S 16.921 Advanced Analysis of Instructor Lecture No
T94 Control Systems
FT94 16.060 Principles of automatic Recitation Lecture No
control Instructor
ST95 16.410 Intro. to Optimization Instructor Lecture No
and Decision Analysis
Su95 16.30S Practical Methods for Instructor Lecture No
Robust Control
FT95 16.338 Nonlinear Aerospace Instructor Lecture No
Control Systems
ST96 16.410 Intro. to Optimization Instructor Lecture No
and Decision Analysis
FT96 16.31 Feedback Control Instructor Lecture No
Systems
IAP97 Aerial Robotics Control Supervisor Lecture No
ST97 16.410 Intro. to Optimization Lectures, in Lecture No
and Decision Analysis charge
FT97 16.338 Nonlinear Aerospace Instructor Lecture No
Systems
IAP 98 Aircraft Pilot Ground Supervisor Lecture No
School
ST98 16.410 Intro. to Optimization Instructor Lecture No
and Decision Analysis
FT98 16.31 Feedback Control Instructor Lecture No
Systems
IAP99 Aircraft Pilot Ground Supervisor Lecture No
School
IAP99 Logan Airport Tower Supervisor Lecture No
Visit
ST99 16.410 Intro. to Optimization Instructor Lecture No
and Decision Analysis
FT99 16.338 Nonlinear Aerospace Instructor Lecture No
Systems
IAP00 Aircraft Pilot Ground Supervisor Lecture No
School
ST00 16.410 Intro. to Optimization Instructor Lecture No
and Decision Analysis
ST01 16.30 Estimation and Control Instructor Lecture Yes
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of Aerospace Systems
ST01 16.410 Principles of Automated Instructor Lecture Yes
Reasoning and Decision
Making
FT01 6.251/ Introduction to Linear Instructor Lecture Yes
15.081 Programming/Operations
Research
IAP02 16.900 Intro. to computational Instructor Lecture Yes
methods in Engineering
ST02 16.30 Estimation and Control Instructor Lecture Yes
of Aerospace Systems
ST02 16.410 Principles of Automated Instructor Lecture Yes
Reasoning and Decision
Making
FT 02 6.242 Control of Complex Guest Instructor Lecture Yes
Dynamical Systems
FT03 16.31 Feedback Control Instructor Lecture Yes
Systems
IAP04 16.900 Intro. to computational Instructor Lecture Yes
methods in Engineering
ST04 16.30 Estimation and Control Instructor Lecture Yes
of Aerospace Systems
GTech/ AE 4508 Analysis of Computer Instructor Lecture No
FT 05 Programs
GTech/ AE 3515 System Dynamics Instructor Lecture ?
ST 06
ST06 AE 4525 Control Systems Lab Instructor Lecture ?
FT 06 AE 8803 Analysis of Computer Instructor Lecture
Programs
ST 07 AE 3521 Aircraft and Space craft Instructor Lecture
Dynamics & Control
SuT07 AE 2220 Dynamics Instructor Lecture
FT 07 AE 3521 Aircraft and Spacecraft Instructor Lecture
Dynamics & Control
ST 08 AE 6531 Robust Control I Instructor Lecture Yes 2.5/5
ST 08 AE 6561 Real-Time Control Instructor Lecture Yes 3.8/5
Software
SuT 08 AE 3515 System Dynamics Instructor Lecture Yes 3.9/5
FT 08 AE 3521 Aircraft and Spacecraft Instructor Lecture Yes 3.0/5
Dynamics & Control
ST 09 AE 3515 Systems Dynamics Instructor Lecture Yes 3.0/5
SuT 09 AE 3521 Flight Dynamics Instructor Lecture Yes 4.0/5
FT 09 AE3521 Flight Dynamics Instructor Lecture Yes 3.7/5
ST 10 AE 2220 Dynamics Instructor Lecture Yes 3.6/5
FT 10 AE3521 Flight Dynamics Instructor Lecture Yes 3.9/5
ST 11 AE6531 Robust Control Systems Instructor Lecture Yes 2.5/5
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FT 11 AE 3521 Flight Dynamics Instructor Lecture Yes 3/5
2. Other Educational Contributions
Student supervisor, International Aerial Robotics Contest team. (Ranked second, 1997, best
paper presentation, 1998, best oral presentation (by club president, Paul Eremenko), AIAA
student conference, April 1999).
Advisor, Georgia Tech Rocket Club, 2011.
Advisor, Georgia Tech University Student Launch Initiative (4th place, 2012).
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Publications of Eric Feron
1. Books
1. Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory, by Boyd, S., El Ghaoui, L.,
Feron, E., and Balakrishnan, V., vol. 15 in Series in Applied Mathematics, SIAM, June
1994.
2. General Theory of Algebraic Equations, by E. Bezout, translation from French by E.
Feron. Princeton University Press, 2006. Original publication date: 1779.
2. Proceedings of Refereed Journals
1. Feron, E., "Analysis of Robust H2 Performance Using Multiplier Theory," SIAM
Journal of Control and Optimization, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 160-177, January 1997.
2. Feron, E., Apkarian, P., and Gahinet, P., "Analysis and Synthesis of Robust
Control Systems via Parameter-Dependent Lyapunov Functions," IEEE Trans.
on Automatic Control, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 1041-1046, July 1996.
3. Feron, E., "A More Reliable Robust Stability Indicator for Linear Systems
Subject to Parametric Uncertainties," IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 42,
no. 9, pp. 1326-1330, September 1997.
