Publications

Selected Recent Publications by Topic

Control Theory for Systems with Constraints


Spacecraft Control Applications


Aircraft Control Applications


Automotive Control Applications


Selected publications and pre-prints, mostly from difficult to find conference proceedings, are placed below:


Constrained Spacecraft Relative Motion Control on Earth and Halo Orbits, and for Asteroid Landing:

[11] S. Semeraro, I. Kolmanovsky, E. Garone, "On Constrained Feedback Control of Spacecraft Orbital Transfer Maneuvers," in Proceedings of 33rd AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 15-19, Paper AAS 23-292, 2023.

[10] A. Thompson, A., and I. Kolmanovsky, "Forward Propagating Riccati Equation Control of Spacecraft on Earth-Moon L1 Halo Orbit Mission," in Proceedings of 2020 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, (Lake Tahoe, California/held virtually), Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, vol. 175, Paper AAS 20-640, American Astronautical Society (AAS), Univelt, August 2020.

[9] A. Berning Jr., D. Liao-McPherson, A. Girard, A., and I. Kolmanovsky, "Suboptimal Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Strategies for Tracking Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits," in Proceedings of 2020 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, (Lake Tahoe, California/held virtually), Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, vol. 175, Paper AAS 20-762, American Astronautical Society (AAS), Univelt, August 2020.

[8] C. Petersen, F. Leve, F., and I. Kolmanovsky,  "On Translational and Rotational Control of a Rigid Spacecraft in a Central Gravity Field with Only Attitude Control," Proceedings of 27th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, Advances in Astronautical Sciences, vol. 160, Paper AAS 17-342, Univelt, 2017.

[7]  R. Zidek and I. Kolmanovsky, "Geostationary Satellite Station Keeping Using Drift Counteraction Optimal Control," Proceedings of 26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Napa, CA, February 14-18, Advances in Astronautical Sciences, vol. 158, pp. 989-1000, Paper AAS 16-517, Univelt, 2016.

[6] D. Liao-McPherson, W. Dunham, and I. Kolmanovsky, "Model Predictive Control Strategies for Constrained Soft Landing on an Asteroid," Proceedings of AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Long Beach, California, AIAA Paper 2016-5507, doi: 10.2514/6.2016-5507, 2016.

[5] W. Dunham, C. Petersen,  and I. Kolmanovsky, "Constrained Control for Soft Landing on an Asteroid with Gravity Model Uncertainty," Proceedings of 2016 American Control Conference (ACC), Boston, MA, pp. 5842-5847, 2016.

[4] C. Petersen, and I. Kolmanovsky, "Coupled Translational and Rotational Dynamics for Precise Constrained Rendezvous and Docking with Periodic Reference Governors," Proceedings of 26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Napa, CA, February 14-18, 2016, Advances in Astronautical Sciences, vol. 158,  Paper AAS 16-507, American Astronautical Society (AAS), Univelt, 2016.

[3] C. Petersen, J. Pierre, C. Zagaris, M. Baldwin, and I. Kolmanovsky, "Hardware Implementation of Model Predictive Control for Relative Motion Maneuvering," Proceedings of 2015 American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, pp. 2311-2316, 2015.

[2] U. Kalabic, A. Wiess, I. Kolmanovsky, and S. Di Cairano, "Station-Keeping and Momentum-Management on Halo Orbits Around L2: Linear-Quadratic Feedback and Model Predictive Control Approaches," Proceedings of 25th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Williamsburg, VA, Advances in Astronautical Sciences, vol. 155, Paper AAS 15-307, American Astronautical Society (AAS), Univelt, 2015.

[1] C. Petersen, A. Jaunzemis, M. Baldwin, M. Holzinger, and I. Kolmanovsky,  "Model Predictive Control and Extended Command Governor for Improving Robustness of Relative Motion Guidance and Control," Proceedings of 24th AAS Space Flight Mechanics Conference, Santa FE, NM, Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Spaceflight Mechanics Volume 152, Paper AAS-14-249, American Astronautical Society (AAS), Univelt, 2014.

