John W. C. Robinson

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PhD, Deputy Research Director (Ret.)

Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Department of Aeronautics

My resume can be found here and my Google Scholar profile is here 

Research interests

Control (nonlinear systems, aerospace applications), signal processing (array, statistical and sonar) and information theory (detection, filtering, estimation and classification, applications to physics).

Publications ('97-'15)

Control and Optimization

John W.C. Robinson and Peter Strömbäck, "Velocity To Be Gained Guidance for a Generic 2D Course Correcting Fuze," Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference '15, Kissimee, FL, Jan. 5-9, 2015, AIAA paper 2015-0087. pdf 

John W.C. Robinson and Petter Ögren, "On the Use of Gradual Dense-Sparse Discretizations in Receding Horizon Control," Optimal Control Applications and Methods, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 253-270, May/June 2014, doi:10.1002/oca.2065.

John W.C. Robinson and Peter Strömbäck, "Perturbation Based Guidance for a Generic 2D Course Correcting Fuze," Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference '13, Boston, MA, Aug. 19-22, 2013, AIAA paper 2013-5114. pdf 

Johan Knöös, John W.C. Robinson and Fredrik Berefelt, "Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion and Block Backstepping: A Comparison," Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference '12, Minneapolis, MN, Aug. 13-16, 2012, AIAA paper 2012-4888. pdf 

Petter Ögren and John W.C. Robinson, "A Model Based Approach to Modular Multi-Objective Robot Control," J. Intell. Robot Syst., Vol. 63, No. 2, 2011, pp. 257-282. pdf 

Petter Ögren and John W.C. Robinson, "Receding Horizon Control of UAVs Using Gradual Dense-Sparse Discretizations," Proc, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference '10, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 2-5, 2010, AIAA paper 2010-8084. pdf 

Johan Thunberg and John W.C. Robinson, "Block Backstepping, NDI and Related Cascade Designs for Efficient Development of Nonlinear Flight Control Laws," Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference '08, Honolulu, HI, Aug. 18-21, 2008, AIAA paper 2008-6960. pdf 

John W.C. Robinson, “Block Backstepping For Nonlinear Flight Control Law Design.” Chapter 11 in Nonlinear Analysis and Synthesis Techniques for Aircraft Control, D.G. Bates and M. Hagström, Eds., Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences Series, Vol. 365, Springer, 2007, pp 231-257. pdf 

David A. Anisi, Petter Ögren and John W.C. Robinson, “Safe Receding Horizon Control of an Aerial Vehicle,” Proc. 45:th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control ’06, San Diego, CA, Dec. 13–15, 2006. pdf 

David A. Anisi, John W.C. Robinson and Petter Ögren, “On-line Trajectory Planning for Aerial Vehicles: A Safe Approach with Guaranteed Task Completion,” Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference ’06, Keystone, CO, Aug. 21–24, 2006, AIAA paper 2006-6107. pdf 

John W.C. Robinson and Ulrik Nilsson, “Design of a Nonlinear Autopilot for Velocity and Attitude Control Using Block Backstepping,” Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference ’05, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 15–18, 2005, AIAA paper 2005-6266. pdf 

Statistical Signal and Array Processing

Cederholm, M. Jönsson, J. Robinson and I. Karasalo, “Robust Autopositioning for an AUV Mounted SAS - A Comparative Study,” Proc. Underwater Acoustic Measurements Conference ’05, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 28–July 1, 2005. pdf 

R.K. Lennartsson, S. McLaughlin, M.J. Levonen, J.W.C. Robinson and L. Persson, “Energy separation algorithms applied to sonar data,” Proc. MTS/IEEE/TECHNO-OCEAN’04 OCEANS 2004, Kobe, Japan, Nov. 9–12, 2004. pdf 

S. McLaughlin, M.J. Levonen, R.K. Lennartsson, J.W.C. Robinson, L.K.G. Persson, “Comparison of Quadratic Phase Coupling Detectors on Sonar Data,” Proc. MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2003, San Diego, CA, Sept. 22–26, 2003. pdf 

