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Citations
13760
World Ranking
1571
National Ranking
607

Overview

Timothy W. McLain is affiliated with Brigham Young University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields including Engineering and Computer Science, with notable contributions across subfields such as Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their work covers a range of topics central to robotics and navigation, including Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, Inertial Sensor and Navigation, Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications, Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks, and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems.

Timothy W. McLain has authored several papers that contribute to navigation and robotics research, particularly in GPS-denied or degraded environments. Notable recent publications include:

  • Relative multiplicative extended Kalman filter for observable GPS-denied navigation, 2020, The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • Relative navigation of autonomous GPS-degraded micro air vehicles, 2020, Autonomous Robots
  • Relative navigation of fixed-wing aircraft in GPS-denied environments, 2020, NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of Navigation
  • Cooperative Relative Navigation of Multiple Aircraft in Global Positioning System-Denied/Degraded Environments, 2020, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
  • Precision Maritime Localization and Landing with Real-time Kinematic GNSS, 2023, AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum

Their research has been disseminated through various venues, including established journals and conferences such as arXiv (Cornell University), The International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Autonomous Robots, and NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of Navigation.

Collaboration plays a notable role in Timothy W. McLain's research activities. Frequent co-authors include Brendon Forsgren, Kevin Brink, Joshua G. Mangelson, Ram Vasudevan, and Randal W. Beard, each contributing to multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Small Unmanned Aircraft

    Randal W. Beard;Timothy W. McLain

  • Small Unmanned Aircraft: Theory and Practice

    Randal W. Beard;Timothy W. McLain

  • Coordinated target assignment and intercept for unmanned air vehicles

    R.W. Beard;T.W. McLain;M.A. Goodrich;E.P. Anderson

  • Vector Field Path Following for Miniature Air Vehicles

    D.R. Nelson;D.B. Barber;T.W. McLain;R.W. Beard

  • Cooperative forest fire surveillance using a team of small unmanned air vehicles

    David W. Casbeer;Derek B. Kingston;Randal W. Beard;Timothy W. McLain

  • Decentralized Cooperative Aerial Surveillance Using Fixed-Wing Miniature UAVs

    R.W. Beard;T.W. McLain;D.B. Nelson;D. Kingston

  • Coordination Variables and Consensus Building in Multiple Vehicle Systems

    Tim McLain

  • Forest fire monitoring with multiple small UAVs

    D.W. Casbeer;R.W. Beard;T.W. McLain;Sai-Ming Li

  • Autonomous Vehicle Technologies for Small Fixed-Wing UAVs

    Randal W. Beard;Derek B. Kingston;Morgan Quigley;Deryl Snyder

  • Multiple UAV cooperative search under collision avoidance and limited range communication constraints

    R.W. Beard;T.W. McLain

  • Coordination Variables, Coordination Functions, and Cooperative-Timing Missions

    Timothy W. McLain;Randal W. Beard

  • Vision-based Target Geo-location using a Fixed-wing Miniature Air Vehicle

    D. Blake Barber;Joshua D. Redding;Timothy W. Mclain;Randal W. Beard

  • Quadrotors and Accelerometers: State Estimation with an Improved Dynamic Model

    Robert C. Leishman;John C. Macdonald;Randal W. Beard;Timothy W. McLain

  • Modeling the thermal behavior of a surface-micromachined linear-displacement thermomechanical microactuator

    Christian D. Lott;Timothy W. McLain;John N. Harb;Larry L. Howell

  • TRAJECTORY PLANNING FOR COORDINATED RENDEZVOUS OF UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES

    Timothy W. McLain;Randal W. Beard

  • Real-time dynamic trajectory smoothing for unmanned air vehicles

    E.P. Anderson;R.W. Beard;T.W. McLain

  • Implementing Dubins Airplane Paths on Fixed-wing UAVs

    Timothy McLain;Randall W. Beard;Mark Owen

  • Cooperative control of UAV rendezvous

    T.W. McLain;P.R. Chandler;S. Rasmussen;M. Pachter

  • Vector field path following for small unmanned air vehicles

    D.R. Nelson;D.B. Barber;T.W. McLain;R.W. Beard

  • Experiments in the Coordinated Control of an Underwater Arm/Vehicle System

    Timothy W. McLain;Stephen M. Rock;Michael J. Lee

  • Decentralized Cooperative Aerial Surveillance Using Fixed-Wing Miniature UAVs Teams of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) can cooperate when their common objectives are defined and each vehicle has the information needed to cooperate, even when there are communications difficulties.

    Randal W. Beard;Timothy W. McLain;Derek B. Nelson;Derek Kingston

Frequent Co-Authors

Randal W. Beard
Randal W. Beard Brigham Young University
Larry L. Howell
Larry L. Howell Brigham Young University
Michael A. Goodrich
Michael A. Goodrich Brigham Young University
Stephen M. Rock
Stephen M. Rock Stanford University
Wei Ren
Wei Ren University of California, Riverside
Fred Y. Hadaegh
Fred Y. Hadaegh Jet Propulsion Lab
Karl F. Warnick
Karl F. Warnick Brigham Young University
Jovan Boskovic
Jovan Boskovic Scientific Systems Company, Inc.
Stephen C. Jacobsen
Stephen C. Jacobsen Raytheon (United States)
Raman K. Mehra
Raman K. Mehra Scientific Systems Company, Inc.

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