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  1. Deep Learning-Based Data Association in Infrared Camera Images for GPS-Denied Aircraft Landing

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

    Tim McLain

  2. Infrared-Constellation-Aided Landing of eVTOL Aircraft

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

    Tim McLain, Aaron Brown

  3. Decentralized UAV Tracking with Networked Radar Systems

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

    Tim McLain

  4. Cooperative Relative Navigation of Multiple Aircraft in Global Positioning System-Denied/Degraded Environments

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, August 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Kevin Brink, Tim McLain

  5. Ground-Based Sense-and-Avoid System for Small Unmanned Aircraft

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, August 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  6. Minimum Required Detection Range for Detect and Avoid of Unmanned Aircraft Systems

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, July 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  7. A Well Clear Recommendation for Small UAS in High-Density, ADS-B-Enabled Airspace

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

    Tim McLain

  8. Relative Navigation in GPS-Degraded Environments

    Article • May 2016, Wiley

    Tim McLain

  9. Finding a safe place to land a rotorcraft in a city environment.

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

    Tim McLain

  10. Unmanned aircraft path planning for sense and avoid

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

    Tim McLain, Dr Andrew Ning

  11. Estimating position and attitude states of rotorcraft relative to the environment without GPS

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, December 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  12. Implementing Dubins Airplane Paths on Fixed-Wing UAVs*

    Article • August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim McLain

  13. Aerial Rendezvous of Small Unmanned Aircraft Using a Passive Towed Cable System

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, July 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  14. Tailsitter heading estimation using a magnetometer

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  15. Quaternion based attitude error for a tailsitter in hover flight

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  16. Tailsitter attitude control using resolved tilt-twist

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  17. Quadrotors and Accelerometers: State Estimation with an Improved Dynamic Model

    Article • IEEE Control Systems, February 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  18. Relative Navigation Approach for Vision-Based Aerial GPS-Denied Navigation

    Article • Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim McLain

  19. A Radar-Based, Tree-Branching Sense and Avoid System for Small Unmanned Aircraft

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

    Tim McLain

  20. Non-Redundant Sensor Fault Detection for Autonomous Rotorcraft using an Improved Dynamic Model

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

    Tim McLain

  21. Robust Motion Estimation with RBG-D Cameras

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

    Tim McLain

  22. A Nonlinear Guidance Law for Visual Pursuit of a Cooperative Aerial Target in Wind

    Article • International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, June 2013, SAGE Publications

    Tim McLain

  23. Relative navigation approach for vision-based aerial GPS-denied navigation

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

    Tim McLain

  24. Analysis of an Improved IMU-Based Observer for Multirotor Helicopters

    Article • Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim McLain

  25. Design and Control of a Maneuverable Towed Aerial Vehicle

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

    Tim McLain

  26. Vision-Enhanced Aerial Rendezvous Along Elliptical Paths

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

    Tim McLain

  27. Relative navigation and control of a hexacopter

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  28. Small Unmanned Aircraft

    Article • January 2012, De Gruyter

    Tim McLain

  29. Differential flatness based control of a rotorcraft for aggressive maneuvers

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  30. Utilizing an improved rotorcraft dynamic model in state estimation

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  31. Utilizing an improved rotorcraft dynamic model in state estimation

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  32. Differential flatness based control of a rotorcraft for aggressive maneuvers

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  33. Moving ground target tracking in urban terrain using air/ground vehicles

    Article • December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  34. Energy Harvesting and Mission Effectiveness for Small Unmanned Aircraft

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

    Tim McLain

  35. Piezoresistive Feedback Control of a MEMS Thermal Actuator

    Article • Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, December 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  36. Performance Flight Testing of Small, Electric Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Article • International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, November 2009, SAGE Publications

    Tim McLain

  37. Vision-Based Precision Landings of a Tailsitter UAV

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

    Tim McLain

  38. Payload Directed Flight of Miniature Air Vehicles

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

    Tim McLain

  39. Image Resolution-Based Path Planning and Metrics for Exhaustive Area Search from Small UAVs

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

    Tim McLain

  40. Design and Implementation of a Panoramic Video System from Multiple Cameras Aboard a Small UAV

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

    Tim McLain

  41. Vision-Based Landing of Fixed-Wing Miniature Air Vehicles

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, March 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  42. Dynamics and control of cable-drogue system in aerial recovery of Micro Air Vehicles based on Gauss's Principle

    Article • January 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  43. Aerobatic Maneuvering of Miniature Air Vehicles Using Attitude Trajectories

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

    Tim McLain

  44. Adaptive quaternion control of a miniature tailsitter UAV

    Article • June 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  45. Observations of piezoresistivity for polysilicon in bending that are unexplained by linear models

    Article • Sensors and Actuators A Physical, February 2008, Elsevier

    Tim McLain

  46. Quaternion attitude estimation for miniature air vehicles using a multiplicative extended Kalman filter

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  47. Experimental validation of an autonomous control system on a mobile robot platform

    Article • IET Control Theory and Applications, November 2007, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Tim McLain

  48. Obstacle Avoidance Using Circular Paths

    Article • August 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  49. Experiments in Cooperative Timing for Miniature Air Vehicles

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, August 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  50. Vector Field Path Following for Miniature Air Vehicles

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Robotics, June 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  51. Probabilistic Searching Using a Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

    Article • May 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  52. Vision-Based Landing of Fixed-Wing Miniature Air Vehicles

    Article • May 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  53. Autonomous Landing of Miniature Aerial Vehicles

