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  1. An Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Control Allocation Strategies for eVTOL Aircraft

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Benjamin Simmons, Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  2. Aircraft System Identification Approach for Control Surface Fault Diagnosis

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Benjamin Simmons, Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  3. Performance Analysis of Three Predictors for Mitigating Input and Output Time Delays

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, February 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  4. Input-to-State Stable Energy-Based Position Tracking Control for Atmospheric Flight Vehicles

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  5. Tutorial Review of Indirect Wind Estimation Methods Using Small Uncrewed Air Vehicles

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, August 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  6. Unsteady Aerodynamics in Model-Based Wind Estimation from Fixed-Wing Aircraft Motion

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  7. Uncertainty in Wind Estimates, Part 1: Analysis using Generalized Polynomial Chaos

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey, Jeremy Hopwood

  8. WINDMAP: Wind Intelligent Navigation Data and Models for Aviation Planning

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Brian R. Elbing, Nicoletta Fala, Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey, Adam Houston, Imraan Faruque

  9. The Invariant Extended Kalman Filter for Wind Estimation using a Small Fixed-Wing UAV in Horizontal-Plane Flight

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  10. Robust Linear Parameter-Varying Control for Safe and Effective Unstable Aircraft System Identification

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Jeremy Hopwood, Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  11. Development and Evaluation of Multirotor Flight Dynamic Models for Estimation and Control

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Jeremy Hopwood, Benjamin Simmons, Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  12. Uncertainty in Wind Estimates, Part 2: H∞ Filtering using Generalized Polynomial Chaos

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey, Jeremy Hopwood

  13. Passivity-Based Wind Estimation for Aircraft Maneuvering in Steady and Uniform Wind Fields

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey, Jeremy Hopwood

  14. Time Delay Mitigation in Aerial Telerobotic Operations Using Heterogeneous Stereo-Vision Systems

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, June 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  15. Scheduled Imaging of Multiple Threat Aircraft Using a Modified Traveling Salesman Problem

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, June 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  16. Development of a Peripheral–Central Vision System for Small Unmanned Aircraft Tracking

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, April 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  17. Cross-Track Control of Rotorcraft Using Passivity Based Techniques

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Jean-Michel Fahmi, Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  18. A Methodology to Assess the Re-purposing of Manned Aircraft Airworthiness Standards for Unmanned Aircraft

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Alejandro Salado, Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  19. Usability Studies of a Predictive Heterogeneous Vision System in Mitigating the Effects of Visual Display Delay

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey, Nazmus Sakib

  20. Effects of Two Modeling Assumptions on Wind Reconstruction from Longitudinal Aircraft Motion

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  21. Sensing Wind from Quadrotor Motion

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, April 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  22. Development of a Peripheral-Central Vision System for Small UAS Tracking

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  23. Effects of Model Simplification on Wind Reconstruction During Open-Loop Longitudinal Flight

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  24. Model-based Wind profiling in the Lower Atmosphere with Multirotor UAS

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  25. Aerodynamic Response of a NACA-0012 Airfoil Undergoing Non-Sinusoidal Pitching Waveforms

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  26. Nonlinear Model Identification Methodology for Small, Fixed-Wing, Unmanned Aircraft

    Article • Journal of Aircraft, January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey, Benjamin Simmons

  27. Workspace Modeling and Path Planning for Truss Structure Inspection by Unmanned Aircraft

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey, Arun Das

  28. Measuring Atmospheric Winds from Quadrotor Motion

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey, Nathan R Rose

  29. Small Aircraft Flight Encounters Database for UAS Sense and Avoid

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  30. Comparison of Three Approaches to Atmospheric Source Localization

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey, Dr. Hesham Rakha

  31. Time-Optimal Path Planning for a Kinematic Car with Variable Speed

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, October 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey, Eugene Cliff

  32. Fuel-/Time-Optimal Relative Trajectories for a Satellite near a Perturbed, Elliptical Orbit

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, September 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Jonathan Black, Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  33. Assessing System Safety for an Urban, Tethered UAS

    Article • June 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  34. Lift and Drag of Flapping Membrane Wings at High Angles of Attack

    Article • June 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Assistant professor Mohamed Y. Zakaria, Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  35. Geometric Control Approach to Longitudinal Stability of Flapping Flight

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, February 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  36. Energy-Optimal Paths for a Glider with Speed and Load Factor Controls

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, February 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey, Eugene Cliff

  37. Implementation of Flexible Matrix Composite Actuators into the eSPAARO Unmanned Air Vehicle

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  38. A Combined Geometric-Control-Averaging to Optimum Trim of Hovering FWMAVs and Insects

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  39. Feasible Dubins Paths in Presence of Unknown, Unsteady Velocity Disturbances

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, April 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  40. Source Localization For A Turbulent Plume Model Using Bayesian Occupancy Grid Mapping

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  41. Flight Testing of a Subscale Aeroservoelastic Aircraft

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  42. UAS Source Localization with High Latency Sensors in Turbulent Environments

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey

  43. Longitudinal flight control of flapping wing micro air vehicles

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Craig Woolsey A Woolsey