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  1. Hybrid Attitude Control for Nano-Spacecraft: Reaction Wheel Failure and Singularity Handling

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

    Dr James D Biggs, Dmitry Pritykin, Ahmed Mahfouz

  2. Closed-Loop, Exact-Time, Minimum-Energy Attitude Control with Analytic Gain Selection

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

    Dr James D Biggs

  3. Control of a Thrust-Vectoring CubeSat Using a Single Variable-Speed Control Moment Gyroscope

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

    Dr James D Biggs

  4. Neural-Network-Based Optimal Attitude Control Using Four Impulsive Thrusters

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

    Dr James D Biggs

  5. Orbit-Attitude Control in a Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem Using Distributed Reflectivity Devices

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

    Dr James D Biggs

  6. Adaptive Attitude Tracking with Active Uncertainty Rejection

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, February 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr James D Biggs

  7. Near Time-Minimal Earth to L1 Transfers for Low-Thrust Spacecraft

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, November 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr James D Biggs, Helen Henninger

  8. Fault-Tolerant Station-Keeping on Libration Point Orbits

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, October 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr James D Biggs, AMAN NARULA

  9. Attitude guidance and tracking for spacecraft with two reaction wheels

    Article • International Journal of Control, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr James D Biggs

  10. Identification of new orbits to enable future mission opportunities for the human exploration of the Martian moon Phobos

    Article • Acta Astronautica, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr James D Biggs

  11. Natural motion around the Martian moon Phobos: the dynamical substitutes of the Libration Point Orbits in an elliptic three-body problem with gravity harmonics

    Article • Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr James D Biggs

  12. Planning natural repointing manoeuvres for nano-spacecraft

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, July 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr James D Biggs

  13. Design of an Attitude Stabilization Electromagnetic module for detumbling uncooperative targets

    Article • March 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr James D Biggs

  14. Dynamical systems techniques for designing libration point orbits in proximity of highly-inhomogeneous planetary satellites: Application to the Mars-Phobos elliptic three-body problem with additional gravity harmonics

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Dr James D Biggs

  15. Analytical method for perturbed frozen orbit around an asteroid in highly inhomogeneous gravitational fields: a first approach

    Article • Solar System Research, January 2014, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr James D Biggs

  16. Heteroclinic optimal control solutions for attitude motion planning

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr James D Biggs

  17. Optimal Attitude Motion Planner for Large Slew Maneuvers Using a Shape-Based Method

    Article • August 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr James D Biggs

  18. Analytic perturbative theories in highly inhomogeneous gravitational fields

    Article • Icarus, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr James D Biggs

  19. Design of optimal earth pole-sitter transfers using low-thrust propulsion

    Article • Acta Astronautica, October 2012, Elsevier

    Dr James D Biggs

  20. Optimal geometric motion planning for a spin-stabilized spacecraft

    Article • Systems & Control Letters, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr James D Biggs

  21. Displaced geostationary orbits using hybrid low-thrust propulsion

    Article • Acta Astronautica, February 2012, Elsevier

    Dr James D Biggs

  22. Low-thrust propulsion in a coplanar circular restricted four body problem

    Article • Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr James D Biggs

  23. Time-delayed autosynchronous swarm control

    Article • Physical Review E, January 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr James D Biggs

  24. Low-Thrust-Enabled Highly-Non-Keplerian Orbits in Support of Future Mars Exploration

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, September 2011, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr James D Biggs, Dr Massimiliano L Vasile

  25. Survey of Highly Non-Keplerian Orbits with Low-Thrust Propulsion

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2011, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr James D Biggs

  26. Singularities of optimal attitude motions

    Article • January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr James D Biggs

  27. Time-Delayed Feedback Control in Astrodynamics

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, November 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr James D Biggs

  28. Optimal Kinematic Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, July 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr James D Biggs

  29. Solar Sail Formation Flying for Deep-Space Remote Sensing

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, May 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr James D Biggs

  30. Control of Solar Sail Periodic Orbits in the Elliptic Three-Body Problem

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, January 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr James D Biggs

  31. An optimal gains matrix for time-delay feedback control

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr James D Biggs

  32. Singularities of Optimal Control Problems on Some 6-D Lie Groups

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, June 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr James D Biggs