Submitted Papers

Journal Papers

  • Luis O. Mejias, Srikanth Saripalli, Pascual Cervera, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Visual Servoing of an Autonomous Helicopter in Urban Areas Using Feature Tracking," In Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 185-199, 2006. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Kale Harbick, James F. Montgomery, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Planar Spline Trajectory Following for an Autonomous Helicopter," In Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence - Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 237-242, May 2004. [PDF][PS][bibtex]
  • Srikanth Saripalli, James F. Montgomery, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Visually-Guided Landing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle," In IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 371-381, Jun 2003. [PDF][bibtex]
  • P. J. Garcia-Pardo, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and James F. Montgomery, "Towards Vision-Based Safe Landing for an Autonomous Helicopter," In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 19-29, 2001. [PDF][PS][bibtex]
  • James F. Montgomery, Andrew H. Fagg, and George A. Bekey, "The USC AFV-I: A Behavior-Based Entry in the 1994 International Aerial Robotics Competition," In IEEE Expert, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 16-22, Apr 1995. [bibtex]

Conference Papers

  • Srikanth Saripalli and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Landing a Helicopter on a Moving Target," In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2030-2035, 2007. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Jonathan Kelly, Srikanth Saripalli, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Combined Visual and Inertial Navigation for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle," In Proceedings of the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, Jul 2007. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Luis O. Mejias, Srikanth Saripalli, Pascual Cervera, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Visual Servoing for Tracking Features in Urban Areas Using an Autonomous Helicopter," In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2503-2508, 2006. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Stefan E. Hrabar and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Optimum Camera Angle for Optic Flow-Based Centering Response," In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3922 - 3927, Oct 2006. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Stefan E. Hrabar, Peter I. Corke, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Kane Usher, and Jonathan M. Roberts, "Combined Optic-Flow and Stereo-Based Navigation of Urban Canyons for a UAV," In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 302-309, 2005. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Luis O. Mejias, Srikanth Saripalli, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Pascual Cervera, "Detection and Tracking of External Features in an Urban Environment Using an Autonomous Helicopter," In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3983-3988, Apr 2005. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Stefan E. Hrabar and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "A Comparison of Two Camera Configurations For Optic-Flow Based Navigation of a UAV Through Urban Canyons," In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2673 - 2680, Sep 2004. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Peter I. Corke, Stefan E. Hrabar, Ron Peterson, Daniela Rus, Srikanth Saripalli, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Deployment and Connectivity Repair of a Sensor Net," In 9th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics 2004, 2004. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Peter I. Corke, Stefan E. Hrabar, Ron Peterson, Daniela Rus, Srikanth Saripalli, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Autonomous Deployment and Repair of a Sensor Network using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle," In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3602-3609, Apr 2004. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Srikanth Saripalli, Jonathan M. Roberts, Peter I. Corke, Gregg Buskey, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "A Tale of Two Helicopters," In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 805-810, Oct 2003. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Srikanth Saripalli and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Landing on a Moving Target using an Autonomous Helicopter," In Proceedings of the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, Jul 2003. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Stefan E. Hrabar and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Omnidirectional Vision for an Autonomous Helicopter," In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 558 - 563, 2003. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Srikanth Saripalli, James F. Montgomery, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Vision-based Autonomous Landing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle," In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2799-2804, 2002. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Srikanth Saripalli, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and James F. Montgomery, "A Testbed for Mars Precision Landing Experiments by Emulating Spacecraft Dynamics on a Model Helicopter," In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2097-2102, EPFL, Switzerland, Oct 2002. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Srikanth Saripalli, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and James F. Montgomery, "An Experimental Study of the Autonomous Helicopter Landing Problem," In Proceedings, International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Sant'Angelo d'Ischia, Italy, 2002. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Kale Harbick, James F. Montgomery, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Planar Spline Trajectory Following for an Autonomous Helicopter," In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, pp. 408-413, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Jul 2001. [PDF][PS][bibtex]
  • Richard T. Vaughan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Javi Mesa-Martinez, and James F. Montgomery, "Fly spy: lightweight localization and target tracking for cooperating ground and air robots," In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Knoxville, Tennessee, Oct 2000. [PS][bibtex]
  • Gaurav S. Sukhatme, James F. Montgomery, and Maja J. Matarić, "Design and Implementation of a Mechanically Heterogeneous Robot Group," In Procedings of the SPIE, Boston, MA, Sep 1999. [bibtex]
  • Gaurav S. Sukhatme and James F. Montgomery, "Heterogeneous Robot Group Control and Applications," In Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, International Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 1999. [MS Word][bibtex]
  • James F. Montgomery and George A. Bekey, "Learning Helicopter Control Through 'Teaching by Showing'," In IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, 1998. [bibtex]
  • Gaurav S. Sukhatme, James F. Montgomery, and George A. Bekey, "Implementing Robots in Hardware as a Tool for Integration," In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1998. [bibtex]
  • Andrew H. Fagg, M A. Lewis, James F. Montgomery, and George A. Bekey, "The USC Autonomous Flying Vehicle: an Experiment in Real-Time Behavior-Based Control," In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Yokohama, Japan, Jul 1993. [bibtex]

Tech Reports

  • James F. Montgomery, "The USC Autonomous Flying Vehicle (AFV) Project: Year 2000 Status," Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems Technical Report IRIS-00-390, 2000. [PS][bibtex]
  • Gaurav S. Sukhatme, James F. Montgomery, and Maja J. Matarić, " Design and Implementation of a Mechanically Heterogeneous Robot Group," IRIS Technical Report, IRIS-99-372, 1999. [bibtex]
  • Gaurav S. Sukhatme, James F. Montgomery, and Maja J. Matarić, "Design and Implementation of a Mechanically Heterogeneous Robot Group," Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems Technical Report IRIS-99-372, 1999. [bibtex]
  • James F. Montgomery, "Learning Helicopter Control Through "Teaching by Showing"," Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems Technical Report IRIS-99-370, 1999. [bibtex]

Book Chapters

  • Srikanth Saripalli, David J. Naffin, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, "Autonomous Flying Vehicle Research at the University of Southern California," In Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, A. Schultz and L. E. Parker (eds.), pp. 73-82, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. [PDF][bibtex]
  • Gaurav S. Sukhatme, James F. Montgomery, and Richard T. Vaughan, "Experiments with Aerial-Ground Robots," In Robot Teams: From Diversity to Polymorphism, T. Balch and L.E. Parker (eds.), AK Peters, 2001. [bibtex]

Ph.D. Theses

  • Stefan E. Hrabar, Vision-Based 3D Navigation for an Autonomous Helicopter, USC, Jan 2006. [PDF][bibtex]
  • James F. Montgomery, Learning Helicopter Control Through 'Teaching by Showing, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, May 1999. [bibtex]