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  1. Wind and Turbulence Distributed Sensing for Advanced Air Mobility

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

    Dr Nhan Nguyen, Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr Kapil S Sheth

  2. Distributed Sensing for Advanced Air Mobility in Varying Environments

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  3. Cross Validation of Sensor Inputs as Part of Position Estimation for Urban Air Mobility

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Keerthana Kannan, Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  4. Vision-based Approach and Landing with Distributed Sensing and Hierarchical Mixture of Experts

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

    Keerthana Kannan, Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  5. Sensing Small Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles With Distributed Radars for Advanced Air Mobility Surveillance

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  6. Considerations for Optimal Sensor Placement for Higher Accuracy Object Localization for Urban Air Mobility

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Keerthana Kannan

  7. Large-Scale Simulation of a Distributed Sensing Network Supporting Regional Urban Air Mobility Operations

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Keerthana Kannan, Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  8. Enabling Smart Urban Airspaces Through Distributed Sensing Technologies

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Keerthana Kannan

  9. Optimal Communication Topology Construction and Sensor Selection for Independent Airspace Surveillance

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  10. Distributed Vision Sensing of Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems in Urban Traffic Corridors

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  11. Design and Evaluation of Nonlinear Inversion Based Automated Landing Control for an Airliner in a High Crosswind Scenario

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  12. Simplified Vehicle Control Concept for a Lift Plus Cruise eVTOL Vehicle

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  13. Statistical Analysis of Recent Go Around Flight Data to Study and Evaluate Skilled Pilot Monitoring

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr Peter M. T. Zaal

  14. Development and Field Test Results of Distributed Ground-Based Sensor Fusion Object Tracking

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Keerthana Kannan, Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  15. Flight Test Design and Implementation for Independent Surveillance of an Airspace Through a Distributed Ground Sensing Network

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Keerthana Kannan

  16. Optimal Sensor Mobility Design for Target Tracking with Distributed Sensing, Communication and Computing Infrastructure

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  17. Ground-Based Vision Tracker for Advanced Air Mobility and Urban Air Mobility

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Keerthana Kannan

  18. Adaptive Sensor Registration Across Distributed Airspace Surveillance Networks

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  19. Distributed Sensor Fusion of Ground and Air Nodes using Vision and Radar Modalities for Tracking Multirotor Small Uncrewed Air Systems and Birds

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Keerthana Kannan, Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  20. Experimental testing of data fusion in a distributed ground-based sensing network for Advanced Air Mobility

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  21. Command and Control Concepts for a Lift Plus Cruise Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Vehicle

    Article • June 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  22. Distributed Ground Sensor Fusion Based Object Tracking for Autonomous Advanced Air Mobility Operations

    Article • January 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  23. Adaptive Multi-Sensor Fusion Based Object Tracking for Autonomous Urban Air Mobility Operations

    Article • January 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  24. Ground to air testing of a fused optical-radar aircraft detection and tracking system

    Article • January 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  25. Trim Envelope Calculations for a Tiltrotor in Forward Flight, Hover and Transitions

    Article • IFAC-PapersOnLine, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  26. Adaptive Multi-Sensor Information Fusion For Autonomous Urban Air Mobility Operations

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  27. Survey of Capabilities and Gaps in External Perception Sensors for Autonomous Urban Air Mobility Applications

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Keerthana Kannan

  28. A Modeling Approach for Handling Qualities and Controls Safety Analysis of Electric Air Taxi Vehicles

    Article • June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  29. Control Concepts for Simplified Vehicle Operations of a Quadrotor eVTOL Vehicle

    Article • June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  30. Dynamic Inversion based Full Envelope Flight Control for an eVTOL Vehicle using a Unified Framework

    Article • January 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  31. Evaluation of Technology Concepts for Energy, Automation, and System State Awareness in Commercial Airline Flight Decks

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

    Lynda Kramer, Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  32. Piloted Simulation Study Findings On Stall Recovery Guidance

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Lynda Kramer, Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  33. Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Based Attitude Control for a hovering quad tiltrotor eVTOL vehicle

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Bimal Aponso

  34. Design and Piloted Simulator Evaluation Results of Model Independent Stall Recovery Guidance

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Lynda Kramer

  35. 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

  36. Piloted Simulator Evaluation Results of Flight Physics Based Stall Recovery Guidance

    Article • January 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  37. Proof of concept simulator demonstration of a physics based self-preserving flight envelope protection algorithm

    Article • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  38. Design and Piloted Simulator Evaluation of Adaptive Safe Flight Envelope Protection Algorithm

