Members
Professor
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
Lab Director of the Flight Dynamics and Control/Hybrid Systems Laboratory
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Students
Research Interests:
Guidance, Navigation, and Control
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Research Interests:
Multi-agent system and its application
Data-driven reachability analysis
Human-in-the-loop systems
Research Interests:
Dynamic system, Control theory
Optimal control with the data-driven approach
Human-based automation
Research Interests:
Data-driven Autonomy & Control
Fault-Tolerant Control
Air Traffic Management
Research Interests:
Vehicle Dynamics,
Nonlinear Control
SITL Simulation
Path Finding/Generation
Research Interests:
Cyber-secure Control and Estimation
Unmanned Aerial Systems
Flight Control and Guidance
M.S. Students
Undergraduate Students
Visiting Student
Alumni - Post-Doc
Fall 2016, Visiting Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Ford Motor Company, MI, USA
Alumni - Ph.D. Students
Fall 2005 - Spring 2009
Thesis: "Stochastic Linear Hybrid Systems: Modeling, Estimation and Application"
DSO National Laboratories, Singapore
Fall 2005 - Fall 2009
Thesis: "Numerical Methods for Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems and Applications to the National Airspace System"
NASA Ames/SGT Inc., CA, USA
Spring 2007 - Fall 2012
Thesis: "Guidance of Low-Thrust Spacecraft"
The Aerospace Corporation, CA, USA
Fall 2008 - Fall 2012
Thesis: "State Estimation and Optimal Control of Stochastic Hybrid Systems: Theory and Applications"
Facebook, CA, USA
Fall 2009 - Spring 2014
Thesis: "Dynamic Airspace Configuration Algorithms for Next Generation Air Transportation System "
MathWorks, MA, USA
Fall 2011 - Summer 2016
Thesis: "Information Inference for Cyber-Physical Systems with Application to Aviation Safety and Space Situational Awareness"
Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, Purdue University, February 2015
Fall 2016, Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University, IN, USA
Ford Motor Company, MI, USA
Fall 2013 - Spring 2017
Thesis: "Flight State Information Inference with Application to Helicopter Cockpit Video Data Analysis Using Data Mining Techniques"
Caterpillar, IL, USA
Fall 2013 - Spring 2017
Thesis: "High Assurance Control of Cyber-Physical Systems with Application to Unmanned Aircraft Systems"
Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, Purdue University, May 2016
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018, Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University, IN, USA
Jayaprakash Suraj Nandiganahalli
Research Interests:
Adaptive robust control and estimation
Time delay systems
Human-machine interaction
Applications: flight control, motion control of linear motor drives, target tracking, flight deck safety
Donnan PhD Dissertation Fellowship, Purdue University, 2017-2018
Research Interests:
Hybrid Systems Modeling and Estimation
Air Traffic Management
Clustering Analysis
Path Planning of Autonomous Systems
Multi-sensor Data Fusion/Fault Detection and Isolation
Amelia Earhart Fellowship, Spring 2017
Research Interests:
Multi-agent consensus estimation and control
Machine learning and air-traffic management
Research Interests:
Hybrid Optimal Control and Estimation
Machine Learning
Air Traffic Management
Research Interests:
Adaptive Robust Control and Estimation
Machine Learning
Nonlinear Optimal Control
Research Interests:
Data-Driven Reachability
Safety and Security of Cyber-Physical Systems
Research Interests:
Estimation theory
Decentralized sensor networks
Geometric methods and Lie groups
Alumni - M.S. Students, Thesis
Javier Lovera Yepes
Fall 2004 - Fall 2005
Thesis: "Pilot's Intent Inference and Aircraft Trajectory Prediction with Applications to Air Traffic Control"
Jeeyeon Hahn
Spring 2006 - Spring 2008
Thesis: "A Rule-based Conflict Resolution Alogorithm for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen)"
Pankit Kotecha
Fall 2007 - Spring 2009
Thesis: "Tube Network and Dynamic Sectorization of Airspace for Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen)"
Rockwell Collins, IW, USA
Fall 2007 - Summer 2009
Thesis: "The Detection and Localization of Traffic Congrestion for Highway Traffic Systems using Hybrid Estimation Techniques"
NASA Godard Space Center
Fall 2007 - Fall 2010
Thesis: "Vision Enhanced Navigation for Unmanned Systems"
US Air Force
Spring 2009 - Fall 2010
Thesis: "A Graph Based Algorithm for Adaptable Dynamic Airspace Configuration for NextGen"
MathWorks, MA, USA
Fall 2009 - Spring 2011
Thesis: "Graph Based Algorithms for Swarm Intelligence with Applications to MAVs"
Boeing, AL, USA
Fall 2009 - Spring 2011
Thesis: "Aircraft Taxiway Conformance monitoring with Constrained Stochastic Linear Hybrid Systems"
Spring 2007 - Spring 2011
Thesis: "An Adaptable, Low Cost Test-Bed for Unmanned Vehicle Systems Research"
Spring 2009 - Spring 2011
Thesis: "ADS-B and Multilateration Sensor Fusion Algorithm for Air Traffic Control"
Honeywell, MI, USA
Fall 2010 - Fall 2012
Thesis: "Throughput Analysis for the National Aerospace System"
Roush Fenway Racing, NC, USA
Fall 2011 - Spring 2013
Thesis: "Analysis of Cyberattacks on Unmanned Aerial Systems"
Northrop Grumman, AZ, USA
Fall 2011 - Spring 2013
Thesis: "Detailed the design and validation of a sector design algorithm for real and simulated air routes and traffic"
Fall 2011 - Summer 2013
Thesis: "Cyber Attack Analysis on Cyber-Physical Systems: Detectability, Severity, and Attenuation Strategy"
Fall 2011 - Summer 2013
Thesis: "Diagnostic Throughput Factor Ananlysis for En-route Airspace and Optimal Aircraft Trajectory Generation Based on Capacity Prediction and Controller Workload"
Caterpillar
Mark Kane
Spring 2012 - Fall 2014 (Distance Learning)
Thesis: "Joint Architecture for Reusable Vehicle-Integrated Software (J.A.R.V.I.S.)"