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, May 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  54. Piezoresistive in-line integrated force sensors for on-chip measurement and control

    Article • April 2007, SPIE

    Tim McLain

  55. Exploring the resistance change trends associated with integrated piezoresistive sensing elements

    Article • April 2007, SPIE

    Tim McLain

  56. Managing autonomy in robot teams

    Article • March 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Tim McLain

  57. Performance Evaluation of Vision-Based Navigation and Landing on a Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

    Article • February 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  58. Design Factors Influencing Power Reduction in Thermomechanical In-Plane Microactuators

    Article • January 2007, ASME International

    Tim McLain

  59. Vision-based Target Geo-location using a Fixed-wing Miniature Air Vehicle

    Article • Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, November 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim McLain

  60. Maximizing miniature aerial vehicles

    Article • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, September 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  61. Preliminary Modeling, Control, and Trajectory Design for Miniature Autonomous Tailsitters

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

    Tim McLain

  62. Decentralized Cooperative Aerial Surveillance Using Fixed-Wing Miniature UAVs

    Article • Proceedings of the IEEE, July 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  63. Cooperative forest fire surveillance using a team of small unmanned air vehicles

    Article • International Journal of Systems Science, May 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Tim McLain

  64. Piezoresistive sensing of bistable micro mechanism state

    Article • Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, March 2006, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Tim McLain

  65. Piezoresistive feedback for improving transient response of MEMS thermal actuators

    Article • March 2006, SPIE

    Tim McLain

  66. Learning Real-Time A* Path Planner for Unmanned Air Vehicle Target Sensing

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, March 2006, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  67. Vector field path following for small unmanned air vehicles

    Article • January 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  68. Vision-based target localization from a fixed-wing miniature air vehicle

    Article • January 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  69. Static and Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance in Miniature Air Vehicles

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

    Tim McLain

  70. Autonomous Landing of Miniature Aerial Vehicles

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

    Tim McLain

  71. Decentralized Perimeter Surveillance Using a Team of UAVs

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

    Tim McLain

  72. Real-time dynamic trajectory smoothing for unmanned air vehicles

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, May 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  73. Improved Nanopositioning Resolution Through Piezoresistive Feedback Control of a MEMS Thermal Actuator

    Article • January 2005, ASME International

    Tim McLain

  74. Coordination Variables, Coordination Functions, and Cooperative Timing Missions

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, January 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  75. Autonomous Vehicle Technologies for Small Fixed-Wing UAVs

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, January 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  76. Coordination Variables and Consensus Building in Multiple Vehicle Systems

    Article • November 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim McLain

  77. Initial Experiments in Cooperative Control of Unmanned Air Vehicles

    Article • September 2004, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  78. COORDINATED UAV TARGET ASSIGNMENT USING DISTRIBUTED TOUR CALCULATION

    Article • August 2004, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Tim McLain

  79. Feedback Control of a Thermomechanical Inplane Microactuator Using Piezoresistive Displacement Sensing

    Article • January 2004, ASME International

    Tim McLain

  80. Autonomous Vehicle Technologies for Small Fixed Wing UAVs

    Article • September 2003, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  81. Learning Real-Time A* Path Planner for Sensing Closely-Spaced Targets from an Aircraft

    Article • August 2003, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  82. Coordinated target assignment and intercept for unmanned air vehicles

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, December 2002, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  83. Experimental Demonstration of Multiple Robot Cooperative Target Intercept

    Article • August 2002, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  84. Spline based path planning for unmanned air vehicles

    Article • August 2001, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  85. Application of an Optimal Control Synthesis Strategy to an Electro-Hydraulic Positioning System

    Article • Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, January 2001, ASME International

    Tim McLain

  86. Fuel saving strategies for separated spacecraft interferometry

    Article • August 2000, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  87. Trajectory planning for coordinated rendezvous of unmanned air vehicles

    Article • August 2000, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  88. Fuel Optimization for Constrained Rotation of Spacecraft Formations

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2000, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  89. Nonlinear robust missile autopilot design using successive Galerkin approximation

    Article • August 1999, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  90. Nonlinear optimal control design of a missile autopilot

    Article • August 1998, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Tim McLain

  91. Fuel equalized retargeting for separated spacecraft interferometry

    Article • January 1998, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  92. A practical algorithm for designing nonlinear H/sub /spl infin// control laws

    Article • January 1998, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  93. Experiments in the Coordinated Control of an Underwater Arm/Vehicle System

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim McLain

  94. Experiments in the coordinated control of an underwater arm/vehicle system

    Article • Autonomous Robots, January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim McLain

  95. Techniques in the Design of Thermomechanical Microactuators

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim McLain

  96. Cooperative path planning for timing-critical missions

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  97. Synthesis and experimental testing of a nonlinear optimal tracking controller

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  98. Coordinated target assignment and intercept for unmanned air vehicles

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  99. Multiple UAV cooperative search under collision avoidance and limited range communication constraints

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  100. Successive Galerkin approximation of nonlinear optimal attitude

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  101. Forest fire monitoring with multiple small UAVs

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  102. Obstacle and Terrain Avoidance for Miniature Aerial Vehicles

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim McLain

  103. Successive Galerkin approximations to the nonlinear optimal control of an underwater robotic vehicle

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  104. Autonomous hierarchical control of multiple unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs)

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain

  105. Nonlinear tracking control for nonholonomic mobile robots with input constraints: an experimental study

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tim McLain