Meyer Nahon

2023

F. Butt, M. Nahon and M. P. Paidoussis, “Dynamics of a confined pipe aspirating fluid concurrently subjected to external axial flow: Experiments on confinement length effects”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 571, 2023.

M. Nahon, Z. Zhuo, S. Yang, I. Sharf, R. Cavallaro and S. Morris, “Modeling of a Wind-Turbine-Powered Ground Vehicle”, AIAA Wind Energy Conference, National Harbor, MD, 2023.

M. Nahon, Z. Zhuo, S. Yang, I. Sharf, R. Cavallaro and S. Morris, “Modeling of the Blackbird Wind-Powered Ground Vehicle”, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, National Harbor, MD, 2023.

2022

E. Bulka and M. Nahon. “Reactive Obstacle- Avoidance for Agile, Fixed-Wing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”. In: Field Robotics 2 (2022), pp. 1507–1566.

Fares El Tin et al. “Turn decisions for autonomous thermalling of unmanned aerial gliders”. In: Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 104.2 (2022), p. 25.

Juan Carlos Hern´andez-Ram´ırez and Meyer Nahon. “Nonlinear Control for Semiautonomous Operation of Agile Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”. In: Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 105.3 (2022), p. 57.

Jackson Empey and Meyer Nahon. “In-Flight Validation of Propeller Slipstream Model”. In: 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). IEEE. 2022, pp. 802–811.

Jackson Empey and Meyer Nahon. “Feedforward Control for Wind Rejection in Fixed-Wing UAVs”. In: 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). IEEE. 2022, pp. 1185–1193.

Fares El Tin, Inna Sharf, and Meyer Nahon. “Fire Monitoring with a Fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”. In: 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). IEEE. 2022, pp. 1350–1358.

Juan Carlos Hern´andez Ram´ırez and Meyer Nahon. “Aerobatics on Three-Dimensional Paths for Agile Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”. In: 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). IEEE. 2022, pp. 1547–1554.

2021

J.-C. Hernandez Ramirez and M. Nahon. “A Gravity-Referenced Moving Frame for Vehicle Path Following Applications in 3D,” Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 4393-4400, 2021. Presented at ICRA 2021.

F. Butt, M. P. Paidoussis and M. Nahon. “Dynamics of a Confined Pipe Aspirating Fluid and Concurrently Subjected to External Axial Flow: an Experimental Investigation,” Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 104, July 2021.

F. Butt, M. P. Paidoussis and M. Nahon. “Dynamics of a Confined Pipe Aspirating Fluid and Concurrently Subjected to External Axial Flow: a Theoretical Investigation,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 509, Sept. 2021.

M. Paidoussis, A. Abdelbaki, M. Butt, M. Tavallaeinejad, K. Moditis, A. Misra, M. Nahon and J. Ratigan. “Dynamics of a Cantilevered Pipe Subjected to Internal and External Axial Flow: A Review,” Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 106, Oct. 2021.

E. Bulka and M. Nahon. “A Unified Controller for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” Autonomous Robots, Vol. 45, pp. 859-883, 2021.

J. Hernandez Ramirez and M. Nahon. “A Gravity- Referenced Moving Frame for Vehicle Path Following Applications in 3D,” International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2021), Xi’an, China, May 30-June 5, 2021.

F. El Tin, C. Patience, A. Borowczyk, M. Nahon and I. Sharf. “Exploitation of Thermals in Powered and Unpowered Flight of Autonomous Gliders,” International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’21), Athens, Greece, June 15-18, 2021.

J. Hernandez Ramirez and M. Nahon. “Pilot-Assist Landing System for Hover Capable Unmanned Fixed-Wing Aerial Vehicles in All Flight Regimes,” International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’21), Athens, Greece, June 15-18, 2021.

2020

J. Hernandez Ramirez and M. Nahon, 2020, ‘Trajectory Tracking Control of Highly Maneuverable Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’, 2020 AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, FL, January 6 – 10.

F. El Tin, I. Sharf and M. Nahon, 2020, ‘Unmanned Aerial Glider for Wildfire Surveillance’, 2020 AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, FL, January 6 – 10.

J. Hernandez Ramirez and M. Nahon, 2020, ‘Nonlinear Vector-Projection Control for Agile Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2020), Paris, France, May 31-June 4.

C. Patience and M. Nahon, 2020, ‘Control of a Passively-Coupled Hybrid Aircraft’, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’20), Athens, Greece, Sept 1-4.

R. Chiappinelli, M. Nahon, and J. Apkarian, 2020, ‘The Simulator-in-Hardware: a Low Cost and Hard Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator for Flying Vehicles’, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’20), Athens, Greece, Sept 1-4.

L. N. Thai, M. Nahon and G. Charland-Arcand, 2020, ‘Scaling Effects on Controllers for Multirotors’, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’20), Athens, Greece, Sept 1-4.

T. Tariq and M. Nahon, 2020, ‘Constrained Control Allocation Approaches in Trajectory Control of a Quadrotor Under Actuator Saturation’, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’20), Athens, Greece, Sept 1-4.

F. El Tin, A. Borowczyk, I. Sharf and M. Nahon, 2020, ‘Turn Decision-Making for Improved Autonomous Thermalling of Unmanned Aerial Gliders’, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’20), Athens, Greece, Sept 1-4.