4. Boussios, C. and Feron, E., "Estimating the Conservatism of Popov's Criterion for
Real Parametric Uncertainties", Systems and Control Letters, pp. 173-183, August
1997.
5. Feron, E., Brenner, M., Paduano, J., and Turevskiy, A., Time-Frequency
Analysis for Transfer Function Estimation and Application to Flutter Clearance,
in AIAA J. on Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 375 382,
May - June 1998. **
6. McConley, M. W., Appleby, B. D., Dahleh, M. A., and Feron, E., Computational
Complexity of Lyapunov Stability Analysis Problems for a Class of Nonlinear
Systems, SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 2176-
2193, November 1998. **
7. Shewchun, J. M. and Feron, E., High Performance Control with Position and
Rate Limited Actuators, Int. J. Robust and Nonlinear Control, special issue on
saturating systems, vol. 9, pp. 617-630, July 1999. **
8. McConley, M. W., Appleby, B. D., Dahleh, M. A., and Feron, E., Polytopic
Lyapunov Functions for Robust Stabilization of a Class of Nonlinear Systems, in
Systems and Control Letters, pp. 77 85, May 1998. **1
** Outgrowth of supervised student research
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9. McConley, M.W., Appleby, B. D., Dahleh, M. A., and Feron, E., A
Computationally Efficient Lyapunov-Based Scheduling Procedure for Control of
Nonlinear Systems with Stability Guarantees, IEEE Trans. Aut. Control, Jan
2000. **
10. Turevskiy, A., Feron, E., and Paduano, J., Combining Physical Models and
Experimental Data for Flutter Boundary Prediction, AIAA J. on Guidance,
Control and Dynamics, vol. 22, no. 1, January-February 1999. **
11. Oh, J.H., Jamoom, M., McConley, M. and Feron, E, Solving Control Allocation
Problems using Semidefinite Programming, AIAA J. on Guidance, Control and
Dynamics, vol. 22, no. 3, May-June 1999. **
12. Pujet, N. and Feron, E., Modeling an Airline Operations Control Center, Air
Traffic Control Quarterly, vol 7, no. 4,1999.**
13. Idris, H. et al. Observation of Departure Processes at Logan Airport to Support
the Development of Departure Planning Tools, Air Traffic Control Quarterly,
vol 7, no. 4, 1999. **
14. Pujet, N., Delcaire, B. and Feron, E., Identification and Control of the Departure
Process at Busy Airports, Air Traffic Control Quarterly, vol 8, no. 1, 2000**
15. Frazzoli, E., Mao, Z.-H., Oh, J. and Feron, E.. Resolution of Conflicts Involving
many Aircraft via Semidefinite Programming, AIAA J. on Guidance, Control
and Dynamics, 2001.**
16. Mao, Z.-H., Feron, E. and Bilimoria, K. Stability and Performance of
Intersecting Aircraft Flows under Sequential Conflict Resolution, accepted for
publication in Special Air Traffic Control issue of IEEE Trans. Intelligent.
Transportation Systems. 2001.**
17. Gavrilets, V., Dahleh, M. and Feron, E. Avionics system for a small unmanned
helicopter performing aggressive maneuvers, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic
Systems Magazine, Sept 2001.**
18. Frazzoli, E, Dahleh, M. and Feron, E. Real-Time Motion Planning for Agile
Autonomous Vehicles, in AIAA J. on Guidance, Control and Dynamics, pp
116 129, No. 1, Vol. 25, Jan-Feb 2002.**
19. Gavrilets, V., Frazzoli, E., Mettler, B., Piedmonte, M., Feron, E. Aggressive
Maneuvering of Small Helicopters: A Human-Centered Approach, International
Journal on Robotics Research, Vol. 20, Number 10, Oct. 2001. **
20. L. Pallottino, E. Feron, and A. Bicchi. Conflict Resolution Problems for Air
Traffic Management Systems Solved with Mixed Integer Programming. IEEE
Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems, 3(1):3-11, March 2002.
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21. Andersson, K., Hall, W., Atkins, S. and Feron, E., Optimization-Based Analysis
of Collaborative Airport Arrival Planning, Transportation Science, 2004.**
22. A. Richards, J. How, T. Schouwenaars and E. Feron, Spacecraft trajectory
planning with collision and plume avoidance, AIAA J. on Guidance, Control and
Dynamics, Vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 755-64, 2002.**
23. V. Gavrilets, B. Mettler, and E. Feron, Human-Inspired Control Logic for
Automated Maneuvering of Miniature Helicopter, in AIAA J. on Guidance,
Control and Dynamics, 2004.**
24. B. Mettler, C. Dever, and E. Feron, Scaling Effects and Dynamic Characteristics
of Miniature Rotorcraft, AIAA J. Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 2004.**
25. Carr, F., Theis, G., Clarke, J-P and Feron, E. Evaluation of Improved Pushback
Forecasts Derived from Airline Ground Operations Data, AIAA Journal Journal
of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, 2004.**
26. Schouwenaars, Mettler, Feron, How. Hybrid Model for Trajectory Planning of
Agile Autonomous Vehicles, AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing,
Information and Communication, january 2005.**
27. Dever, Mettler, Feron, Popovic, McConley. Trajectory Interpolation for
Parametrized Maneuvering and Flexible Motion Planning of Autonomous
Vehicles, AIAA J. of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 2006.**
28. Mao, Z.H., Dugail, D. and Feron, E. Stability of intersecting aircraft flows under
heading changes IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2006.