 

Constrained Spacecraft Attitude Control:

[5] A. Guiggiani, I. Kolmanovsky, P. Patrinos and A. Bemporad, "Constrained Model Predictive Control of Spacecraft Attitude with Reaction Wheels Desaturation," Proceedings of 2015 European Control Conference, Linz, Austria, 2015.

[4] A. Guiggiani, I. Kolmanovsky, P. Patrinos and A. Bemporad, "Fixed Point Constrained Model Predictive Control of Spacecraft Attitude," Proceedings of 2015 American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, 2015.

[3] A. Weiss, F. Leve, I. Kolmanovsky and M. Jah, "Reaction Wheel Parameter Identification and Control through Receding Horizon-based Null Motion Excitation ," in Advances in Estimation, Navigation and Spacecraft Control, edited by D. Choukroun, Y. Oshman, J. Thienel, and M. Idan, Book 152, Springer, 2015.

[2] U. Kalabic, R. Gupta, S. Di Cairano, A. Bloch, and I. Kolmanovsky, "Constrained Spacecraft Attitude Control on SO(3) Using Reference Governors and Model Predictive Control," Proceedings of 2014 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, pp. 5586-5593, 2014.

[1] A. Weiss, F. Leve, M. Baldwin, J. Forbes, and I. Kolmanovsky, "Spacecraft Constrained Attitude Control using Positively Invariant Sets on SO(3) x R^3," Proceedings of 2014 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, pp. 4955-4960, 2014.


Under-Actuated Spacecraft Attitude Control:

[3] C. Petersen, F. Leve, and I. Kolmanovsky, "Geometric Switching Scheme For Attitude Control of An Underactuated Spacecraft with Two Control Moment Gyros," Proceedings of 27th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Conference, San Antonio, Texas, Advances in Astronautical Sciences, vol. 160, Paper AAS 17-340, Univelt, 2017. 

[2] M. Flynn, F. Leve, C. Petersen, and I.V. Kolmanovsky, "Linear Control of Under-Actuated Spacecraft with Two Reaction Wheels Made Feasible by Solar Radiation Pressure," Proceedings of 2015 American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, 2015.

[1] C. Petersen, F. Leve, and I.V. Kolmanovsky, "Hybrid Switching Attitude Control of Under-Actuated Spacecraft Subject to Solar Radiation Pressure," Proceedings of 25th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Williamsburg, VA, Advances in Astronautical Sciences, vol. 155, Paper AAS 15-327, Univelt, 2015.


Modeling and Control of Flexible and Very Flexible Aircraft: 

[8] Pereira, M., Chaves, G., Bertolin, R., Kolmanovsky, I., and Cesnik, C., "Experimental validation of model predictive controllers for load alleviation in very flexible aircraft," Proceedings of International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (IFASD 2022), 13-17 June 2022, Madrid, Spain, pp. 1-21, Paper IFASD-2022-049, 2022. 


[7] Monteiro, B., Cesnik, C., Kolmanovsky, I., and Vetrano, F., "Gust load alleviation control related metric for multidisciplinary design optimization," Proceedings of International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics(IFASD 2022), 13-17 June 2022, Madrid, Spain, pp. 1-14, Paper IFASD-2022-036, 2022. 


[6]  Pereira, M., Duan, M., Cesnik, C., and Vetrano, F., "Model Predictive Control for Very Flexible Aircraft based on linear parameter varying reduced-order models," Proceedings of International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (IFASD 2022), 13-17 June 2022, Madrid, Spain, pp. 1-18, Paper IFASD-2022-063, 2022.

[5] Pereira, Mateus de F.V., Kolmanovsky, I., Cesnik, C., and Vetrano, F., "Model Predictive Control for Maneuver Load Alleviation in Flexible Airliners," Proceedings of International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (IFASD 2019), 9-13 June 2019, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 9-13 July 2019, pp. 1-19.

[4] Duan, M., Hansen, J.B., Kolmanovsky, I.V., and Cesnik, C., "Maneuver Load Alleviation of Flexible Aircraft through Control Allocation: A Case Study using X-Hale," Proceedings of International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (IFASD 2019), 9-13 June 2019, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 9-13 July 2019, pp. 1-16.