W. Jothiraj, I. Sharf and M. Nahon, 2020, ‘Control Allocation of Bidirectional Thrust Quadrotor Subject to Actuator Constraints’, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’20), Athens, Greece, Sept 1-4.

2019

E. Bulka and M. Nahon, 2019, “Automatic Control for Aerobatic Maneuvering of Agile Fixed-Wing UAVs”, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Vol. 93, Issue 1–2, pp. 85–100. [Journal Impact Factor: 2.02]

M. Al-Solihat and M. Nahon, 2019, “Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of a Spar Floating Offshore Wind Turbine with Consideration of Rotor Speed Variations”, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 141, No. 8, 12 pages. [Journal Impact Factor: 1.47]

J. Levin, A. Paranjape and M. Nahon, 2019, “Agile Maneuvering with a Small Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 116, pp. 148-161. [Journal Impact Factor: 2.93]

A Battiston, I. Sharf and M. Nahon, 2019, “Attitude Estimation for Collision Recovery of a Quadcopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”. International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 38, No. 10-11, pp. 1286-1306. [Journal Impact Factor: 6.13]

J. Levin, A. Paranjape and M. Nahon, 2019, “Real-Time Motion Planning with a Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using an Agile Maneuver Space”, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 43, No. 8, pp. 2111–2130. [Journal Impact Factor: 3.63]

R. Chiappinelli, M. Cohen, M. Doff-Sottay, M. Nahon, J. R. Forbes and J. Apkarian, 2019, “Modeling and Control of a Passively-Coupled Tilt-Rotor Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft”, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2019), Montreal, Canada, May 20-24.

M. F. Javed Butt, M. P. Paidoussis and M. Nahon, 2019, “Dynamics of a Confined Pipe Aspirating Fluid: an Experimental Investigation”, 27th Canadian Congress on Applied Mechanics (CANCAM 2019), Sherbrooke, QC, May 27-30.

S. Fielding and M. Nahon, 2019, “Input Shaped Trajectory Generation and Controller Design for a Quadrotor-Slung Load System”, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’19), Atlanta, GA, June 11-14.

E. Bulka and M. Nahon, 2019, “High-Speed Obstacle-Avoidance with Agile Fixed-Wing Aircraft”, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’19), Atlanta, GA, June 11-14.

W. Jothiraj, C. Miles, E. Bulka, I. Sharf and M. Nahon, 2019, “Enabling Bidirectional Thrust for Aggressive and Inverted Quadrotor Flight”, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’19), Atlanta, GA, June 11-14.

M. P. Paidoussis, A. R. Abdelbaki, M. F. Javed Butt, K. Moditis, A. K. Misra and M. Nahon, 2019, “Dynamics of a Pipe Subjected to Internal and Confined External Flow”, Proceedings of the ASME 2019 Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference (PVP2019), San Antonio, TX, July 14-19.

M. F. Javed Butt, M. P. Paidoussis and M. Nahon, 2019, “Dynamics of a Confined Pipe Aspirating Fluid: a Theoretical Investigation”, IMECE International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, November 11 – 14.

2018

J. Levin, A. Paranjape and M. Nahon, 2018, ‘Sideslip and Slipstream in Extreme Maneuvering with Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 41, No. 7, pp. 1610-1616.

M. Al-Solihat and M. Nahon, 2018, ‘Flexible Multibody Dynamic Modeling of a Floating Wind Turbine’, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 142–143, pp. 518–529.

M. Al-Solihat and M. Nahon, 2018, ‘Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Coupled Dynamic Modeling of a Tip-Loaded Rotating Cantilever’, Journal of Vibration and Control, Volume 24, No. 22, pp. 5366–5378.

E. Bulka and M. Nahon, 2018, ‘Autonomous Fixed-Wing Aerobatics: From Theory to Flight’, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2018), Brisbane, Australia, May 21-25.

R. Chiappinelli and M. Nahon, 2018, ‘Modeling and Control of a Tailsitter UAV’, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’18), Dallas, TX, June 12-15.

M. Butt, M. Paidoussis and M. Nahon, 2018, ‘An Investigation into the Dynamics of Pipes Aspirating Fluid’, Proceedings of the ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2018), Quebec City, Aug. 30-Sept. 2.

J. Levin, A. Paranjape and M. Nahon, 2018, ‘Motion Planning for a Small Aerobatic Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), Madrid, October, 1-5.

E. Bulka and M. Nahon, 2018, ‘A Universal Controller for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), Madrid, October, 1-5.

2017

E. Bulka and M. Nahon, 2017, ‘Autonomous Control of Agile Fixed-Wing UAVs Performing Aerobatic Maneuvers’, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’17), Miami, FL, June 13-16.

J. Levin, A. Paranjape and M. Nahon, 2017, ‘Agile Fixed-Wing UAV Motion Planning with Knife-Edge Maneuvers’, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’17), Miami, FL, June 13-16.

A. Battiston, I. Sharf and M. Nahon, 2017, ‘Attitude Estimation for Normal Flight and Collision Recovery of a Quadrotor UAV’, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’17), Miami, FL, June 13-16