29. Frazzoli, E. Dahleh, M.A. Feron, E. Maneuver-based motion planning for
nonlinear systems with symmetries . IEEE Transactions on Robotics and
Automation, Dec. 2005 Volume: 21, Issue: 6. On page(s): 1077- 1091
30. Schouwenaars, T; Valenti, M; Feron, E; How, J; Roche, E.
Linear Programming and Language Processing for Human/Unmanned-Aerial-
Vehicle Team Missions, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Vol. 29,
no. 2, pp. 303-313. Mar.-Apr. 2006
31. T. Schouwenaars, A. Stubbs, J. D. Paduano and Eric Feron: Multi-Vehicle Path
Planning for Non-Line of Sight Communication, Journal of Field Robotics,
2006.
32. Zhi-Hong Mao, David Dugail, and Eric Feron . Space Partition for Conflict
Resolution of Intersecting Flows of Mobile Agents Zhi-Hong Mao, David Dugail,
and Eric Feron, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol.
8, No. 3, September 2007.
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33. Bayraktar, S. and Feron, E. Experiments with small unmanned helicopter nose-
up landings, in AIAA J. on Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 2008.**
34. Lee, K., Feron, E. and Pritchett, A. Describing Airspace Complexity: Airspace
Response to Disturbances, in AIAA J. on Guidance, Control and Dynamics,
2008.**
35. Burgain, P., Feron, E. and Clarke, J.-P. Collaborative Virtual Queue: Benefit
Analysis of a Collaborative Decision Making Concept Applied to Congested
Departure Operations, Air Traffic Control Quarterly, 2009.**
36. Gariel, M. and Feron, E. Graceful Degradation of Air Traffic Operations:
Airspace Sensitivity to Degraded Surveillance Systems, Proceedings of the
IEEE, special issue on aviation information systems, 2009.**
37. Yang, J.-H., Mao, Mao, Z.-H., Tijerina L., Pilutti, T., Coughlin, J., and Feron, E.
Detection of Driver Fatigue Caused by Sleep Deprivation: Analysis on Tracking
Tasks and Inference of Driver States, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, 2009.
38. Le Ny, J., Feron, E. and Frazzoli, E., On the Curvature-Constrained Traveling
Salesman Problem, accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control, 2011. **
39. Chakravarthy, A., Song, K.-Y. and Feron, E., "Preventing automotive pile-up
crashes in mixed communication environments", IEEE Transactions on
Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2009. **
40. Le Ny, J., Feron, E. and Dahleh, M., Scheduling Kalman Filters in Continuous
Time, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, June 2011.**
41. Feron, E., From Control Systems to Control Software: Integrating Lyapunov-
theoretic proofs within code, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, pp 50-71,
december 2010.
42. Farhood, M. and Feron, E., Obstacle-sensitive trajectory regulation via
gain scheduling and semidefinite programming, IEEE Trans. on Control
Systems Technology, 2011.
43. Mao, Z.-H., Lupu, M. and Feron, E.; Influence of Aircraft Maneuver Preference
Variability on Airspace Usage, IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Systems, Vol 12,
Number 3, pp 1-16, July 2011.
44. Gariel, M, Feron, E, Srivastava A., A Trajectory Clustering and an Application
to Airspace Monitoring, IEEE Trans. Int. Transp. Systems, No. 99, pp 1-14, July
2011.
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45. Abdallah, A., Feron, E.M., Hellestrand, G., Koopman, P. and Wolf, M.
Hardware/Software Codesign of Aerospace and Automotive Systems,
in Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 98, Number 4, April 2010, pp. 584 602.
46. Salaun, E., Gariel, M., Vela, A. and Feron, E., "Aircraft Proximity Maps
Based on Data-Driven Flow Modeling, in AIAA J. Guidance, Control and
Dynamics, 2011.
47. Roozbehani, M., Megretski, A. and Feron, E., Optimization of Lyapunov
Invariants in Verification of Software Systems, accepted for publication
in IEEE Trans. Aut. Control, Nov. 2011.
48. Burgain, Pierrick; Pinon, Olivia; Feron, Eric; Clarke, John-Paul; Mavris, Dimitri
"Optimizing Pushback Decisions to Valuate Airport Surface Surveillance
Information", in IEEE Trans Intell. Transp. Systems, Volume: 13, Issue: 1,
2012.
49. Kim, Sang Hyun, Feron Eric, and Clarke, John-Paul; Airport Gate Assignment to
Minimize Passenger Transit Time in Terminals and Aircraft Taxi Time on
Ramps; accepted, AIAA J. Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 2012.
3. Proceedings of Refereed Conferences
1. Feron, E. and Olivier, C., "Multi-captor multi-target filtering using fractal theory and
Kalman filtering," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conf. on Dec. and Control, Hawaii,
Dec. 1990.
2. Olivier, C., Dessoude, O. and Feron, E., Stealth Filtering with Reduced-Order
Observations., in Proceedings of the IEEE Conf. On Dec. and Control, pp 3060
3067, Brighton, UK, Dec. 1991.
3. Balakrishnan, V., Feron, E., Boyd, S., and El Ghaoui, L., "Computing bounds for the
structured singular value via an interior point algorithm," in Proceedings of the
American Control Conference, vol. 3, pp. 2195-2196, Chicago, IL, June 1992.
4. Balakrishnan, V., Feron, E., Boyd, S., and El Ghaoui, L., "Solving interpolation
problems via generalized eigen value minimization," in Proceedings of the American
Control Conference, vol. 3, pp. 2647-2648, San Francisco, CA, June 1993.
5. Feron, E., Balakrishnan, V., and Boyd, S., "Design of stabilizing state feedback for
delay systems via convex optimization," in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control, vol. 1, pp. 147-148, Tucson, AZ, December 1992.
