2023

H. Song, A. Petraki, B.J. DeHart, and I. Sharf, "Chance-Constrained Rollover-Free Manipulation Planning With Uncertain Payload,'' IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, pp. 1-11, 2023.

H. Song, and I. Sharf, "Chance-Constrained Planning for Dynamically Stable Motion of Reconfigurable Vehicles,'' IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp. 1-13, 2023.

C. Mass茅, I. Sharf and F. Deleflie, "Exploitation of STRP and J2 perturbations for deorbitation of spacecraft through attitude control,'' Acta Astronautica, Vol. 203, pp. 551 - 567, 2023.

E. Ayoub, P. Levesque, and I. Sharf, "Grasp Planning with CNN for Log-loading Forestry Machine," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA2023, London, UK, May 29-June 2, pp. 11802鈥�11808, 2023.

I. Jebellat and I. Sharf, "Trajectory Generation with Dynamic Programming for End-Effector Sway Damping of Forestry Machine," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA2023, London, UK, May 29-June 2, pp. 8134鈥�8140, 2023.

M. Nahon, Z. Zhuo, S. Yang, I. Sharf, R. Cavallaro and S. Morris, "Modeling of a Wind-Turbine-Powered Ground Vehicle," AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, AIAA Wind Energy Conference, National Harbor, MD, January 23-27, 2023.

M. Nahon, Z. Zhuo, S. Yang, I. Sharf, R. Cavallaro and S. Morris, "Modeling of the Blackbird Wind-Powered Ground Vehicle," AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, National Harbor, MD, January 23-27, 2023.

M. Kurnell and I. Sharf, 鈥淟inear Model Predictive Control of a CubeSat Servicer for On-Orbit Servicing,鈥� presented at 37th Small Satellite Conference, August 5-10, Logan, Utah, 2023.

2022

Jad Wehbeh and Inna Sharf. 鈥淕eometric MPC Techniques for Reduced Attitude Control on Quadrotors with Bidirectional Thrust鈥�. In: 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 2022, pp. 12330鈥�12335.

Jiazhi Song and Inna Sharf. 鈥淐ollision and Rollover-Free g 2 Path Planning for Mobile Manipulation鈥�. In: 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 2022, pp. 10275鈥�10282.

Jiazhi Song and Inna Sharf. 鈥淪tability constrained mobile manipulation planning on rough terrain鈥�. In: Robotica 40.11 (2022), pp. 4090鈥�4119.

JadWehbeh and Inna Sharf. 鈥淎n MPC Formulation on SO(3) for a Quadrotor With Bidirectional Thrust and Nonlinear Thrust Constraints鈥�. In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7.2 (2022), pp. 4945鈥�4952.

Jiazhi Song and Inna Sharf. 鈥淩ollover-Free Trajectory Planning for Reconfigurable Vehicles Under Terrain Uncertainty鈥�. In: 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). 2022, pp. 4088鈥�4094.

Catherine Mass茅, Inna Sharf, and Florent Deleflie. 鈥淓cho I case study of SRP effect on orbital motion鈥�. In: Proceedings of the 73rd International Astronautical Congress. Sept. 2022.

Catherine Mass茅 and Inna Sharf. 鈥淓xploitation of Thermal Radiation Resonance for Deorbitation of Spacecraft Through Attitude Control鈥�. In: Proceedings of the 73rd International Astronautical Congress. Sept. 2022.

M. Kurnell and I. Sharf. 鈥淢odel Predictive Impedance Control for Orbital Replacement Unit Installation by a CubeSat Servicer鈥�. In: Proceedings of the 73rd International Astronautical Congress. Sept. 2022.

Eitan Bulka et al. 鈥淓xperiments on Collaborative Transport of Cable-suspended Payload with Quadrotor UAVs鈥�. In: 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). IEEE. 2022, pp. 1465鈥�1473.

Ehsan Yousefi, Dylan P Losey, and Inna Sharf. 鈥淎ssisting Operators of Articulated Machinery with Optimal Planning and Goal Inference鈥�. In: 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 2022, pp. 2832鈥�2838.

2021

M.K. Jorgensen and I. Sharf. 鈥淓ffect of Release Conditions on Casualty Risk Factor in Uncontrolled Re-entry of Large Space Debris,鈥� Advances in Space Research, Vol. 68, pp. 25-42, 2021.

