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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Sean Quinn Marlow and Jack W. Langelaan: "Local Terrain Mapping for Obstacle Avoidance using Monocular Vision," Accepted to Journal of the American Helicopter Society.

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

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

Dissertation and Thesis

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