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6. Feron, E., Balakrishnan, V., Boyd, S., and El Ghaoui, L., "Numerical methods for H2
related problems, in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, vol. 4, pp.
2921-2922, Chicago, IL, June 1992.
7. El Ghaoui, L., Balakrishnan, V, Feron, E., and Boyd, S., "On maximizing a
robustness measure for structured nonlinear perturbations," in Proceedings of the
American Control Conference, vol. 4, pp. 2923-2924, Chicago, IL, June 1992.
8. Boyd, S., Balakrishnan, V., Feron, E., and El Ghaoui, L., "Control System Analysis
and Synthesis via Linear Matrix Inequalities," in Proceedings of the American
Control Conference, vol. 2, pp. 2147-2154, San Francisco, CA, June 1993.
9. Boyd, S., Feron, E., Balakrishnan, V., and El Ghaoui, L., "History of Linear Matrix
Inequalities in Control Theory," in Proceedings of the American Control Conference,
vol. 1, pp. 31-34, Baltimore, MD, June 1994.
10. Feron, E., "Observer-based stabilization of nonlinear systems," in Proceedings of the
American Control Conference, vol. 1, pp. 436-439, Baltimore, MD, June 1994.
11. Feron, E., "Analysis of robust H2 performance with multipliers," in Proceedings of
the Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 3, pp. 2015-2020, Orlando, FL,
December 1994.
12. Apkarian, P., Feron, E., and Gahinet, P., "A Parameter-Dependent Lyapunov
Approach to Robust control with Parametric Uncertainty," in Proceedings of the
European Control Conference, Rome, Italy, September 1995.
13. Feron, E., Apkarian, P., and Gahinet, P., "S-procedure for the Analysis of Control
Systems via Parameter-Dependent Lyapunov Functions," in Proceedings of the
European Control Conference, Rome, Italy, September 1995.
14. Feron, E., "Robustness of Linear Systems Against Parametric Uncertainties:
Towards Consistent Stability Indicators," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control, vol. 2, pp. 1425-30, New Orleans, LA, December 1995.
15. Miotto, P., Shewchun, M., Paduano, J., and Feron, E., "High Performance Bounded
Control and Application to the F18-HARV", in Proceedings of the AIAA Conference
on Guidance, Navigation and Control, San Diego, CA, August 1996. **2
16. Boussios, C. and Feron, E., "Estimating the conservatism of Popov's Criterion", in
Proceedings of the AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, San
Diego, CA, August 1996.
Outgrowth of supervised student research
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17. Duchesne, L., Brenner, M., Feron, E., and Paduano, J., "Subspace Identification with
Multiple Data Sets", in Proceedings of the AIAA Conference on Guidance,
Navigation and Control, San Diego, CA, August 1996. **
18. Pujet, N. and Feron, E., "Flight Plan Optimization in Flexible Air Traffic
Environments", in Proceedings of the AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation
and Control, San Diego, CA, August 1996. **
19. Shewchun, M. and Feron, E., "High Performance Bounded Control", in American
Control Conference, vol. 5, pp. 3250-3254, July 1997. **
20. McConley, M., Appleby, B., Dahleh, M., and Feron, E., Polytopic Control
Lyapunov Functions for Robust Stabilization of a Class of Nonlinear Systems, in
American Control Conference, July 1997. **
21. McConley, M., Appleby, B., Dahleh, M., and Feron, E., A Control Lyapunov
Function Approach to Robust Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems, in American
Control Conference, July 1997. **
22. Paganini, F. and Feron, E., Analysis of Robust H2 Performance: Comparisons and
Examples, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 2, pp. 1000-1005, San
Diego, CA, December 1997.
23. Yang, K. Y., Hall, S. R., and Feron, E., A New Design Method for Robust H2
Controllers using Popov Multipliers, in American Control Conference, vol. 2, pp.
1235-1240, July 1997. **
24. Miotto, P., Paduano, J., Feron, E., and Burken, J., Modern Fixed Structure Control
Design Part I: Gain Adjustment to Improve Handling Qualities, in Proceedings of
the AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, August 1997. **
25. Miotto, P., Paduano, J., Feron, E., and Burken, J., Modern Fixed Structure Control
Design Part II: Automated Gain Scheduling, in Proceedings of the AIAA
Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, August 1997. **
26. Shewchun, M. and Feron, E., High Performance Control of Systems Subject to Input
and Input Rate Constraints, in AIAA GNC Conference, August 1997. **
27. Shewchun, M., Oh, J.-H., and Feron, E., Linear matrix inequalities for analysis of
free flight conflict problems, in IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, vol. 3, pp.
2417-2422, San Diego, CA, December 1997. **
28. Oh, J.-H., Shewchun, M., and Feron, E., "Design and Analysis of Conflict Resolution
Algorithms via Positive Semidefinite Programming", IEEE Conf. on Decision and
Control, vol. 5, pp. 4179-4185, San Diego, CA, December 1997.
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29. Oh, J.H. and Feron, E., Primal-Dual Quadratic Programming Approach to Multiple
Conflict Resolution, in American Control Conference, vol. 5, pp. 2802-2806,
Philadelphia, PA, July 1998.
30. Oh, J. H. and Feron, E., Safety Certification of Air Traffic Conflict Resolution
Algorithms Involving More Than Two Aircraft, in American Control Conference,
vol. 5, pp. 2807-2811, Philadelphia, PA, July 1998.
