Refereed Journal Publications
Please contact me for re-prints of journal publications.Jack W. Langelaan: "Gust Energy Extraction for Mini- and Micro- Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles", accepted for publication, Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics
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
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