Current Graduate Students

Jeff Saunders
   Degree: PhD
    Topic:  Unmanned air vehicles, path planning
    email:  neon_vomit@hotmail.com

Huili Yu
  Degree: PhD
    Topic:  Vision based guidance of UAV
    email: huiliyu.yhl@gmail.com

Liang Sun
Degree: PhD
Topic: Vision based guidance of UAVs
email: solbuaa@gmail.com

Former Post Docs

P.B. Sujit, 2006-2008
   Topic: Cooperative task assignment and path planning for UAVs
    Current coordinates:
email: sujit@byu.edu

Former PhD Students

Derek Kingston, PhD, 2007.
    Dissertation:  Decentralized Control of Multiple UAVs for Perimeter and Target Surveillance
    Current coordinates: 
       Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Vehicles Directorate, WPAFB
        derek.kingston@gmail.com

Wei Ren, PhD, 2004.
    Dissertation:  Consensus Seeking, Formation Keeping, and Trajectory Tracking in Multiple Vehicle Cooperative Control
    Current coordinates: 
       Utah State University
        wren@engineering.usu.edu

J. Will Curtis, PhD, 2002.
    Dissertation:  A Generalization of Sontag's Formula for High-Performance CLF-based Control
    Current coordinates: 
        Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate,
        Eglin Air Force Base
        (850) 882-9443 ext. 3366
        jess.curtis@eglin.af.mil

Jonathan R. Lawton, PhD, 2000.
    Dissertation:  A Behavior-based Approach for Spacecraft Formation Flying
    Current coordinates: 
        Raytheon Systems
        (520) 663-8187
        Jonathan_R_Lawton@raytheon.com

Former Masters Students

Andrew Curtis, MS, 2008
   Thesis: Path Planning for Unmanned Air and Ground Vehicles in Urban Environments
    Current Coordinates:
       MIT Lincoln Labs, Lexington, MA
byudrew@gmail.com

Joe Egbert, MS, 2008
   Thesis: Low-Altitude Road Following Using Strap-Down Cameras on Miniature Aerial Vehicles
   Current Coordinates:

Steve Osborne, MS, 2007
   Thesis:  Transition Between Hover and Level Flight for a Tailsitter UAV
    Current coordinates:
       Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson
       srosborne@gmail.com

Ryan Holt, MS, 2007
   Thesis:  Three Enabling Technologies for Vision-Based Forest-Fire Perimeter Surveillance Using Multiple Unmanned Aerial Systems
    Current coordinates:
       MIT Lincoln Labs, Lexington, MA
       holt.ryan@gmail.com

David Johanson, MS, 2006
   Thesis:  Video Stabilization and Object Localization Using Feature Tracking with Small UAV Video
    Current coordinates:
       Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson
       davejohansen@gmail.com

Joshua Matthews, MS, 2006
   Thesis:  Adaptive Control of Micro Air Vehicles
    Current coordinates:
       Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson
       josh_matthews@byu.edu

Brandon Call, MS, 2006
   Thesis: Obstacle Avoidance for Unmanned Air Vehicles Using Computer Vision
    Current coordinates:
       MIT Lincoln Labs
       brandoncall@gmail.com

Walt Johnson, MS, 2005
   Thesis:  The Kestrel Autopilot
    Current coordinates:
        Procerus Technologies
        waltj@procerusuav.com

Reed Christiansen, MS, 2004
   Thesis:  Design of an Autopilot for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
    Current coordinates:
        Procerus Technologies
        reedc@procerusuav.com

Josh Hintze, MS, 2004
   Thesis:  Autonomous Landing of a Rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in a Non-Cooperative Environment Using Machine Vision
    Current coordinates:
        Procerus Technologies
       joshh@procerusuav.com

Derek Kingston, MS, 2003
   Thesis:  Implementation Issues of Real-Time Trajectory Generation on Small UAVs
    Current coordinates:
        Graduate student at BYU
        derek_kingston@hotmail.com

Erik Anderson, MS, 2002.
    Thesis:  Extremal Control and Unmanned Air Vehicle Trajectory Generation
    Current coordinates: 
        Graduate student at Stanford University  
        eandersn@stanford.edu

Jed Kelsey, MS, 2001.
    Thesis:  The MAGICC Mobile Robot Toolbox (MMRT):  A Simulink-based Control and Coordination Toolbox for Multiple Robotic Agents
    Current coordinates: 
        Scientific Systems Corporation Inc.
        jed.m.kelsey@jpl.nasa.gov

J. Will Curtis, MS, 2000.
    Dissertation:  Nonlinear controller comparison on a benchmark system
   Current coordinates: 
        Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate,
        Eglin Air Force Base
        jess.curtis@eglin.af.mil

Brett Young, MS, 2000.
    Dissertation:  Mobile robots:  coordination and control
    Current coordinates: 
        Raytheon Systems Inc.
        Tucson, Arizona
        Brett_J_Young@raytheon.com