31. Pujet, N., Feron, E., and Rakhit, A., Modeling of an Airline Operations Control
Center as a Queuing Network, in American Control Conference, vol. 3, pp. 1800-
1803, Philadelphia, PA, July 1998. **
32. Idris, H., et al., Identification of Flow Constraint and Control Points in Departure
Operations at Airport Systems, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control
Conference, August 1998. **
33. Pujet, N., Feron, E., and Rakhit, A., Modeling and Identification of an Airline
Operations Center as a Multi-Agent Queueing System, AIAA Guidance, Navigation
and Control Conference, August 1998. **
34. Budge, A., George, S., Covert, E. and Feron, E., Modeling of non axisymmetric
projectiles, AIAA 1998, Boston, MA.**3
35. Pujet, N. and Feron, E., Modeling an Airline Operations Control Center,
International Air Traffic Management R&D seminar ATM-98, Orlando, FL,
December 1998.
36. Jamoom, M. B., Feron, E., and McConley, M. W., Optimal Actuator Control
Grouping Schemes, IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, December 1998. **
37. Paganini, F. and Feron, E., Analysis of Robust H2 Performance: Comparisons and
Examples, IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, December 1998.
38. Sanders, C. P., Debitetto, P. A., Feron, E., Vuong, H.-F. and Leveson, N.,
Hierarchical Control of Small Autonomous Helicopters, IEEE Conf. on Decision
and Control, December 1998. **
39. McGovern, L. and Feron, E., Requirements and Hard Computational Bounds for
Real-Time Optimization in Safety-Critical Control Systems, IEEE Conf. on
Decision and Control, December 1998. **
**Outgrowth of supervised student research
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40. Idris, H., Delcaire, B., Hall, W., Anagnostakis, I., Hansman, R.J., Feron, E., and
Odoni, A.R., Observation of Departure Processes at Logan Airport to Support the
Development of Departure Planning Tools, 2nd USA/Europe Air Traffic
Management R&D seminar, Orlando, FL, December 1998. **
41. Pujet, N. and Feron, E., Input-output Modeling and Control of the Departure Process
of Busy Airports, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, Portland,
OR, August 1999.**
42. Frazzoli, E., Dahleh, M.A. and Feron, E. A hybrid control architecture for
aggressive maneuvering of autonomous helicopters, IEEE Conf. On Decision and
Control, December 1999.**
43. Piedmonte M. and Feron, E. Aggressive Maneuvering of Autonomous Aerial
Vehicles: A Human-Centered Approach, 9th Int. Symposium on Robotics Research.
October 9-12, 1999. Snowbird, Utah, USA.
44. Frazzoli, E., Dahleh, M.A. and Feron, E. Trajectory tracking control design for
autonomous helicopters using a backstepping algorithm, American Control
Conference, June 2000, Chicago, IL.**4
45. Andersson, K., Carr, F., Feron, E. and Hall, W. Analysis of Arrival and Departure
Ground Operations at Hub Airports, FAA-Eurocontrol Air Traffic Management
Research Seminar, June 2000, Naples, Italy.**
46. Anagnostakis, I., Idris, H., Clarke, J.-P., Feron, E., Hansman, R.J., Odoni, A. and
Hall, W. A Conceptual Design of a Departure Planner Decision Aid, FAA-
Eurocontrol Air Traffic Management Research Seminar, June 2000, Naples, Italy.
Best paper award, Airport, Ground Operations, Arrival and Departure Management
track.**
47. Mao, Z.-H., Feron, E. and Bilimoria, K. Stability and Performance of Intersecting
Aircraft Flows under Decentralized Conflict Avoidance Rules, AIAA Conference on
Guidance, Navigation and Control, Denver, CO, August 2000.**
48. Mao, Z.-H., Feron, E., Bilimoria, K. and Lee, H.-Q. Comparison of Centralized and
Decentralized Conflict Resolution Strategies for Multiple-Aircraft Problems, AIAA
Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, August 2000.**
49. Frazzoli, E., Dahleh, M.A. and Feron, E. Real-time Motion planning for agile
autonomous vehicles, AIAA Conf. on Guidance, Navigation and Control, Denver,
CO, August 2000.**
**Outgrowth of supervised student research
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50. E. Frazzoli, M. Dahleh and E. Feron, Robust Hybrid Control for Autonomous
Vehicle Motion Planning, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney,
Australia, December 2000.**
51. S. Gentry, S. Venkatesh and E. Feron, Inverse Constrained Optimal Control,
American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, June 2001**.
52. E. Frazzoli, M. Dahleh and E. Feron, Randomized guidance for Autonomous
Vehicle Motion Planning, to be presented at American Control Conference,
Arlington, VA, June 2001**.
53. Z. H. Mao and E. Feron New conditions for stability of intersecting aircraft flows
under sequential resolution rules, to be presented at American Control Conference,
Arlington, VA, June 2001**.
54. V. Gavrilets, B. Mettler and E. Feron Nonlinear Model for a Small-Size Acrobatic
Helicopter, to be presented at AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference,
Montreal, Canada, August 2001.
55. D. Dugail, Z.H. Mao and E. Feron Stability of Intersecting Aircraft Flows under
Centralized and Decentralized Conflict Avoidance Rules, AIAA Guidance,
Navigation and Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2001.
56. A. Smith, T. Schouwenaars, J. How and E. Feron Plume Avoidance Maneuver
Planning Using Mixed Integer Linear Programming, AIAA Guidance, Navigation
and Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2001.
57. L. Pallottino, A. Bicchi and E. Feron Mixed integer programming for aircraft
conflict resolution, to be presented at AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control
Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2001.
58. E. Frazzoli, M. Dahleh and E. Feron Experiments on using robust hybrid automaton
for real-time vehicle path planning, to be presented at AIAA Guidance, Navigation
and Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2001.