NASA-JSC, TX, USA
Fall 2012 - Spring 2015
Thesis: "Real-time RSSI-based Indoor Navigation for Autonomous UAV Flight"
PhD student at Purdue
Fall 2013 - Spring 2015
Thesis: "Linear Matrix Inequality-Based Nonlinear Adaptive Robust Control with Application to Unmanned Aircraft Systems"
Rockwell Collins, IW, USA
Spring 2014 - Spring 2016
Thesis: "Unsupervised Learning Framework for Large-Scale Flight Data Analysis of Cockpit Human Machine Interaction Issues"
Fall 2014 - Spring 2016
Thesis: "Flight Deck Human-Automation Mode Confusion Detection Using a Generalized Fuzzy Hidden Markov Model"
Arthur Lace
Spring 2015 - Spring 2016
Thesis: "Dynamic Sensor Tracking and IMM-EKF Estimation for Tracking Impulsive Maneuvering Satellites""
ATK
Fall 2015 - Spring 2017
Thesis: "Development of Optimal Kalman Consensus Filter and its Application to Distributed Hybrid State Estimation"
PhD student at Purdue
Fall 2015 - Fall 2017
Thesis: "Kalman Filtering for Discrete-time LTI Systems with State Dependent Packet Losses"
PhD student at Purdue
Research Interests:
Spacecraft Formation Flying
Spacecraft Attitude Control
Reconfigurable Space Structures
Research Interests:
Autonomous Path Planning
Guidance, Navigation and Control of Autonomous Vehicles
Machine Learning
Alumni - M.S. Student, Non-Thesis
Avinash Agawal
Fall 2004 - Spring 2006
Annie Cheng
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
Research: Metroplex Super Density Operations
Yury Pensky
Spring 2008 - Summer 2008
Research: Satellite Tracking
Fall 2010 - Spring 2012
Research: Air Traffic Control, Multiple Vehicle Control
Boeing, WA, USA
Yu Zheng
Spring 2010 - Spring 2013
Fall 2012 - Spring 2014
Research: Guidance and Navigation of UAV Systems, Cybersecurity Analysis of UAV Systems
Rockwell Collins, IW, USA
Research Interests:
State estimation for autonomous flight
Hybrid Systems Modeling
Reinforcement Learning
Former Visiting Scholars
Sanghyo Lee
Ph.D. student, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea
December 2005 - February 2006
Research: Flight path control of a UAV system
Yeonju Eun
Ph.D. student, Department of Aerospace Engineering, School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Systems Engineering, KAIST, Korea
September 2007 - October 2008
Research: Arrival flight sequencing and scheduling
Prof. Ruoming An
Associate Professor, School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
September 2009 - September 2010
Research: Control and optimization, fault diagnosis, estimation and system identification
Ph.D. student, Department of Mechatronic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China.
September 2008 - October 2010
Research: Dynamic Airspace configuration
Ph.D. student, Department of Astronautics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
September 2010 - September 2011
Research: Orbital Dynamics, Orbit and Attitude Determination
Ph.D. student, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea.
September 2011 - February 2012
Research: UAV Guidance and Control
Ph.D Student, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, China.
August 2012 - October 2013
Research: Air traffic control, Conflict resolution
Prof. Do-Hyun Kim
Professor, Hanseo University, Korea
February 2013 - February 2014
Prof. Daewoo Lee
Professor, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea
September 2012 - August 2013
Ph.D. Student, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The University of Tokyo, Japan
August 2012 - October 2013
Research: Air traffic control, Conflict resolution
Professor, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
May 2014 - May 2015
Research: Precision Navigation and Uncertainty Analysis
Prof. Minsuk Jie
Professor, Hanseo University, Korea
February 2015 - February 2016
Research: Robust Control and Applications
Chul Woo Kang, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea
October 2015 - October 2016
Research: Fault detection and isolation, Nonlinear estimation, Integrated navigation system
Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
July 2016 - July 2017
Research:
Information-theoretic decision making for cyber-physical systems
Navigation and planning of autonomous robots
Estimation and control for networked dynamic systems
Mixed-integer optimization algorithms
Uncertainty quantification of large-scale systems
Air and space vehicle guidance and control
Environmental sensing systems
Associate Professor, Korea Aerospace University, Korea
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Research:
Air transportation system modeling, estimation, and control
UAS Traffic Management
Yue Miao
Ph.D. student, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Research:
Adaptive control for nonlinear system
Satellite attitude control
Autonomous task planning of satellites
Gwanyoung Moon, Ph.D.
Principal Researcher, Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon, Korea
Dec 2018 – Dec 2019
Research:
Nonlinear control, Adaptive control, Guidance, Flight dynamics, Signal filtering, Estimation
Applications: Missile, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Launch vehicle