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  39. Simulator experiments to evaluate flight envelope boundary indicators for preventing loss of control

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  40. Aircraft Mode and Energy-State Prediction, Assessment, and Alerting

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  41. Intelligent Flight Control Systems Evaluation for Loss-of-Control Recovery and Prevention

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  42. Stall Recovery Guidance Using Fast Model Predictive Control

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  43. Stall Recovery Guidance Using an Energy Based Algorithm

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  44. Autonomous Flight Envelope Estimation for Loss-of-Control Prevention

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  45. Design and Piloted Simulator Evaluation of Adaptive Safe Flight Envelope Protection Algorithm

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  46. Design and evaluation of a Flight Envelope Protection haptic feedback system

    Article • IFAC-PapersOnLine, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  47. Development and Concept Demonstration of a Physics Based Adaptive Flight Envelope Protection Algorithm**This work was supported by a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (IOF) and the ACROSS project (advanced cockpit for the reduction of stres...

    Article • IFAC-PapersOnLine, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  48. Trajectory Prediction and Alerting for Aircraft Mode and Energy State Awareness

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  49. Piloted Simulator Evaluation of Maneuvering Envelope Information for Flight Crew Awareness

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  50. On-Line Safe Flight Envelope Determination for Impaired Aircraft

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  51. An Adaptive Nonlinear Aircraft Maneuvering Envelope Estimation Approach for Online Applications

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  52. Robust maneuvering envelope estimation based on reachability analysis in an optimal control formulation

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  53. Safe Maneuvering Envelope Estimation based on a Physical Approach

    Article • August 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  54. Design and Flight Testing of Nonlinear Autoflight Control Laws Incorporating Direct Lift Control

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  55. Design and simulation of fault tolerant flight control based on a physical approach

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, December 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  56. Aerodynamic Model Identification of Frauke UAV

    Article • August 2012, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  57. Design and flight testing of nonlinear autoflight control laws

    Article • August 2012, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  58. Automatic Flight Control Systems - Latest Developments

    Article • January 2012, IntechOpen

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  59. Tool-Based Design and Evaluation of Resilient Flight Control Systems

    Article • January 2012, IntechOpen

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  60. Design and flight testing of manual nonlinear flight control laws

    Article • August 2011, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  61. Modular flight control reconfiguration design and simulation

    Article • Control Engineering Practice, June 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  62. Fault Tolerant Flight Control, a Physical Model Approach

    Article • April 2011, IntechOpen

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  63. Adaptive Nonlinear Flight Control and Control Allocation for Failure Resilience

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  64. Pseudo Control Hedging and its Application for Safe Flight Envelope Protection

    Article • August 2010, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  65. Piloted Simulator Evaluation Results of New Fault-Tolerant Flight Control Algorithm

    Article • August 2010, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  66. Online Aerodynamic Model Structure Selection and Parameter Estimation for Fault Tolerant Control

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2010, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  67. Fault Tolerant Flight Control

    Article • January 2010

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  68. Introduction

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  69. Assessment Criteria as Specifications for Reconfiguring Flight Control

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  70. RECOVER: A Benchmark for Integrated Fault Tolerant Flight Control Evaluation

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  71. Flight Control Reconfiguration Based on Online Physical Model Identification and Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  72. Real-Time Assessment and Piloted Evaluation of Fault Tolerant Flight Control Designs in the SIMONA Research Flight Simulator

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  73. Piloted Evaluation Results of a Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Based Controller Using Online Physical Model Identification

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  74. Concluding Remarks

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  75. Piloted Simulator Evaluation Results of New Fault-Tolerant Flight Control Algorithm

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, November 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  76. On-Line Aerodynamic Model Structure Selection and Parameter Estimation for Fault Tolerant Control

    Article • August 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  77. Nonlinear Reconfiguring Flight Control Based on Online Physical Model Identification

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  78. Flight Control Reconfiguration based on a Modular Approac

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  79. A Benchmark for Fault Tolerant Flight Control Evaluation

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  80. Flight Control Reconfiguration based on Online Physical Model Identification and Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion

    Article • August 2008, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  81. Computationally Efficient Use of MPC and Dynamic Inversion for Reconfigurable Flight Control

    Article • August 2008, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  82. Piloted Simulator Evaluation of New Fault-Tolerant Flight Control Algorithms for Reconstructed Accident Scenarios

    Article • August 2008, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  83. A Simulation Benchmark for Integrated Fault Tolerant Flight Control Evaluation

    Article • August 2006, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  84. Design of a robust Flight Control System for a Mini-UAV

    Article • August 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts