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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
43
Citations
6853
World Ranking
3930
National Ranking
1412

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

I. Michael Ross is affiliated with the Naval Postgraduate School in the United States. Their research encompasses fields such as Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, with a total of 39 publications spread primarily across these disciplines. The main subfields of study addressed by Ross include Aerospace Engineering, Numerical Analysis, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Control and Systems Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's primary research topics cover Spacecraft Dynamics and Control, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research, Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots, Numerical Methods for Differential Equations, Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques, and Astro and Planetary Science.

Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, IEEE Control Systems, and Applied Mathematics and Computation. Ross has contributed multiple papers to these journals and repositories.

Frequent co-authors working alongside I. Michael Ross include Ronald J. Proulx, Mark Karpenko, Julie K. Halverson, Yohannes Tedla, and Travis Lippman.

Notable recent papers authored by I. Michael Ross are:

  • Enhancements to the DIDO Optimal Control Toolbox, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Generating Nesterov's accelerated gradient algorithm by using optimal control theory for optimization, 2022, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • An Optimal Control Theory for the Traveling Salesman Problem and Its Variants, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Fast Attitude Maneuvers for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: Practical Flight Application of Attitude Guidance using Birkhoff Pseudospectral Theory and Hamiltonian Programming, 2024, IEEE Control Systems
  • A universal Birkhoff pseudospectral method for solving boundary value problems, 2023, Applied Mathematics and Computation

Ross is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a position held since 1982.

Best Publications

  • A review of pseudospectral optimal control: From theory to flight

    I. Michael Ross;Mark Karpenko

  • Pseudospectral Knotting Methods for Solving Nonsmooth Optimal Control Problems

    I. Michael Ross;Fariba Fahroo

  • Legendre pseudospectral approximations of optimal control problems

    I. Michael Ross;Fariba Fahroo

  • A pseudospectral method for the optimal control of constrained feedback linearizable systems

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  • Spectral Algorithm for Pseudospectral Methods in Optimal Control

    Qi Gong;Fariba Fahroo;I. Michael Ross

  • Pseudospectral Methods for Infinite-Horizon Optimal Control Problems

    Fariba Fahroo;I. Michael Ross

  • Connections between the covector mapping theorem and convergence of pseudospectral methods for optimal control

    Qi Gong;I. Michael Ross;Wei Kang;Fariba Fahroo

  • Advances in Pseudospectral Methods for Optimal Control

    Fariba Fahroo;I. Michael Ross

  • Rapid Verification Method for the Trajectory Optimization of Reentry Vehicles

    Scott Josselyn;I. Michael Ross

  • Issues in the real-time computation of optimal control

    I. Michael Ross;Fariba Fahroo

  • Hybrid Optimal Control Framework for Mission Planning

    I. Michael Ross;Christopher N. D'Souza

  • Optimal Feedback Control: Foundations, Examples, and Experimental Results for a New Approach

    I. M. Ross;Pooya Sekhavat;Andrew Fleming;Qi Gong

  • Pseudospectral methods for optimal motion planning of differentially flat systems

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  • Optimal Nonlinear Feedback Guidance for Reentry Vehicles

    Kevin P. Bollino;I. Michael Ross;David D. Doman

  • Linearized Dynamic Equations for Spacecraft Subject to J Perturbations

    I. Michael Ross

  • Low-Thrust, High-Accuracy Trajectory Optimization

    I. Michael Ross;Qi Gong;Pooya Sekhavat

  • Real-Time Computation of Neighboring Optimal Control Laws

    I. Michael Ross;Fariba Fahroo;Hui Yan

  • 6 – Space Trajectory Optimization and L1-Optimal Control Problems

    I. Michael Ross

  • Towards Real-Time Computation of Optimal Controls for Nonlinear Systems

    I. Michael Ross;Fariba Fahroo;John Strizzi

  • Pseudospectral Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles

    Qi Gong;L. R. Lewis;I. Michael Ross

  • Pseudospectral Feedback Control for Three-Axis Magnetic Attitude Stabilization in Elliptic Orbits

    Hui Yan;I. Michael Ross;Kyle T. Alfriend

  • A roadmap for optimal control: the right way to commute.

    I Michael Ross

  • Direct Trajectory Optimization by a Chebyshev Pseudospectral Method ; Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, v. 25, 2002 ; pp. 160-166

    Fahroo Fahroo;I. Michael Ross

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Fleming
Andrew J. Fleming University of Newcastle Australia
David B. Doman
David B. Doman United States Air Force Research Laboratory

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