59. Sprague, K., Gavrilets, V. Dugail, D., Mettler, B. Feron, E., Martinos, I. Design and
application of an avionics systems for a miniature acrobatic helicopter. Space-
Aviation s next frontier; Proceedings of the 20th Digital Avionics Conference, Vol 1,
Daytona Beach, FL, Oct 14-18, 2001, Piscataway, NJ IEEE, 2001.
60. T. Schouwenaars, B. De Moor, E. Feron and J. How, Mixed Integer Programming
for Multi-Vehicle Path-Planning, European Control Conference, Porto, Portugal,
September 2001.
61. Dugail D. and E. Feron, Stability of Intersecting Aircraft Flows Using Heading
Change Maneuvers, Proceedings of 2002 American Control Conference, IEEE 2002.
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62. Carr and Feron, Modeling and Control of Airport Queuing Dynamics under Severe
Flow Restrictions, Proceedings of 2002 American Control Conference, IEEE 2002.
63. Dugail Feron and Bilimoria, Conflict-free Conformance to en route flow rate
constraints, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control conference and Exhibit,
Monterey, CA Aug 5-8, 2002. B. Mettler, V. Gavrilets and Eric Feron, Flight-Test
Evaluation of a Dynamic
64. Compensation for High-Bandwidth Control of a Small-Scale Helicopter, American
Helicopter Society, Test and Evaluation Technical Specialists Meeting, San
Francisco, CA, Jan. 2002.
65. Gavrilets, V., Martinos, I., Mettler, B. and Feron, E., Control Logic for Automated
Aerobatic Flight of a Miniature Helicopter, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and
Control Conference, Monterey, CA, August 2002.
66. Mettler, Valenti, Schouwenaars and Feron, Rotorcraft Motion Planning for Agile
Maneuvering Using a Maneuver Automaton, AHS 2002.
67. De Mot, Kulkarni V., Gentry, Gavrilets and Feron, Cooperative Path Planning of
UAV Clusters, AINS 2002 May, UCLA.
Development of and contribution to aerospace engineering at MIT
68.
Clark, L., MIT, Cambridge, MA; Feron, E.,
AIAA-2002-561
AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 40th, Reno, NV, Jan. 14-17,
2002
69. V. Gavrilets, I. Martinos, B. Mettler and E. Feron, Aggressive Maneuvering
Flight Tests of a Miniature Robotic Helicopter, 8th International Symposium on
Experimental Robotics (ISER), Sant'Angelo d'Ischia, Italy, July 2002.
70. DeMot, Gentry, Kulkarni and Feron: Stochastic path planning CDC2002.
71. V. Gavrilets, I. Martinos, B. Mettler and E. Feron Flight test and Simulation results
for an autonomous aerobatic helicopter, 2002 DASC
72. Schouwenaars, How, Feron, Safe Receding Horizon Path Planning for Autonomous
Vehicles,Allerton 2002.
73. Carr, F., Evans, A., Feron, E. and Clarke, J.-P. Software Tools to Support Research
on Airport Departure Planning, XXI DASC, Irvine, CA. Best paper in Session
Award.
74. Mitra, S., Wang, Y., Lynch, N. and Feron, E. Safety Verification of Model
Helicopter Controller using Hybrid Input/Output Automata, HSCC 2003.
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75. Lee Yang, Ji Hyun Yang, Eric Feron, Vishwesh Kulkarni Development of a
Performance-Based Approach for a Rear-End Collision Warning and Avoidance
System for Automobiles" 2003 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Columbus,
OH.**
76. Tom Schouwenaars, Bernard Mettler, Eric Feron, Jonathan P. How, Hybrid
Architecture for Full-Envelop Autonomous rotorcraft guidance, American
Helicopter Society 59th Annual Forum, May 6-8, 2003.
77. Tom Schouwenaars, Bernard Mettler, Eric Feron, Jonathan P. How, Guidance of
autonomous vehicles with uncertain dynamics American Control Conference,
2003.**
78. T. Schouwenaars, E. Feron, J. How: "Robust Motion Planning Using a Maneuver
Automaton with Built-in Uncertainties", 2003 American Control Conference, Denver,
CO
79. Jan De Mot and Eric Feron. Spatial Distribution of Two-Agent Clusters for Efficient
Navigation, 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii Dec. 2003**
80. B. Mettler, C. Dever, E Feron. Scaling Effects and Dynamic Characteristics of
Miniature Rotorcraft, 2003.**
81. T. Schouwenaars, B. Mettler, J. How, E. Feron. Robust Motion Planning Using a
Maneuver Automation with Built-in Uncertainies, ACC2003.**
82. T. Schouwenaars, B. Mettler, J. How, E. Feron. Hybrid Architecture for full-
envelope autonomous rotorcraft guidance. ACC 2003**
83. Mettler, B., Valenti,M., Schouwenaars, T, Kuwata, Y, How, J., Paunicka, J., Feron,
E. Autonomous UAV Guidance Build-up: Flight Test Demonstration and
Evaluation Plan, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control conference and Exhibit,
Austin TX Aug 11-14, 2003.
84. De Mot, J., and E. Feron, Spatial Distribution of Two-Agent Clusters for Efficient
Navigation, CDC 2003.
85. T. Schouwenaars, J. How, E. Feron: "Receding Horizon Path Planning with
Implicit Safety Guarantees", 2004 American Control Conference, Boston, MA
86. Chakravarthy, A., Song, K., E. Feron, A GPS Based slowdown warning system for
safe automobiles. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, June 14-17, 2004.
