JONATHAN P. HOW

Professor

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Aerospace Controls Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

jhow@mit.edu

Building 33, Room 326 Map
MIT, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA 02139
Phone: 617-253-3267
Fax: 617-253-7397

For administrative assistance, please contact Kathryn Fischer at (617) 253-6270


Ten (10) Autonomous Quadrotors (hi-res)	RAVEN article	Autonomous vertical and transition flight

Research Interests: Navigation and Control

	Planning and Control for Team MIT - DARPA Grand (Urban) Challenge Team
	My research group and some papers available to download
	Activity planning and trajectory design for cooperating vehicles (UAVs and robots)
		Vision-based navigation for GPS-denied flight (movie)
		Decentralized activity planning for Cooperating UAV's (AFOSR)
		Multi-UAV testbeds - Indoors using autonomous quadrotors (RAVEN) and external UAVs
		Mixed-integer Linear Programming for Multi-Vehicle Control (MILP)
		Autonomous aircraft agile flight and aerobatics
	Spacecraft navigation, control, and autonomy
		Orion Formation Flying Microsatellite Experiment (NASA GSFC)
		Relative Navigation for Formation Flying Spacecraft using GPS (NASA GSFC)
		Autonomous Formation Flying Spacecraft (CETDP) see New scientist and GPSworld
	Magnetic Indoor Absolute Positioning System
	Robust and hybrid control, control of flexible structures using GPS (article)

Recent Classes

	Principles of Optimal Control (OCW)
	Aircraft Stability & Control (OCW)
	Feedback Control Systems (OCW)
	Aerospace Dynamics (OCW)

Background

7/06 -	Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
4/00 - 7/06	Associate Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, (tenured 2003)
4/00 - 12/02	Consulting Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
9/94 - 3/00	Assistant Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University , in the Aerospace Robotics Laboratory
1/93 - 9/94	Postdoctoral Associate, Space Engineering Research Center Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
2/90 - 1/93	Ph.D., Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT Robust Control Design with Real Parameter Uncertainty using Absolute Stability Theory
9/87 - 2/90	S.M., Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT Local Control Design Methodologies for a Hierarchic Control Architecture.
9/83 - 6/87	B.A.Sc., Engineering Science (Aerospace), University of Toronto.

Interesting Links

	Linear Programming Frequently Asked Questions
	Integer Programming Software and a Tutorial on Integer Programming
	Control Systems Engineering: Worldwide

Other Interesting Jobs

	Design, implementation, and analysis of robust controllers for the Middeck Active Control Experiment (MACE) flown on STS-67 March 2-16, 1995
	Litton Systems of Canada Ltd., Toronto (1987)
	Boeing Aircraft, Dehavilland Division, Toronto, Canada (1986)
	Atlantis Flight Research, Woodbridge, Canada (1985)

Selected Honours

2006	Raymond L. Bisplinghoff Fellow for MIT Aero/Astro Department
2003	Institute of Navigation Burka Award to recognize outstanding achievement in the preparation of papers contributing to the advancement of navigation and space guidance.
2000-2002	Boeing Associate Professor
1997-1999	Charles Lee Powell Faculty Scholar
1995	NASA Certificate of Appreciation for MACE on STS-67
1994-1997	Davis Faculty Scholar in the School of Engineering, Stanford University
1987-1991	The 1967 Science and Engineering Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.