[3] Gonzales, P., Pereira, Mateus de F.V., Silvestre, F., Kolmanovsky, I.V., and Cesnik, C., "Very Flexible Aircraft Control Based on Loop-Separation and Reference Governor," Proceedings of International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (IFASD 2019), 9-13 June 2019, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 9-13 July 2019, pp. 1-13.

[2] Lancheros, M., Kolmanovsky, I.V., Cesnik, C., and Vetrano, F., "Model Order Reduction for Coupled Nonlinear Aeroelastic-Flight Mechanics of Very Flexible Aircraft," Proceedings of International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (IFASD 2019), 9-13 June 2019, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 9-13 July 2019, pp. 1-21.

[1] Pereira, Mateus de F.V., Kolmanovsky, I.V., Cesnik, C., and Vetrano, F., "Model Predictive Control Architectures for Maneuver Load Alleviation in Very Flexible Aircraft," Proceedings of AIAA SciTech Forum, 7-11 January 2019, San Diego, California, doi: 10.2514/6.2019-1591, pp. 1-24.


Aircraft Loss of Control Mitigation:

[3] T. Poloni, U. Kalabic, K. McDonough and I.V. Kolmanovsky, "Disturbance Canceling Control based on Simple Input Observers with Constraint Enforcement for Aerospace Applications," Proceedings of 2014 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Antibes/Nice, France.

[2] M.J. Yu, K. McDonough, D.S. Bernstein, and I.V. Kolmanovsky, "Retrospective Cost Model Refinement for Aircraft Fault Signature Detection," Proceedings of 2014 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, pp. 2486-2491, 2014.

[1] K. McDonough, I.V. Kolmanovsky, and E. Atkins, "Recoverable Sets of Initial Conditions and Their Use for Aircraft Fight Planning After a Loss of Control Event,'' Proceedings of 2014 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2014.


Control of Systems with Constraints:

[5] K. McDonough and I.V. Kolmanovsky, "Controller State and Reference Governors for Discrete-time Linear Systems with Pointwise-in-time State and Control Constraints ," Proceedings of 2015 American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, 2015.

[4] U. Kalabic and I.V. Kolmanovsky, "Reference and Command Governors for Systems with Slowly Time-varying References and Time-Dependent Constraints", Proceedings of 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, California, 2014

[3] U. Kalabic, I.V. Kolmanovsky, E.G. Gilbert, "Reduced Order Extended Command Governor," Automatica, Vol. 50, No.5, pp. 1466-1472, May, 2014.

[2] I.V. Kolmanovsky, E. Garone, and S. Di Cairano, "Reference and Command Governors: A Tutorial on Their Theory and Automotive Applications," Proceedings of 2014 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, pp. 226-241, 2014.

[1] H. Park, I.V. Kolmanovsky, and J. Sun, "Parametric Integrated Perturbation Analysis - Sequential Quadratic Programming Approach for Minimum-time Model Predictive Control,"  Proceedings of 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014.


Control of Engines, Powertrains and Propulsion Systems:

[10] A. Menezes and I.V. Kolmanovsky, "Energy and Power Management in a Series Hybrid Electric Vehicle Using Selective Evolutionary Generation", Proceedings of 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, California, 2014.

[9] I.V. Kolmanovsky and W. Merill, "Limit Protection in Gas Turbine Engines Based on Reference and Extended Command Governors," Proceedings of AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum and Exposition, Cleveland, Ohio, 2014.

[8] K. Zaseck, M. Brusstar, and I.V. Kolmanovsky, "Constraint Enforcement of Piston Motion in a Free Piston Engine," Proceedings of 2014 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, pp. 1487-1492, 2014.

[7] M. Huang and I.V. Kolmanovsky, "Robust Rate Based Model Predictive Control of Diesel Engine Air Path," Proceedings of 2014 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, pp. 1505-1510, 2014.

[6] D. Filev, Y. Wang, and I.V Kolmanovsky, "Learning Based Approaches to Engine Mapping and Calibration Optimization," In Optimization and Optimal Control in Automotive Systems, edited by Waschl, Kolmanovsky, Steinbuch and del Re, LNCIS, vol. 455, pp. 257-272, 2014. 