87. Dever, Mettler, Feron, 2004 AIAA GNC, 2004.
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88. Craparo, Berwick and Feron, 2004 AIAA GNC, 2004.
Natural Language Processing in the Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Emily Craparo Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
UNITED STATES; Eric Feron Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA, UNITED STATES
AIAA-2004-5354
AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit,
Providence, Rhode Island, Aug. 16-19, 2004
89. T. Schouwenaars, B. Mettler, J. How and E. Feron, HYBRID MODEL FOR
RECEDING HORIZON GUIDANCE OF AGILE AUTONOMOUS
ROTORCRAFT . 2004 IFAC Aerospace Systems Symposium, St Petersburg,
Russia.**
90. Eric Feron and Jim Paduano, A passive Sensor for Position and Attitude Estimation
Using an Interferometric Target, 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
December 14-17, 2004, Atlantis, Paradise Island, the Bahamas.
91. Roozbehani, Feron and Megretski: Modeling, Optimization and Computation for
Software Verification, Hybrid Systems, Computation and Control Conference,
Zurich, March 2005. To appear in LNCS, Springer Verlag, 2005.
92. Roozbehani, Feron and Megretski: Convex Optimization proves Software
Correctness, American Control Conference, May 2005.
93. DeMot, J. and Feron, E.: Optimal Agent Cooperation: How many is enough?,
Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, 2005.
94. Schouwenaars, T.; Valenti, M.; Feron, E.; How, J. Implementation and Flight Test
Results of MILP-based UAV Guidance 2005 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Page(s):
1 13. *
95. Le Ny, J. and Feron, E.: An approximation algorithm for the curvature-constrained
traveling salesman problem, Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and
Computing, 2005.
96. Joseph, F. A. and Feron, E.: Computing the Optimal Strategy for Various Ambush
Games, Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, 2005.*
97. M. Ishutkina, E. Feron and K. Bilimoria : Describing Air Traffic Complexity Using
Mathematical Programming AIAA-2005-7453, AIAA 5th ATIO and16th Lighter-
Than-Air Sys Tech. and Balloon Systems Conferences, Arlington, Virginia, Sep. 26-
28, 2005
98. Valenti, M., Bethke, B., Fiore, G., How, J. and Feron, E., Indoor Multi-Vehicle
Flight Testbed for fault isolation, detection and recovery . AIAA Guidance,
Navigation and Control, Keystone, Colo, Aug 2006. AIAA paper 2006-6200.*
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99. Bayraktar, S. and Feron, E. Aggressive landing maneuvers for 3-DOF Helicopter
UAV, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control, Keystone, Colo, Aug 2006. AIAA
paper 2006-6682.*
100. Tournier, G., Valenti, M., How, J., and Feron, E. Estimation and Control of a
quadrotor vehicle using monocular vision and moir patterns. AIAA Guidance,
Navigation and Control, Keystone, Colo, Aug 2006. AIAA paper 2006-6711.*
101. Lee, Keumjin, Feron, Eric and Pritchett, A.: Airspace Complexity, Allerton
Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, 2006.*
102. Feron, Eric and Roozbehani, M.: Certifying Control and Systems Software, AIAA
Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Savannah, GA, 2007.
103. F. Alegre, R. Valenzuela, E. Feron and S. Pande: Proving Correctness of Autocoded
control Software, Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit,
Savannah, GA, 2007.
104. K. Lee, E. Feron and A. Pritchett Air Traffic Complexity: An Input-Output
Approach 7th USA EUROPE ATM R&D Seminar, July 2007.
105. J. Le Ny, E. Frazzoli, E. Feron The curvature-constrained traveling salesman
problem for high point densities 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, 2007, page(s): 5985-5990, New Orleans, LA, USA.
106. Roozbehani, M., Megretski, A. and Feron, E. Optimal Fixed-Point Implementation
of Digital Filters, American Control Conference, 2007. 9-13 July 2007, page(s):
3565-3569 New York, NY, USA,
107. M Gariel, JP Clarke, E Feron A Dynamic I/O Model for TRACON Traffic
Management, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Savannah, GA,
2007.
108. Jerome Le Ny, Munther Dahleh and Eric Feron Multi-UAV Dynamic Routing with
Partial Observations using Restless Bandit Allocation Indices . 2007 46th IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control.
109. Le Ny, J., Dahleh, M., and Feron, E. Multi-Agent Task Assignment in the Bandit
Framework, 2006 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
110. Le Ny, J., Feron, E. Restless bandits with switching costs: linear programming
relaxations, performance bounds and limited look-ahead policies American Control
Conference, 2006.
111. Schouwenaars, T.; Feron, E.; How, J.; Multi-vehicle path planning for non-line of
sight communication American Control Conference, 2006 - 14-16 June 2006.
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112. Roozbehani, M.; Megretski, A.; Feron, E.; Safety Verification of Iterative
Algorithms over Polynomial Vector Fields 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, 2006, 13-15 Dec. 2006 Page(s):6061 6067
113. Hugo De Blauwe, Selcuk Bayraktar, Eric Feron, Fatih Lokumcu Flight Modeling
and Experimental Autonomous Hover Control of a Fixed Wing Mini-UAV at High
Angle of Attack, AIAA-2007-6818. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control
Conference and Exhibit, Hilton Head, South Carolina, Aug. 20-23, 2007.
114. Le Ny, J.; Dahleh, M.; Feron, E. "Multi-Agent Task Assignment in the Bandit
Framework,45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2006, Page(s): 5281
5286.
