Multi-agent Coordination

E. Shaw, Hoam Chung, S. Sastry, and Karl Hedrick, "Unmanned Helicopter Formation Flight Experiment for the Study of Mesh Stability," to appear in Cooperative Systems: Control and Optimization,  D. Grundel, R. Murphey, P. Pardalos and O. Prokopyev (Editors), Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Vol. 588, Springer, 2007

D.H. Shim, Hoam Chung and S. Sastry, "Conflict-free navigation in unknown urban environments," IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Magazine, Volume 13,  Issue 3,  Sept. 2006, Page(s):27 - 33

Hoam Chung and S. Sastry, "Autonomous Helicopter Formation using Model Predictive Control", AIAA GN&C Conference, Keystone, Colorado, 2006. 

J. Mikael Eklund, Jonathan Sprinkle, S. Shankar Sastry, "Template Based Planning and Distributed Control for Networks of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles", 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference ECC 2005 (CDC-ECC'05), Seville, Spain, Dec., 12--15, 2005.

D. Shim, H. Chung, H. J. Kim, S. Sastry, "Autonomous Exploration in Unknown Urban Environments for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," AIAA GN&C Conference, San Francisco, August 2005

J. Mikael Eklund, Jonathan Sprinkle, S. Shankar Sastry, "Implementing and Testing a Nonlinear Model Predictive Tracking Controller for Aerial Pursuit Evasion Games on a Fixed Wing Aircraft", Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC) 2005, (In Publication), Portland, OR, Jun., 8--10, 2005.

Jonathan Sprinkle, J. Mikael Eklund, H. Jin Kim, S. Shankar Sastry, "Encoding Aerial Pursuit/Evasion Games with Fixed Wing Aircraft into a Nonlinear Model Predictive Tracking Controller", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,  Dec., 2004.

R. Vidal, O. Shakernia, H. J. Kim, H. Shim, S. Sastry, "Multi-Agent Probabilistic Pursuit-Evasion Games with Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol.18, no.5, pp. 662-669, October 2002

H. J. Kim, R. Vidal, D. H. Shim, O. Shakernia, S. Sastry, "A Hierarchical Approach to Probabilistic Pursuit-Evasion Games with Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2001

Vision-based Navigation

T. Templeton, D. H. Shim, and S. Sastry, “Autonomous Vision-based Terrain Mapping using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,” International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007.

M. Meingast, C. Geyer, and S. Sastry, Vision based terrain recovery for landing unmanned aerial vehicles, to appear in Proceedings of the Conference on Decision and Control, December, 2005, Bahamas.

O. Shakernia, C. S. Sharp, R. Vidal, D. H. Shim, Y. Ma, S. Sastry, "Multiple View Motion Estimation and Control for Landing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle," International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002.

Vehicle Control

D. H. Shim and S. Sastry, "An Evasive Maneuvering Algorithm for UAVs in See-and-Avoid Situations," American Control Conference, 2007

D. H. Shim and S. Sastry, “A Situation-aware Flight Control System Design using Real-time Model Predictive Control for Unmanned Autonomous Helicopters,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Keystone, CO, 2006.

Jonathan Sprinkle, J. Mikael Eklund, S. Shankar Sastry, &quotDeciding to Land a UAV Safely in Real Time", Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC) 2005, (In Publication), Portland, OR, Jun., 8--10, 2005.

D. H. Shim, H. J. Kim, S. Sastry, “Decentralized Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Multiple Flying Robots in Dynamic Environments,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2003.

D. H. Shim, H. J. Kim, S. Sastry, "A Flight Control System for Aerial Robots: Algorithms and Experiments," IFAC Control Engineering Practice, 2003

D. H. Shim, H. J. Kim, H. Chung, S. Sastry, "A Flight Control system for Aerial Robots: Algorithms and Experiments," 15^th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, July 2002

H. J. Kim, D. H. Shim, S. Sastry, "Flying Robots: Modeling, Control, and Decision Making," International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2002.

D. H. Shim, H. J. Kim, S. Sastry, "Nonlinear Model Predictive Tracking Control for Rotorcraft-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," American Control Conference, Alaska, May 2002

D. H. Shim, H. J. Kim, H. Chung, S. Sastry, "Multi-functional Autopilot Design and Experiments for Rotorcraft-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," 20^th Digital Avionics system Conference, Florida, 2001

D. H. Shim, H. J. Kim, S. Sastry, "System Identification and Control Synthesis for Rotorcraft-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Anchorage, September 2000.

D. H. Shim, H. J. Kim, S. Sastry, "Hierarchical Control System Synthesis for Rotorcraft-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Denver, August 2000.

D. H. Shim, T. J. Koo, F. Hoffmann, S. Sastry, "A Comprehensive Study on Control Design of Autonomous Helicopter", Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florida, December 1998.

Tak-John Koo, Frank Hoffmann, H. Shim, B. Sinopoli, S. Sastry, "Hybrid Control of an Autonomous Helicopter", IFAC Workshop on Motion Control, 21-23 September 1998, Grenoble, France.

T. J. Koo, D. H. Shim, O. Shakernia, B. Sinopoli, Y. Ma, F. Hoffmann, S. Sastry, "Hierarchical Hybrid System Design on Berkeley UAV", International Aerial Robotics Competition, Richland, Washington, USA, August 1998