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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Vision-Based Distributed Sensing at Vertiports for Advanced Air Mobility and Urban Air Mobility Approach and Landing

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Keerthana Kannan

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Hierarchical Mixture of Experts for Advanced Air Mobility Flight Phase Classification

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

    Keerthana Kannan, Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  13. 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

  14. Optimal Service Migration for Data and Reasoning Fabric

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, September 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  15. Pursuit-Evasion Game approach to Tree-Based Path Planning for Airborne Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Input Constrained M-MRAC for Multirotors Operating in an Urban Environment

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  19. 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

  20. Real-Time Path Planning for Multi-copters flying in UTM -TCL4

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  21. Coordinated Turn Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control for Multirotors Operating in Urban Environment

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  22. An Autonomy Architecture Concept for High-Density Operations of Small UAS in Urban Environments

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  23. Autonomous UAS Operations in High-Density Low-Altitude Urban Environments

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  24. 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

  25. Stall Recovery Guidance Using Fast Model Predictive Control

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan, Dr Thomas Lombaerts

  26. Stall Recovery Guidance Using an Energy Based Algorithm

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

    Dr Thomas Lombaerts, Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  27. Estimation, Navigation and Control of Multi-Rotor Drones in an Urban Wind Field

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  28. Concepts of Airspace Structures and System Analysis for UAS Traffic flows for Urban Areas

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  29. 3D LiDAR SLAM Integration with GPS/INS for UAVs in Urban GPS-Degraded Environments

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  30. Safe Autonomous Flight Environment (SAFE50) for the Notional Last “50 ft” of Operation of “55 lb” Class of UAS

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  31. Loss-of-Control Mitigation via Predictive Cuing

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  32. Stall Recovery Guidance Algorithms Based on Constrained Control Approaches

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  33. Identification and reconfigurable Control of Impaired Multi-Rotor Drones

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  34. 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

  35. State and Output Feedback Certainty Equivalence M-MRAC for Systems with Unmatched Uncertainties

    Article • Asian Journal of Control, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  36. M-MRAC for SPHERES

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan

  37. Output Feedback M-MRAC Backstepping With Aerospace Applications

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

    Dr Vahram Stepanyan