115. A. Chakravarthy, J. Peraire and E. Feron Effects of a slowdown warning system in
mixed communication environments : A macroscopic study, Proc. European Control
Conference, 2006.
116. Roozbehani, M.; Megretski, A.; Feron, E., Optimal Fixed-Point Implementation of
Digital Filters . American Control Conference, 2007. ACC '07, Page(s): 3565 3569
117. Fernando Alegre; Rene Valenzuela; Eric Feron; Santosh Pande Proving Correctness
of Autocoded Control Software AIAA-2007-6885 - AIAA Modeling and Simulation
Technologies Conference and Exhibit, Hilton Head, South Carolina, Aug. 20-23,
2007
118. Keumjin Lee; Feron, E.; Pritchett, A. Air Traffic Complexity: An Input-Output
Approach, American Control Conference, 2007. ACC '07, Page(s): 474 479.
119. Le Ny, J.; Feron, E. Performance evaluation of a multi-agent risk-sensitive tracking
system, 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007, Page(s): 2464
2469.
120. Le Ny, J.; Frazzoli, E.; Feron, E. The curvature-constrained traveling salesman
problem for high point densities 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
2007. Page(s): 5985 5990
121. Le Ny, J.; Dahleh, M.; Feron, E. "Multi-UAV dynamic routing with partial
observations using restless bandit allocation indices, 2008 American Control
Conference, Page(s): 4220 4225.
122. Le Ny, J., Dahleh, M.A., Feron, E., Frazzoli, E. Continuous Path Planning for a Data
Harvesting Mobile Server, 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
December 9-11, 2008, Cancun, Mexico.
123. Farhood, M.; Feron, E. A parameter-dependent Lyapunov approach for the control
of nonstationary and hybrid LPV systems American Control Conference, 2009. ACC
'09., Page(s): 3742 3747.
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124. Le Ny, J.; Feron, E.; Dahleh, M.A. Scheduling Kalman filters in continuous time
American Control Conference, 2009. Page(s): 3799 - 3805
125. Salaun, E.; Vela, A.E.; Feron, E.; Clarke, J.-P.; Solak, S. A simplified approach to
determine airspace complexity maps under automated conflict resolution
IEEE/AIAA 28th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2009. DASC '09. Page(s):
3.C.5-1 - 3.C.5-13
126. Vela, A.E.; Solak, S.; Feron, E.; Feigh, K.; Singhose, W.; Clarke, J.-P. A fuel
optimal and reduced controller workload optimization model for conflict resolution,
IEEE/AIAA 28th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2009.
Page(s): 3.C.3-1 - 3.C.3-16
127. Burgain, P.; Pinon, O.J.; Feron, E.; Clarke, J.-P.; Mavris, D.N.; On the value of
information within a collaborative decision making framework for airport departure
operations,IEEE/AIAA 28th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2009. DASC
'09.
128. Gariel, M.; Feron, E. 3D conflict avoidance under uncertainties, IEEE/AIAA 28th
Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2009. DASC '09. Page(s): 4.E.3-1 - 4.E.3-8
129. Vela, A.E.; Salaun, E.; Solak, S.; Feron, E.; Singhose, W.; Clarke, J.-P., A two-stage
stochastic optimization model for air traffic conflict resolution under wind
uncertainty, IEEE/AIAA 28th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2009. DASC
'09.
130. M. Farhood and E. Feron, "A Parameter-Dependent Lyapunov Approach for the
Control of Nonstationary and Hybrid LPV Systems", 2009 American Control
Conference, June 2009, St Louis, MO.
131. Vela, A.; Sala n, E.; Feron, E.; Clarke, J.-P.; Singhose, W. Maximizing throughput
at an intersection under constrained maneuvers 49th IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control (CDC), 2010. Page(s): 1207 1214
132. Lupu, M.; Feron, E.; Zhi-Hong Mao Traffic complexity of intersecting flows of
aircraft under variations of pilot preferences in maneuver choice, 49th IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2010, Page(s): 1189 1194
133. Vela, A.E.; Feron, E.; Singhose, W.; Clarke, J.-P.; Control of holding patterns for
increased throughput and recovery of operations 2010 IEEE/AIAA 29th Digital
Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Page(s): 1.C.2-1 - 1.C.2-12.
134. Vela, A.; Sala n, E.; Gariel, M.; Feron, E.; Clarke, J.; Singhose, W.
Determining bounds on controller workload rates at an intersection, American
Control Conference (ACC), 2010.
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135. Sang Hyun Kim; Eric Feron; John-Paul Clarke Airport Gate Assignment that
Minimizes Passenger Flow in Terminals and Aircraft Congestion on Ramps
AIAA-2010-7693. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference,
Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 2-5, 2010.
136. Mehrdad Pakmehr; Nathan Fitzgerald; George Kiwada; James; Eric Feron;
Alireza Behbahani Decentralized Adaptive Control of a Turbofan System
with Partial Communication, AIAA-2010-6835. 46th
AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit,
Nashville, TN, July 25-28, 2010
137. Hand, T.; Zhi-Hong Mao; Feron, E. Stability of spatially distributed, intersecting
aircraft flows under sequential conflict resolution schemes American Control
Conference (ACC), 2011, Page(s): 2168 2173.
138. Vela, A.; Clarke, J.-P.; Feron, E.; Singhose, W. The relative value of trajectory
prediction and conflict-resolution algorithms, IEEE/AIAA 30th Digital Avionics
Systems Conference (DASC), 2011, Page(s): 6D1-1 - 6D1-11.
139. Vela, A.; Salaun, E.; Feron, E.; Singhose, W.; Clarke, J.-P. Bounds on Controller
Taskload Ra
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