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JONATHAN P. HOW
Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
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Decentralized Planning using Macro-actions: Dec-POSMDP Hardware Experiments
| Chance Constrained RRT - exploring solution using overhead projector system
| Variable Pitch Quadrotor designed for agile/inverted flight
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Tutorial on quadrotor flight control - video made for MIT, now used by Kahn Academy |
Controlling Self Driving Cars - tutorial on PID control
| Battery change/recharge station enabling
persistent autonomous quadrotor flight
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| Current Research Projects | |
| Google Scholar page | |
| Papers Available for Download | |
| My Research Group |
| 7/09 -
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Richard C. Maclaurin Professor MIT Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics | |
| 7/07 - 6/09
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Professor, MIT Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics | |
| 4/00 - 7/07
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Associate Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (tenured 2003) | |
| 4/00 - 12/02
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Consulting Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University | |
| 9/94 - 3/00 |
Assistant Professor, Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, in the Aerospace Robotics Laboratory |
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| 1/93 - 9/94 |
Postdoctoral Associate, Space Engineering
Research Center Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT |
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Ph.D., Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
MIT Robust Control Design with Real Parameter Uncertainty using Absolute Stability Theory |
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S.M., Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT Local Control Design Methodologies for a Hierarchic Control Architecture. |
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B.A.Sc., Engineering Science (Aerospace), University of Toronto. |
| Feedback Control Systems (2010 On Stellar) | |
| Stochastic Estimation & Control (2009 On Stellar) | |
| Principles of Optimal Control (2008 OCW) and (2009 On Stellar) | |
| Aircraft Stability & Control (OCW) | |
| Aerospace Dynamics (OCW) |
| 2021 | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) | |
| 2018 | Elevated to IEEE Fellow | |
| 2016 | Elevated to AIAA Fellow | |
| 2020 | IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award | |
| 2022 | Inducted into the University of Toronto Engineering Hall of Distinction | |
| 2022 | Honorable mention (top 5) for the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award | |
| 2022 | Editors Top 5 Selections for articles published in IEEE Access in 2021 | |
| 2022 | Selected to present AIAA Scitech Intelligent Autonomy Keynote | |
| 2020 | Amazon ML Research Award | |
| 2020 | Selected to present AIAA SciTech Guidance, Navigation, and Control Keynote | |
| 2020 | Honorable Mention for paper award in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | |
| 2020 | Selected to present the semi-plenary at the 59th IEEE CDC | |
| 2020 | Winner, ICRA Best Paper Award in Service Robotics | |
| 2020 | Elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control System Society | |
| 2020 | AIAA Intelligent Systems Award | |
| 2019 | Winner, IROS Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics sponsored by KROS | |
| 2019 | Finalist, IROS Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics in memory of Motohiro Kisoi | |
| 2019 | AUVSI XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award (joint with NASA) | |
| 2019 | Co-author for Outstanding Student Paper Honorable Mention at AAAI-19. | |
| 2018 | Finalist for ICRA Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award | |
| 2017 | Department of the Air Force Commander's Public Service Award | |
| 2017 | Co-author for Winner of IROS Best Student Paper Award | |
| 2017 | Finalist for IROS Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics | |
| 2017 | Finalist for ICRA Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award | |
| 2015 | AeroLion Technologies Outstanding Paper Award for Journal Unmanned Systems given for paper A. N. Kopeikin, S. S. Ponda, L. B. Johnson, J. P. How, Dynamic Mission Planning for Communication Control in Multiple Unmanned Aircraft Teams, Unmanned Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013) 41-58. | |
| 2015 | First place in the Second IEEE Control Systems Society Video Clip Contest | |
| 2015 | Finalist for best paper award at RSS 2015 | |
| 2015 | Best paper in NIPS workshop on multiagent systems | |
| 2015 | Finalist for ``Best project in 2015'' award from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Advanced Concepts Committee | |
| 2014 | AIAA Intelligent Systems best paper presented at the 2013 AIAA Infotech@Aerospace conference (''Robust Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Parafoils under Wind Uncertainty'' by Luders et al.). | |
| 2013 | AIAA Best Paper Award from 2012 Guidance Navigation and Control Conference by the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Technical Committee. (``Experimental demonstration of efficient multi-agent learning and planning for persistent missions in uncertain environments'' by N. Ure et al.) | |
| 2013 | Finalist for the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award at ICRA for paper ``Reinforcement Learning with Misspecified Model Classes'' by J. Joseph et al. | |
| 2012 | Recipient of the AIAA Best Paper Award from the 2011 Guidance Navigation and Control Conference by the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Technical Committee for the paper ``Decentralized Information-Rich Planning and Hybrid Sensor Fusion for Uncertainty Reduction in Human-Robot Missions'' by S. Ponda et al. | |
| 2011 | Best Applications paper published in Automatica over the past three years for paper H.L. Choi and J.P. How ``Continuous trajectory planning of mobile sensors for informative forecasting,'' Vol. 46, Issue 8, Pages 1266-1275 | |
| 2011 | National Instruments Graphical System Design Achievement Award (Education category) | |
| 2009 | Appointed Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT | |
| 2009 | Boeing Special Invention award | |
| 2008 | Raymond L. Bisplinghoff Fellow for MIT Aero/Astro Department | |
| 2003 | Institute of Navigation Burka Award to recognize outstanding achievement in the preparation of papers contributing to the advancement of navigation and space guidance. | |
| 2000-2002 | Boeing Associate Professor | |
| 1997-1999 | Charles Lee Powell Faculty Scholar | |
| 1995 | NASA Certificate of Appreciation for MACE on STS-67 | |
| 1994-1997 | Davis Faculty Scholar in the School of Engineering, Stanford University | |
| 1987-1991 | The 1967 Science and Engineering Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. |
| Design, implementation, and analysis of robust controllers for the Middeck Active Control Experiment (MACE) flown on STS-67 March 2-16, 1995 | |
| Litton Systems of Canada Ltd., Toronto (1987) | |
| Boeing Aircraft, Dehavilland Division, Toronto, Canada (1986) | |
| Atlantis Flight Research, Woodbridge, Canada (1985) |
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