[5] D. Hrovat, M. Jankovic, I. Kolmanovsky, S. Magner, and D. Yanakiev,  "Powertrain Control," in the IEEE Control Handbook, 2nd Edition, edited by W. S. Levine, CRC Press, 2011. 

[4] D. Reed, I. Kolmanovsky, and D. Hrovat, "Robust Control Methods Applied to an Automated Clutch Transmission," Proceedings of 10th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control (AVEC 10), Loughborough, UK, pp. 663-668, August, 2010.

[3] I. Kolmanovsky, and D. Yanakiev, “Speed Gradient Control of Nonlinear Systems and its Applications to Automotive Engine Control,”  Journal of Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineers (SICE),  vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 160-169, 2008 (2008-03-10). 

[2] I. Kolmanovsky, M. van Nieuwstadt, and P. Moraal, "Optimal Control of Variable Geometry Turbocharged Diesel Engines with Exhaust Gas Recirculation," DSC-Vol. 67, Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, pp. 265-273, 1999.

[1] I. Kolmanovsky and I. Sivergina, “Feasibility assessment and operating policy optimization of automotive powertrains with uncertainties using game theory,Proceedings of ASME IMECE 2001, New York, November, 2001, paper IMECE 2001/DSC-24530.  


 

Fuel Efficient Vehicle Speed (Cruise) Control:

[4] K. McDonough, A. D'Amato, J. Mullen, C. Petersen, I.V. Kolmanovsky, D. Filev, "Transition Threshold Optimization for a Rule Based Automotive Cruise Control", Proceedings of 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, California, pp. 4101-4106, 2014.

[3] K. McDonough, I.V. Kolmanovsky, D. Filev, S. Szwabowski, D. Yanakiev and J. Michelini, "Stochastic Fuel Efficient Optimal Control of Vehicle Speed," in Optimization and Optimal Control in Automotive Systems, edited by Waschl, Kolmanovsky, Steinbuch and del Re, LNCIS, vol. 455, pp. 147-162, Springer, 2014.

[2] I.V. Kolmanovsky and D. Filev, "Terrain and Traffic Optimized Vehicle Speed Control", Proceedings of 6th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Automotive Control (AAC), Munich, Germany, pp. 378-383, 12-14 July 2010.

[1] I.V. Kolmanovsky, and J. Michelini, "Discrete-Time Drift Counteracting Stochastic Optimal Control and Intelligent Vehicle Applications," Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Control Systems - IVCS 2008 at Fifth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2008), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, pp. 7-16, INSTICC Press, May 2008.


Control of Connected and Autonomous/Automated Vehicles:

[6] Li, N., Oyler, D., Zhang, M., Yildiz, Y., Girard, A., and Kolmanovsky, I.V., "Hierarchical reasoning game theory based approach for evaluation and testing of autonomous vehicle control systems", Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, 2016.

[5] Z. Li, I.V. Kolmanovsky, E. Atkins, J. Lu, D. Filev, "Road anomaly estimation: Model based pothole detection," Proceedings of 2015 American Control conference, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 1315-1320, 2015.

[4] Z. Li, I.V. Kolmanovsky, E. Atkins, J. Lu, D. Filev, J. Michelini, "Road Risk Modeling and Cloud-Aided Safety-Based Route Planning," IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 46, no. 11, pp. 2473-2483, November 2016. 

[3] H. Park, R. Gupta, I.V. Kolmanovsky, E. Dai, J. McCallum, G. Pietron, "Quantifying performance of a connected vehicle by optimal control," Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on Engine and Powertrain Control, Simulation and Modeling, Columbus, Ohio, 2015.

[2] Z. Li, I.V. Kolmanovsky, E. Atkins, J. Lu, D. Filev, J. Michelini, "Cloud-aided semiactive suspension control ," Proceedings of 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence (SSCO), Orlando Florida, Paper SS-14405, 2014.

[1] Z. Li, I.V. Kolmanovsky, E. Atkins, J. Lu, D. Filev, J. Michelini, "Cloud-aided safety based route planning ," Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 5-8, 2014, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 2495-2500.