Y. Hu, I. Sharf, and L. Chen. 鈥淒istributed Orbit Determination and Observability Analysis for Satellite Constellations with Angles-Only Measurements,鈥� Automatica, Vol. 129, 2021.

C. Masse, I. Sharf, and F. Deleflie. 鈥淪RP-J2 resonances in low Earth orbits for objects with a time-variant area-to-mass ratio,鈥� Proceedings of the 31st AAS/ AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, AAS 21-375, virtual, January 2021.

A. Safaei and I. Sharf, 鈥淰elocity estimation for UAVs using ultra wide-band system,鈥� 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2021, pp. 202鈥�209, virtual, 2021.

F. El Tin, C. Patience, A. Borowczyk, M. Nahon, and I. Sharf, 鈥淓xploitation of Thermals in Powered and Unpowered Flight of Autonomous Gliders,鈥� 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2021, pp. 1089鈥�1095, virtual, 2021.

A. Maalouly, I. Sharf, and I. Mantegh. 鈥淕eometrically Based Collision Avoidance for Quadrotors under Short Sensing Distance Conditions,鈥� 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2021, pp. 1096鈥�1105, virtual, 2021.

A. Safaei and I. Sharf. 鈥淎daptive model-free formation-tracking controller and observer for collaborative payload transport by four drones,鈥� 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), pp. 55-62, New York City, October 25-27, 2021.

C. Masse, I. Sharf, and F. Deleflie. 鈥淓xploitation of SRP-J2-phi Resonances for De-orbitation of Space Objects with Time-Variant Area-to-Mass Ratio,鈥� Proceedings of the 72th International Astronautical Congress, IAC鈥�21鈥揅1.7.6, Dubai, October 23-26, 2021.

2020

Botta, E.M., C. Miles and I. Sharf, "Simulation and tension control of a tether-actuated closing mechanism for net-based capture of space,'' Acta Astronautica, Vol. 174, pp. 347-358, 2020.

Jorgensen, M.K. and I. Sharf, "Optimal planning for a multiple space debris removal mission using high-accuracy low-thrust transfers,'' Acta Astronautica, Vol. 172, pp. 56-69, 2020.

Hu, Y., Sharf, I. and L. Chen, "Three-spacecraft autonomous orbit determination and observability analysis with inertial angles-only measurements,'' Acta Astronautica, Vol. 170, pp. 106-121, 2020.

Sagni猫res, L.B.M., Sharf, I. and F. Deleflie, "Simulation of long-term rotational dynamics of large space debris: A TOPEX/Poseidon case study," Advances in Space Research, Vol. 65(4), pp. 1182-1195, 2020.

Eskandarpour, A. and I. Sharf, "A constrained error-based MPC for path following of quadrotor with stability analysis,'' Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 99(2), pp. 899-918, 2020

Wehbeh, J., Rahman, S. and Sharf, I., "Distributed model predictive control for UAVs collaborative payload transport," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2020, Virtual, Oct. 25-Nov. 25, 2020.

Rezaei-Shoshtari, S., Meger, D. and Sharf, I., "Learning the latent space of robot dynamics for cutting interaction inference," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2020, Virtual, Oct. 25-Nov. 25, 2020.

Tin, F.E., Borowczyk, A., Sharf, I. and M. Nahon, "Turn Decision-Making for Improved Autonomous Thermalling of Unmanned Aerial Gliders," 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2020, Virtual, Sept. 1-4, 9213839, pp. 1368-1375, 2020.

Jothiraj, W., Sharf, I., Nahon, M., "Control allocation of bidirectional thrust quadrotor subject to actuator constraints," 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2020, Virtual, Sept. 1-4, 8798234, pp. 932-938, 2020.

H. Song and I. Sharf, "Time Optimal Motion Planning with ZMP Stability Constraint for Timber Manipulation," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA2020, Virtual, May 31-Aug. 31, pp. 4934-4940, 2020.

Tin, F.E., Sharf, I. and M. Nahon, "Guidance of unmanned aerial gliders for wildfire surveillance," 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, Orlando, Jan. 6-10, Vol. 1 PartF, 2020.

2019

Battiston, A., Sharf, I., Nahon, M. (2019). 鈥淎ttitude estimation for collision recovery of a quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle鈥�, International Journal of Robotics Research, 38(10-11), pp. 1286-1306.

C. Miles, E. Botta, and I. Sharf, (2019). 鈥淪imulation and Tension Control of a Tether-Actuated Closing Mechanism for Net-Based Capture of Space Debris,鈥� 70th International Astronautical Congress, Washington DC, Oct. 21-25.

