JONATHAN P. HOW
Richard Cockburn Maclaurin
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Aerospace
Controls Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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JONATHAN P. HOW
Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics jhow@mit.edu
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Threat Assessment Design for Driver Assistance
System at Intersections
| Battery change/recharge station to enable
persistent
autonomous quadrotor flight
| Variable Pitch Quadrotor designed for agile/inverted flight
(hi-res) |
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Planning and Control for Team MIT - DARPA Grand (Urban) Challenge Team | |
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My research group and some papers available to download | |
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Multi-Vehicle Health Management (Project) | |
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Consensus-Based Bundle Algorithm (CBBA) (Project) | |
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Robust Planning and Control for Agile Robotics for Logistics (Project) | |
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Modeling Synergies in Large Human-Machine Networked Systems (Project) | |
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Activity planning and trajectory design for cooperating vehicles (UAVs and robots) | |
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Vision-based navigation for GPS-denied flight (movie) | |
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Decentralized activity planning for Cooperating UAV's (AFOSR) | |
Multi-UAV testbeds - Indoors using autonomous quadrotors (RAVEN) and external UAVs |
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Mixed-integer Linear Programming for Multi-Vehicle Control (MILP) | |
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Autonomous aircraft agile flight and aerobatics | |
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Spacecraft navigation, control, and autonomy | |
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Orion Formation Flying Microsatellite Experiment (NASA GSFC) | |
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Relative Navigation for Formation Flying Spacecraft using GPS (NASA GSFC) | |
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Autonomous Formation Flying Spacecraft (CETDP) see New scientist and GPSworld | |
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Some early research areas: | |
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Magnetic Indoor Absolute Positioning System | |
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Robust and hybrid control (papers) | |
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control of flexible structures (papers) | |
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Robust and hybrid control (papers) possible using GPS (article) | |
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Feedback Control Systems (2007 OCW) and (2010 On Stellar) |
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Stochastic Estimation & Control (2009 On Stellar) |
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Principles of Optimal Control (2008 OCW) and (2009 On Stellar) |
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Aircraft Stability & Control (OCW) |
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Aerospace Dynamics (OCW) |
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Professor, MIT Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics, |
| 4/00 - 7/06
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Associate Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, (tenured 2003) |
| 4/00 - 12/02
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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. |
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Design, implementation, and analysis of robust controllers for the Middeck Active Control Experiment (MACE) flown on STS-67 March 2-16, 1995 |
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Litton Systems of Canada Ltd., Toronto (1987) |
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Boeing Aircraft, Dehavilland Division, Toronto, Canada (1986) |
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Atlantis Flight Research, Woodbridge, Canada (1985) |
| 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. |