L. Persson, R.K. Lennartsson, J.W.C. Robinson and S. McLaughlin, “Quadratic Phase Coupling Analsysis of Passive Sonar Data Using Biphase Techniques,” Proc. MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2000, Providence, RI, Sept. 11–14, 2000, pp. 1053-1058. pdf 

R.K. Lennartsson, J.W.C. Robinson, L. Persson, M.J. Hinich and S. McLaughlin, “Passive Sonar Signature Estimation Using Bispectral Techniques,” Proc. 10:th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, SSAP 2000, Pocono, PA, Aug. 14–19, 2000, pp. 281–285. pdf 

John W.C. Robinson, “Multiple-Invariance Spatio-Temporal Spectral Estimation,” Proc. 24:th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP ’99, Phoenix, AZ, USA, March 15–19, 1999, Vol. 5, pp. 2821–2824. pdf 

L. Persson, J.W.C. Robinson and M. Hinich, “Multipath Characterization of Hydroacoustic Signals by Autocoherence Estimation,” Proc. IEEE OCEANS ’98, Nice, France, 28 Sept–1 Oct, 1998, vol 2, pp. 1083–1087. pdf 

John W.C. Robinson, “Spatial Weighting in Signal Subspace Direction-of-Arrival Estimation,” Proc. 13:th Int. Conf. Digital Signal Processing, DSP ’97, Santorini, Greece, 1997, vol 2, pp. 1039–1042. pdf 

Neuroscience

M.F. Karlsson and J.W.C. Robinson, “On Optimality in Auditory Information Processing,” Neural Comp., 14 (9), pp. 2181–2200, Sept. 2002. pdf 

Physics and Information Theory

A.R. Bulsara, C. Seberino, L. Gammaitoni, M.F. Karlsson, B. Lundqvist and J.W.C. Robinson, “Signal Detection Via Residence-Time Asymmetry in Noisy Bistable Devices,” Phys. Rev. E., 67 (1), article No. 016120, (2003). pdf 

M.F. Karlsson, J.W.C. Robinson, A.R. Bulsara and L. Gammaitoni, “The Optimal Achievable Accuracy of the Advanced Dynamical Fluxgate Magnetometer (ADFM),” 3:rd International Conference on Marine Electronics, MARELEC 2001, Stockholm, Sweden, July 11–13, 2001. pdf 

A.R. Bulsara, M. F. Karlsson, J.W.C. Robinson and L. Gammaitoni, “Exploiting Nonlinear Dynamics in a Fluxgate Magnetometer,” 3:rd International Conference on Marine Electronics, MARELEC 2001, Stockholm, Sweden, July 11–13, 2001. pdf 

J.W.C. Robinson, J. Rung, A.R. Bulsara and M.E. Inchiosa, “General Measures for Signal-Noise Separation in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems,” Phys. Rev. E., 63 (1), article No. 011107, (2000). pdf 

M. E. Inchiosa, J.W.C. Robinson and A.R. Bulsara, “Information Theoretic Stochastic Resonance in Noise-Floor Limited Systems: The Case for Adding Noise,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 85 (16), pp. 3369–3372, Oct. 2000. pdf 

J. Rung and J.W.C. Robinson, “A Statistical Framework for the Description of Stochastic Resonance Phenomena,” in D.S. Broomhead, E.A. Luchinskaya, P.V.E. McClintock and T. Mullin, eds., STOCHAOS: Stochastic and Chaotic Dynamics in the Lakes, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2000, pp. 409–414. pdf 

K.O.F. Stranne, D.E. Asraf, J.W.C. Robinson, P. Lindqvist and P. Sigray, “Information-Theoretic Characterization of System Performance for a Nonlinear Magneto-Resistive Sensor,” in D.S. Broomhead, E.A. Luchinskaya, P.V.E. McClintock and T. Mullin, eds., STOCHAOS: Stochastic and Chaotic Dynamics in the Lakes, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2000, pp. 603–610. pdf 

J.W.C. Robinson, D.E. Asraf, A.R. Bulsara and M.E. Inchiosa, “Information-Theoretic Distance Measures and a Generalization of Stochastic Resonance,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 81 (14), pp. 2850-2853, Oct. 1998. pdf 

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