Invited Publications

Jack W. Langelaan and Nicholas Roy, "Enabling New Missions for Small Robotic Aircraft," Science, vol. 326, no. 5960, December 18, 2009, pp. 1642-1644, DOI 10.1126/science.1182497 [Summary] [Full Text]

Refereed Journal Publications

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Tine Tomazic, Vid Plevnik, Gregor Veble, Jure Tomazic, Franc Popit, Saso Kolar, Radivoj Kikelj, Jacob W. Langelaan, and Kirk Miles, "Pipistrel Taurus G4: on Creation and Evolution of teh Winning Aeroplane of NASA Green Flight Challenge 2011," Strojniski vestnik- Journal of Mechanical Engineering, vol. 57, no. 12, pp 869-878.

Anjan Chakrabarty and Jack W. Langelaan, "Energy-based Long-Range Path Planning for Soaring-capable UAVs," Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 34, no. 4, July-August 2011, pp 1002-1015.

Jack W. Langelaan, Nicholas J. Alley, and James Neidhoefer, "Wind Field Estimation for Mini- and Micro-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 34, no. 4, July-August 2011, pp 1016-1030.

Jack W. Langelaan, "A Gust Soaring Controller for Small Gliders," Journal of Technical Soaring, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011.

Sean Quinn Marlow and Jack W. Langelaan: "Local Terrain Mapping for Obstacle Avoidance using Monocular Vision," Journal of the American Helicopter Society, vol. 56, no. 2, April 2011.

Jeffrey B. Corbets and Jack W. Langelaan: "Real-time Trajectory Generation for Target Localization using Micro Air Vehicles," Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and and Communications, vol. 7, August 2010, pp 223-240.

Jack W. Langelaan: "Gust Energy Extraction for Mini- and Micro- Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles", Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 32, no. 2, March-April 2009 pp. 464-473

Jack W. Langelaan: "State Estimation for Autonomous Flight in Cluttered Environments," Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 30, no. 5, 2007

Jack Langelaan, ed.: "Special Issue on Aircraft Design and Development," Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal, vol. 46, no. 2 June 2000

J. W. Langelaan and E. Livne: "Analytic Sensitivities and Design Oriented Structural Analysis for Airplane Fuselage Shape Synthesis," Computers and Structures, Vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 505-519, 1997

Refereed Conference Publications

Thanan Yomchinda, Joseph F. Horn and Jack W. Langelaan, "Flight Path Planning for Descent-phase Helicopter Autorotation," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, August 7-11 2011

Nathan T. Depenbusch and Jack W. Langelaan, "Coordinated Mapping and Exploration for Autonomous Soaring," AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, March 29-31 2011.

Anjan Chakrabarty and Jack W. Langelaan, "Flight Path Planning for UAV Atmospheric Energy Harvesting using Heuristic Search," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Controls Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2010. [PDF]

Nathan T. Depenbusch and Jack W. Langelaan, "Receding Horizon Control for Atmospheric Energy Harvesting by Small UAVs," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Controls Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2010. [PDF]

Jack W. Langelaan, Nicholas Alley and James Neidhoefer, "Wind Field Estimation for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Controls Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2010. [PDF]

Shane Tierney and Jack W. Langelaan, "Autorotation Path Planning using Backwards Reachable Sets and Optimal Control," Proceedings of the 66th American Helicopter Society Annual Forum, Phoenix, Arizona, May 2010. [PDF]

Anjan Chakrabarty and Jack W. Langelaan, "Energy Maps for Long-range Path Planning for Small and Micro UAVs," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Controls Conference, Chicago, Illinois, August 2009. [PDF]

Sean Quinn Marlow and Jack W. Langelaan: "Local Terrain Mapping for Obstacle Avoidance using Monocular Vision," AHS Specialist's Symposium on Unmaned Systems, Scottsdale, Arizona, January 2009. [PDF]

Sana Sarfraz and Jack W. Langelaan: "Autonomous Ground-Based Tracking of Migrating Raptors using Vision," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Controls Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, August, 2008. [PDF]

Jack W. Langelaan: "Biologically Inspired Flight Techniques for Small and Micro Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Controls Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, August, 2008. [PDF]

Jeffrey B. Corbets and Jack W. Langelaan: "Parameterized Trajectories for Target Localization using Small and Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington, June 2008. [PDF]

Jack W. Langelaan: "Tree Based Trajectory Planning to Exploit Atmospheric Energy," American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington, June 2008. [PDF]

Jack W. Langelaan and Goetz Bramesfeld: "Gust Energy Extraction for Mini- and Micro- Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles," 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Nevada 2008. [PDF]

Eric W. Frew, Jack W. Langelaan and Maciej Stachura: "Adaptive Planning Horizon Based on Information Velocity for Vision-Based Navigation," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Controls Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, August 2007. [PDF]

Jack W. Langelaan: "Long Distance/Duration Trajectory Optimization for Small UAVs," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Controls Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, August 2007. [PDF]

Jeffrey B. Corbets and Jack W. Langelaan: "Parameterized Optimal Trajectory Generation for Target Localization," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Controls Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, August 2007. [PDF]

Eric W. Frew, Jack Langelaan, Sungmoon Joo: "Adaptive Receding Horizon Control for Vision-Based Navigation of Small Unmanned Aircraft," American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2006. [PDF]

Jack Langelaan and Steve Rock: "Towards Autonomous UAV Flight in Forests," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, San Francisco, California, 2005. [PDF]

Jack Langelaan and Steve Rock: "Passive GPS-Free Navigation for Small UAVs," IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana 2005. [PDF]

Jack Langelaan and Steve Rock: "Navigation of Small UAVs Operating in Forests," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, 2004. [PDF]

Jack W. Langelaan and Leo J. J. Kok: "Damage Tolerance Modelling of Fibre/Metal Laminate Fuselage Structures," AIAA Paper 97-1400, 38th Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Kissimmee, Florida, 1997

Dissertations and Theses

Nathan T. Depenbusch: Atmospheric Energy Harvesting for Small Uninhabited Aircraft by Gust Soaring, M.S. Thesis, Aerospace Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, 2011. [PDF].

Shane Tierney: Autorotation Path Planning using Backwards Reachable Sets and Optimal Control, M.S. Thesis, Aerospace Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, 2010. [PDF].

Anjan Chakrabarty: Flight Path Planning of UAV Based on Atmospheric Energy Harvesting, M.S. Thesis, Aerospace Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, 2010. [PDF].

Sean Quinn Marlow: Local Terrain Mapping for Obstacle Avoidance using Monocular Vision, M.S. Thesis, Aerospace Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, 2009. [PDF].

Sana Sarfraz: Stereo Vision for Autonomous Ground-Based Tracking of Migrating Raptors, M.S. Thesis, Aerospace Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, 2008. [PDF].

Jeffrey B. Corbets: Real-Time Trajectory Generation for Target Localization using Micro Air Vehicles, M.S. Thesis, Aerospace Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, 2008. [PDF].

Jacob Willem Langelaan: State Estimation for Autonomous Flight in Cluttered Environments, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 2006. [double-sided PDF] [single-sided PDF]

Jacob Willem Langelaan: Design Oriented Structural Analysis for Shape Optimization of Isotropic and Composite Fuselage Structures, MS Thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1994