Jothiraj, W., Miles, C., Bulka, E., Sharf, I., Nahon, M. (2019). 鈥淓nabling bidirectional thrust for aggressive and inverted quadrotor flight鈥�, 2019 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2019, Atlanta, June 11-14, 8798234, pp. 534-541.

Jorgensen, M. and Sharf, I. (2019). 鈥淥ptimal Drift Orbit Planning for a Multiple Space Debris Removal Mission using High-Accuracy Low-Thrust Transfers鈥�. In 2019 First International Orbital Debris Conference, Sugar Land, Texas, December 9鈥�12.

2018

St-Onge D, Sharf I, Sagni猫res LBM, Gosselin C. (2018). A Deployable Mechanism Concept for the Collection of Small-to-Medium-Size Space Debris. Advances in Space Research. 61: 1286-1297.

Botta EM, Sharf I, Misra AK. (2018). Simulation of Tether-Nets for Capture of Space Debris and Small Asteroids. Acta Astronautica.

Sagni猫res LBM, Sharf I. (2018). Long-term rotational motion analysis and comparison to observations of the inoperative Envisat. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. : 1-13.

Sagni猫res, LBM, Sharf, I., Deleflie, F. (2018). Investigation into the rotational dynamics of the defunct spacecraft TOPEX/Poseidon. 21st International Workshop on Laser Ranging, Canberra.

Dicker G, Sharf I, Rustagi, P. (2018). Recovery Control for Quadrotor UAV Colliding with a Pole. Proceedings of. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Madrid, Spain (1-8)

Sagni猫res, LBM, Sharf, I., Deleflie, F. (2018). Validation of a novel coupled orbit-attitude propagator by comparison to SLR data and light curves. Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC. 69th International Astronautical Congress, Bremen, Germany

Jorgensen M, Sharf I. (2018). Planning and optimization for a multiple space debris removal mission. 2018. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, United States (1-10)

2017

Botta, E.M., I. Sharf and A.K. Misra, "Energy and Momentum Analysis of the Deployment Dynamics of Nets in Space,鈥� Acta Astronautica, Vol. 140, pp. 554-564, 2017.

Sharf, I., Thomsen, B., Botta, E.M., and A.K. Misra, "Experiments and Simulation of a Net Closing Mechanism for Tether-net Capture of Space Debris,鈥� Acta Astronautica, Vol. 139, pp. 332-343, 2017.

Sagni猫res, L.B.M. and I. Sharf, "Stochastic modeling of hypervelocity impacts in attitude propagation of space debris,鈥� Advances in Space Research, Vol. 59, pp. 1128-1143, 2017.

St-Onge, D., P.-Y. Breches, I. Sharf, N. Reeves, I. Rekleitis, P. Abouzakhm, Y. Girdhar, A. Harmat, G. Dudek and P. Giguere. "Control, Localization and Human Interaction with an Autonomous Lighter-than-air Performer,鈥� Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 88, pp. 165-186, 2017.

Botta, E.M., I. Sharf, and A.K. Misra. "Contact Dynamics Modeling and Simulation of Tether Nets for Space-Debris Capture,鈥� AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 110-123, 2017.

Botta, E.M., I. Sharf and A.K. Misra, "Simulation of Tether-Nets for Capture of Space Debris and Small Asteroids," 1st IAA Conference on Space Situational Awareness (ICSSA), Orlando, FL, November 2017.

Battiston, A., I. Sharf and M. Nahon, "Attitude estimation for normal flight and collision recovery of a quadrotor UAV," 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS, pp. 840-849, Miami, US, June 13-16, 2017.

Dicker, G., F. Chui and I. Sharf, "Quadrotor Collision Characterization and Recovery Control," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA2017, Singapore, May 29-June 3, 2017.

Sagni猫res, L.B.M. and I. Sharf, "Uncertainty Characterization of Atmospheric Density Models for Orbit Prediction of Space Debris,"7th European Conference on Space Debris, ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, April 2017.

Sagni猫res, L.B.M. and I. Sharf, "Evolution of Spacecraft Orbital Motion due to Hypervelocity Impacts from Debris and Meteoroids," 7th European Conference on Space Debris, ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, April 2017.

Botta, E.M., I. Sharf, A.K. Misra. "Tether-nets for active space debris removal: Effect of the tether on deployment and capture dynamics," 27th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, San Antonio, US, February 2017. pp. 2003-2016.