Our Publications

Journal Papers

• Dumble, Steven J., Gibbens, Peter W. (2013) Terrain-Aided Visual Horizon Attitude Determination, IEEE Transactions on Robotics. (UNDER-REVIEW)
• Dumble, Steven J., Gibbens, Peter W. (2013) Efficient Terrain-Aided Visual Horizon Localisation, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems. (UNDER-REVIEW)
• Dumble, Steven J., Gibbens, Peter W. (2013) Airborne Vision-Aided Navigation Using Road Intersection Features, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. (IN PREPERATION)

• Dumble, Steven J., Gibbens, Peter W. (2012) Horizon Profile Detection for Attitude Determination, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Vol: 68, No: 3-4, Pages: 339-357.

• Gibbens, Peter W., Medagoda, Eran. (2011) Efficient Model Predictive Control Algorithm for Aircraft, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol: 34, No: 6, Pages: 1909-1915.

• Medagoda, Eran., Gibbens, Peter W. (2010) Synthetic-Waypoint Guidance Algorithm for Following a Desired Flight Trajectory, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol: 33, No: 2, Pages: 601-606.

• Stone, R., Anderson, P., Hutchison, C., Tsai, A., Gibbens, Peter W., Wong, K. (2008) Flight Testing of the T-Wing Tail-Sitter Unmanned Air Vehicle, Journal of Aircraft, Vol: 45, No: 2, Pages: 673-685.

Conference Papers

• Verstraete, D., Gibbens, Peter W., Wong, K. (2011) Is a small UAV with extended altitude capabilities feasible?, Fourteenth Australian International Aerospace Congress.
• Gibbens, Peter W., Verstraete, D. (2011) Learning aircraft design and flight control system design using flight simulation as a CDIO conduit, 7th International CDIO Conference.

• Medagoda, Eran. D.B. (2010) Closed loop stability of synthetic waypoint guidance algorithm, IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, Vol: 18, No: 1, Pages: 75-80.
• Medagoda, Eran. D.B, Gibbens, Peter W. (2010) Efficient predictive flight control , International Conference on Control Automation and Systems. Pages: 1297-1302
• Gibbens, Peter W., Dumble, Steven J., Medagoda, Eran. D.B. (2010) Flight Control System Design: Learning Enhancement Through Motion Based Flight Simulation, Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education.

• Gibbens, Peter W., Medagoda, Eran. D.B., Dumble, Steven J. (2009) Enhancement of Learning in Aircraft Handling Qualities Through Variable Stability Flight Simulation, 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education.

• Tsai, A., Gibbens, Peter W., Stone, R. (2007) Terminal Phase Visual Position Estimation for a Tail-Sitting Vertical Takeoff and Landing UAV via a Kalman Filter., Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXV: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision.
• Stone, R., Anderson, P., Hutchison, C., Tsai, A., Gibbens, Peter W., Roberts, J., Wong, K. (2007) Vertical Flight Testing and Parameter Identification for the T-Wing UAV, 12th Australian International Aerospace Congress.

• Tsai, A., Gibbens, Peter W., Stone, R. (2006) Visual Position Estimation for Automatic Landing of a Tail-Sitter Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle, 13th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice.

Book Chapters

• Tsai, A., Gibbens, Peter W., Stone, R. (2006) Terminal Phase Vision-Based Target Recognition and 3D Pose Estimation for a Tail-Sitter, Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle, Advances in Image and Video Technology, Pages: 672-681.

Dissertations

• Dumble, Steven J. (2013) Airborne Vision-Based Attitude Estimation and Localisation, University of Sydney. (UNDER-EXAMINATION)

• Medagoda, Eran D.B. (2011) Efficient Predictive Guidance and Control for Aircraft Applications, University of Sydney.

UG Theses

• Paul, Nicholas. (2011) The Design and Development of a Low-Cost, Robust, Real-time Attitude Estimation System, University of Sydney.
• Robertson, Jeremy. (2011) TJ400 Thrust Modelling and Visual Data Acquisition, University of Sydney.

• Timms, Daivd. (2010) Aircraft Predictive Control for Gust Rejection, University of Sydney.
• Siebert, Thomas. (2010) Computer Vision for Aircraft Navigation, University of Sydney.
• Williams, Daivd. (2010) Vision Systems for Aircraft Navigation and Ground Feature Mapping, University of Sydney.
• Scott, Michael. (2010) Vision Systems for Aircraft Navigation, University of Sydney.
• Nguyen, Joseph, L. (2010) Aspects for Real-Time GPS Attitude Determination, University of Sydney.
• Frecker, Harry. (2010) Flight Data Acquisition Systems, University of Sydney.
• Shapira, David. (2010) Camera Housing Design and Manufacture for Aircraft Visual Navigation, University of Sydney.

• Stepan, Leon. (2009) Aircraft Predictive Control for Gust Rejection, University of Sydney.
• Moray, Victor. (2009) Vision Systems for Flight Navigation, University of Sydney.
• Canhao, Alex. (2009) Gust Rejection for Terminal Guidance, University of Sydney.
• Lau, Kelvin. (2009) Optical Flow for Aircraft Guidance, University of Sydney.
• Eberl, Lorenz.(2009) Camera Sensor Integration and Data Fusion , University of Sydney.

• Blair, Iain. (2008) Camera Software Development and Horizon Detection, University of Sydney.
• Evans, Eric. (2008) GPS Attitude Detrmination, University of Sydney.
• Kilazoglou, Andrew. (2008) Flight Data Acquisition System, Power Supply and System Integration, University of Sydney.
• Weber, Dominic. (2008) Design and Integration of Jabiru J400 FDAS, University of Sydney.

• Dumble, Steven J. (2007) Vision Systems for Flight Guidance, University of Sydney.
• Gan, Jason. (2007) Predictive Control for Terminal Guidance, University of Sydney.
• Schunemann, Stirling. (2007) Flight Data Acquisition System, University of Sydney.
• Gallagher, Tim. (2007) Jabiru Data Acquisition System, University of Sydney.
• Mylchreest, David. (2007) Jabiru Aerodynamic and Inertial Estimation , University of Sydney.

• Toal, Allan. (2006) Instrumentation Systems for Jabiru Flight Laboratory, University of Sydney.
• Taylor, Russell. (2006) Data Acquisition System - Sensors and software, University of Sydney.