Islam I. Hussein, Ph.D.

Publications

I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres and D. C. Hyland. Optimal formation design for imaging and fuel usage. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 30 No.5, pp. 1511-1515, 2007.
I. Hussein, A. M. Bloch, D. J. Scheeres, D. C. Hyland and N. H. McClamroch. Optimal motion planning for dual-spacecraft interferometry. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 723-737, 2007.
I. Hussein and D. Stipanovic. Effective Coverage Control for Mobile Sensor Networks with Guaranteed Collision Avoidance. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Special Issue on Multi-Vehicle Systems Cooperative Control with Applications, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 642-657, 2007.
I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Dynamic coverage optimal control for multiple spacecraft interferometric imaging. Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 69-93, January 2007.
I. Hussein and H. Schaub. The Three-Spacecraft Coulomb Tether Problem. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Vol. 96, pp. 137-157, 2006.
I. Hussein and D. J. Scheeres. $J 2 correction for a class of Earth-orbiting interferometric observatories. Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 53, No. 2, 2005.$
B. Gillespie, V. Patoglu, I. Hussein and E. Westervelt. On-line symbolic constraint embedding for simulation of hybrid dynamical systems. Journal of Multibody System Dynamics. Vol. 14, No. 3-4, pp. 387-417, November 2005.
I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres, and D. C. Hyland. Interferometric observatories in earth orbit. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 297–301, 2004.

Conference Proceedings

I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Stability and Control of a Two-Craft Magnetic Constellation. AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Galveston, TX, January 27--31, 2008. Paper No. 08-189.
I. Hussein, D. Stipanovic, and Y. Wang. Reliable coverage control using heterogeneous vehicles. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, 2007, pp. 6142-6147.
I. Hussein and H. Schaub. Stability and Control of Relative Equilibria for the Three-Spacecraft Coulomb Tether Problem. AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Mackinac Island, MI, August, 19–23, 2007. Paper No. 07-269.
Y. Wang and I. Hussein. Cooperative vision-based multi-vehicle dynamic coverage control for underwater applications. Proceedings of the IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control, 2007, pp. 82-87. Invited paper.
I. Hussein and H. Schaub. Stability and reconfiguration analysis of a circularly spinning 2-craft Coulomb tether. Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, 2007, pp. 1-11.
I. Hussein and D. Stipanovic. Effective coverage control using dynamic sensor networks with flocking and guaranteed collision avoidance. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 3420–3425. Invited paper.
I. Hussein, A. M. Bloch, and F. Zeitz. Optimal motion planning for UAV radar evasion. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 1067–1072. Best session paper.
I. Hussein. A Kalman filter-based control strategy for dynamic coverage control. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 3271–3276.
I. Hussein and M. A. Demetriou. Estimation of distributed processes using mobile spatially distributed sensors. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 2756–2761. Invited paper.
I. Hussein. Cooperative effective coverage control using dynamic sensor networks with guaranteed collision avoidance and network connectivity. Proceedings of the IASTED Conference on Control and Applications, Montreal, PQ, Canada, 2007, paper No. 568–052. Invited paper.
S. R. Lindemann, I. Hussein and S. M. LaValle. Real Time Feedback Control for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots With Obstacles. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, 2006, 2406-2411.
I. Hussein and D. M. Stipanovic. Effective Coverage Control for Mobile Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, 2006, pp. 2747–2752.
I. Hussein, A. Sanyal, M. Leok and A. M. Bloch. A Discrete Variational Integrator for Optimal Control Problems on SO(3). Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, 2006, pp. 6636-6641. [arXiv.org]
I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Optimal Control of Nonholonomic Under-Actuated Mechanical Systems. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2006, pp. 5590–5595.
I. Hussein and H. Schaub. The Three-Spacecraft Coulomb Tether Problem. Proceedings of the Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Tampa, FL, 2006.
I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Constrained optimal trajectory tracking on the group of rigid body motions. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, 2005, pp. 2152-2157.
I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres and D. C. Hyland. Optimal formation control for imaging and fuel usage with terminal imaging constraints. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2005, 352-357.
I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Optimal control of under-actuated systems with application to Lie groups. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, OR, 2005, pp. 1472-1477.
I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Dynamic coverage optimal control for interferometric imaging spacecraft formations (part II): The nonlinear case. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, OR, 2005, pp. 2391-2396.
I. Hussein, A. M. Bloch, D. J. Scheeres, D. C. Hyland and N. H. McClamroch. Optimal fuel-image motion planning for a class of dual spacecraft formations. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, OR, 2005, pp. 2405-2410.
I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres and D. C. Hyland. Optimal formation control for imaging and fuel usage. Proceedings of the Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Copper Mountain, CO, 2005, paper AAS 05-160.
I. Hussein and A. Bloch. Dynamic coverage optimal control for interferometric imaging spacecraft formations. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, 2004, pp. 1812-1817.
I. Hussein and A. Bloch. Optimal control on Riemannian manifolds with potential fields. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, 2004, pp. 1982-1987.
I. Hussein and A. Bloch. Dynamic interpolation on Riemannian manifolds: An application to interferometric imaging. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, MA, 2004, pp. 413-418. Best Student Paper Award Finalist.
I. Hussein and D. J. Scheeres. Effects of orbit perturbations on a class of Earth-orbiting interferometric observatories. Proceedings of the Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Maui, HI, 2004, paper AAS 04-210.
I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres, and D. C. Hyland. Control of a satellite formation for imaging applications. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Denver, CO, 2003, pp. 308-–313. Best Student Paper Award Finalist.
I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres, and D. C. Hyland. Formation path planning for optimal fuel and image quality for a class of interferometric imaging missions. Proceedings of the Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 2003, paper AAS 03-174.
I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres, and D. C. Hyland. Interferometric observatories in Earth orbit. Proceedings of the Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Ponce, Peurto Rico, 2003, paper AAS 03-172.
I. Hussein, S. L. Lacy and D. S. Bernstein. Data compression for subspace-based identification using periodic and non-periodic inputs. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Anchorage, AK, 2002, pp. 3313--3318.