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  1. Making a Flying Wing Aircraft Safer to Fly: A Smarter Autopilot That Knows Its Limits

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Direnc Atmaca, Erik-Jan van Kampen, Tim Traas

  2. Adaptive Incremental Dynamic Inversion for Fault-tolerant Flight Control of a Flying Wing

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Direnc Atmaca, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  3. Active Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion for Sensor and Actuator Fault-Tolerant Control

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Direnc Atmaca, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  4. A Multi-step and Eligibility Trace Approach to Incremental Dual Heuristic Programming for Flight Control

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  5. Uncertainty-Driven Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Flight Control

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  6. Fault Tolerant Control for the Flying-V Using Adaptive Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen, Direnc Atmaca

  7. Longitudinal Handling Qualities Evaluation for Soft Actor-Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning Flight Control

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  8. Safe & Intelligent Control: Hybrid and Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Flight Control

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  9. Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning: A Hybrid Approach for Safety-informed Intelligent Fault-tolerant Flight Control

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen, Vlad Gavra

  10. Hybrid Soft Actor-Critic and Incremental Dual Heuristic Programming Reinforcement Learning for Fault-Tolerant Flight Control

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  11. Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion control with Flight Envelope Protection for the Flying-V

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen, Jurian Stougie

  12. Autonomous Navigation for Binary Asteroid Landing

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Erwin Mooij, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  13. Flight Testing Reinforcement Learning based Online Adaptive Flight Control Laws on CS-25 Class Aircraft

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  14. 3D real-time path planning of UAVs in dynamic environments in the presence of uncertainty

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  15. Intelligent Adaptive Control Using LADP and IADP Applied to F-16 Aircraft with Imperfect Measurements

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen, Jose Ignacio de Alvear Cardenas

  16. Toward Individual-Sensitive Automation for Air Traffic Control Using Convolutional Neural Networks

    Article • Journal of Air Transportation, July 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  17. Flexible Aircraft Gust Load Alleviation with Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, July 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Dr Roeland De Breuker, Erik-Jan van Kampen, Xuerui Wang

  18. Stability Analysis for Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Control

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen, Xuerui Wang

  19. Incremental Sliding-Mode Fault-Tolerant Flight Control

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, February 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen, Xuerui Wang

  20. Intelligent Nonlinear Adaptive Flight Control using Incremental Approximate Dynamic Programming

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  21. Advancements for A* and RRT in 3D path planning of UAVs

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  22. Continuous state and action Q-learning framework applied to quadrotor UAV control

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  23. Reinforcement Learning-based Control Allocation for the Innovative Control Effectors Aircraft

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen, Pieter de Vries

  24. Flight test of Quadcopter Guidance with Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  25. Design and Flight Testing of Incremental Backstepping based Control Laws with Angular Accelerometer Feedback

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen, Twan Keijzer

  26. Incremental Backstepping Sliding Mode Fault-Tolerant Flight Control

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen, Xuerui Wang

  27. Incremental Approximate Dynamic Programming for Nonlinear Adaptive Tracking Control with Partial Observability

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, December 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  28. Effects of Structural Failure on the Safe Flight Envelope of Aircraft

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, June 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  29. Framework for Simultaneous Sensor and Actuator Fault-Tolerant Flight Control

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, August 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen, Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu

  30. Nonlinear Adaptive Flight Control Using Incremental Approximate Dynamic Programming and Output Feedback

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, February 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen, Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu

  31. Experimental Validation of the Selective Velocity Obstacle method for Autonomous Collision Avoidance

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen, Ms Cherry Cheung

  32. Safe and Autonomous UAV Navigation using Graph Policies

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  33. Gust Load Alleviation and Ride Quality Improvement with Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen, Xuerui Wang

  34. Efficient Nonlinear Actuator Fault Reconstruction System

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Mr Peng Lu, Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  35. An Anti-windup Fault Tolerant Control Scheme with Guaranteed Transient Performance for Tailless Flying Wing Aircrafts

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  36. Human Demonstrations for Fast and Safe Exploration in Reinforcement Learning

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Gerben Schonebaum, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  37. Intelligent Controller Selection for Aggressive Quadrotor Manoeuvring

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Djim D Molenkamp, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  38. Hierarchically Structured Controllers for Safe UAV Reinforcement Learning Applications

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  39. Three-Dimensional Velocity Obstacle Method for Uncoordinated Avoidance Maneuvers of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, October 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  40. Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, April 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  41. Adaptive Three-Step Kalman Filter for Air Data Sensor Fault Detection and Diagnosis

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Mr Peng Lu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  42. Efficient Methods for Flight Envelope Estimation through Reachability Analysis

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  43. An Incremental Approximate Dynamic Programming Flight Controller Based on Output Feedback

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  44. A novel approach with safety metrics for real-time exploration of uncertain environments

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  45. Safety Assessment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operations in an Integrated Airspace

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  46. Graph based dynamic policy for UAV navigation

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  47. Adaptive Incremental Backstepping Flight Control for a High-Performance Aircraft with Uncertainties

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  48. Self-tuning Gains of a Quadrotor using a Simple Model for Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  49. Three-Dimensional Velocity Obstacle Method for UAV's Uncoordinated Avoidance Maneuver

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  50. An Optimization Paradigm for Arrival Trajectories usingTrajectory Segmentation and State Parameterization

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  51. Aircraft Inertial Measurement Unit Fault Identification with Application to Real Flight Data

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, December 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Mr Peng Lu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  52. Selective-Reinitialization Multiple-Model Adaptive Estimation for Fault Detection and Diagnosis

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, August 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Mr Peng Lu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  53. Optimal Control Framework for Estimating Autopilot Safety Margins

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  54. Selective Velocity Obstacle Method for Deconflicting Maneuvers Applied to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  55. Conflict Detection and Resolution System Architecture for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Civil Airspace

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  56. Three-Dimensional Velocity Obstacle Method for UAV Deconflicting Maneuvers

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  57. Quadrotor System Identification Using the Multivariate Multiplex B-Spline

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Erik-Jan van Kampen

  58. Aircraft Inertial Measurement Unit Fault Identification with Application to Real Flight Data

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Mr Peng Lu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  59. Aircraft Upset and Recovery Simulation with the DLR Robot Motion Simulator

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  60. Air Data Sensor Fault Detection and Diagnosis with Application to Real Flight Data

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Mr Peng Lu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  61. Active Fault-Tolerant Control System using Incremental Backstepping Approach

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Mr Peng Lu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  62. SHERPA: a safe exploration algorithm for Reinforcement Learning controllers

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  63. Distance Fields Over Grid method for Aircraft Envelope Determination

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  64. Robustness and Tuning of Incremental Backstepping Approach

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Mr Peng Lu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  65. Reinforcement Learning Applied to a Quadrotor Guidance Law in Autonomous Flight

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  66. Geometry Based Quick Aircraft Modeling Method for Upset Recovery Applications

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  67. Guaranteed Globally Optimal continuous Reinforcement Learning

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  68. Exploring Adaptive Incremental Backstepping using Immersion and Invariance for an F-16 aircraft

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  69. Selective Reinitialisation Multiple Model Adaptive Estimation for Fault Detection and Diagnosis

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Mr Peng Lu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  70. Adaptive Hybrid Unscented Kalman Filter for Aircraft Sensor Fault Detection, Isolation and Reconstruction

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Mr Peng Lu, Erik-Jan van Kampen

  71. Velocity Obstacle Method for Non-cooperative Autonomous Collision Avoidance System for UAVs

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Qiping Q.P. Chu, Erik-Jan van Kampen