Refereed Journal Publications: (* indicates students of mine)

  1. Tom DeFelice, John J. Bird, Duncan Axisa, C. Alexander Hirst*, Roelof P. Burger, Eric W. Frew, Darrel Baumgardner, Gerhard Botha, Henno Havenga, Dan Breed, Steve Bornestein, Chris Choate, Ceu Gomez-Falk, Michael Rhodes. “Modern and Prospective Technologies for Weather Modification activities: A first demonstration of integrating autonomous uncrewed aircraft systems.” Atmospheric Research. Vol 290, July 2023.
  2. Katherine Glasheen*, John J. Bird, and Eric W. Frew. “Experimental Assessment of Chance-Constrained Motion Planning Leveraging Dispersed Computing for Small Uncrewed Aircraft.” Field Robotics. April 2023.
  3. C. Alexander Hirst*, John Bird, Roelof Burger, Henno Havenga, Gerhardt Botha, Darrel Baumgardner, Tom DeFelice, Duncan Axisa, Eric Frew. “An Autonomous Uncrewed Aircraft System Performing Targeted Atmospheric Observation for Cloud Seeding Operations.” Field Robotics. 3:687-724, May 2023.
  4. Danny G. Riley* and Eric W. Frew. “Fielded Human-Robot Interaction for a Heterogeneous Team in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.” ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. 12(3): 1-24. June 23, 2023.
  5. Harel Biggie, Eugene R. Rush, Danny G. Riley*, Shakeeb Ahmad, Michael T. Ohradzansky, Kyle Harlow, Michael J. Miles, Daniel Torres, Steve McGuire, Eric W. Frew, Christoffer Heckman, and J. Sean Humbert. “Flexible Supervised Autonomy for Exploration in Subterranean Environments.” Field Robotics. 3:125–189, January 2023.
  6. Michael T. Ohradzansky, et. al. “Multi-Agent Autonomy: Advancements and Challenges in Subterranean Exploration.” Field Robotics. 2:1068-1104, June 2022.
  7. Gijs de Boer, Cory Dixon, Steven Borenstein, Dale A. Lawrence, Jack Elston, Daniel Sean Hesselius, Maciej Stachura, Roger Laurence III, Sara Swenson, Christopher M. Choate, Abhiram Doddi, Aiden Sesnic, Katherine Glasheen*, Zakariya Laouar, Flora Quinby, Eric W. Frew, and Brian M. Argrow. “University of Colorado and Black Swift Technologies RPAS-based measurements of the lower atmosphere during LAPSE-RATE.” Earth System Science Data (ESSD). 13(6): 2515-2528, June 2021.
  8. Eric Frew, Brian Argrow, Steve Borenstein, Sara Swenson, C. Alexander Hirst*, Henno Havenga, and Adam Houston. “Field Observation of Tornadic Supercells by Multiple Autonomous Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aircraft.”  Journal of Field Robotics. 37(6): 1077-1093. September 2020.
  9. Katherine Glasheen*, Matthias Steiner, James Pinto, and Eric Frew. “Assessment of Finescale Local Wind Forecasts using Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems.” AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. 17(4). April 2020.
  10. Sangwoo Moon* and Eric Frew. "Communication-aware Mutual Information Measure for Distributed
    Autonomous Robotic Information Gathering”. Robotics and Automation Letters. 4(4): 3137-3144. October 2019.
  11. Sara Swenson, Brian Argrow, Eric Frew, Steve Borenstein, Jason Keeler. “Development and Deployment of Air-Launched Drifters from Small UAS.” Sensors. 19(9): 2149, May 2019.
  12. Gijs de Boer; Brian Argrow; John Cassano; Joseph Cione; Eric Frew; Dale Lawrence; Gary Wick; Cory Wolff. “Advancing unmanned aerial capabilities for atmospheric research.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 100:ES105-ES108, March 2019.
  13. Roger J Laurence, Brian M Argrow, and Eric Frew. “Wind Tunnel Results for a Distributed Flush Airdata System.” Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 34(7):1519-1528, 2017.
  14. Neeti Wagle* and Eric W. Frew. “Forward Adaptive Transfer of Gaussian Process Regression for Robot Learning” AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. 14(4): 214-231, 2017.
  15. Eric W. Frew and Dale Lawrence. “Tracking Expanding Star Curves Using Guidance Vector Fields.” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 40(6):1488-1492, June 2017. 
  16. Maciej Stachura* and Eric W. Frew. “Communication-Aware Information Gathering Experiments with an Unmanned Aircraft System.” Journal of Field Robotics. 34(4): 736-756, June 2017.
  17. Anthony J. Carfang* and Eric W. Frew. “Fast Link Scheduling Policies for Persistent Data Ferrying.” AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 13(12): 433-449, 2016.
  18. Anthony J. Carfang*, Neeti Wagle*, and Eric W. Frew.  "Integrating Nonparametric Learning with Path Planning for Data-Ferry Communications", Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, Vol. 12: 784-799, 2015.
  19. Wenceslao Shaw-Cortez* and Eric W. Frew. “Efficient Trajectory Development for Unmanned Aircraft System Dynamic Soaring.” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 38(3): 519-523, 2015.
  20. Anthony J. Carfang*, Eric W. Frew, and Derek Kingston. “Cascaded Optimization of Aircraft Trajectories for Persistent Data Ferrying.” AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. 11(12): 807-820, 2014.
  21. Jason Roadman, Jack Elston*, Brian Argrow, and Eric W. Frew. “Mission Performance of the Tempest UAS in Supercell Storms.” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, 49(6): 1821-1830, 2012.
  22. Cory Dixon* and Eric W. Frew, “Optimizing Cascaded Chains of Unmanned Aircraft acting as Communication Relays.” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 30(5): 883-898, 2012.
  23. Eric W. Frew, Jack Elston*, Brian Argrow, Adam Houston, and Erik Rasmussen. “Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Sampling Severe Local Storms and Related Phenomena.” Robotics and Automation Magazine, 19(1):85-95, 2012.
  24. A. L. Houston, B. Argrow, J. Elston*, J. Lahowetz, E. W. Frew and P. C. Kennedy. “The Collaborative Colorado-Nebraska Unmanned Aircraft System Experiment.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(1):39-54, Jan. 2012.
  25. Jack Elston*, Brian Argrow, Eric W. Frew, Adam Houston, and Jerry Straka. “Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Severe Storm Sampling using Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations” AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, 8(9):269-294, 2011.
  26. Maciej Stachura* and Eric W. Frew. “Cooperative Target Localization with a Communication Aware Unmanned Aircraft System.” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 34(5), Sept.-Oct. 2011.
  27. Jack Elston*, Jason Roadman, Maciej Stachura*, Brian Argrow, Adam Houston, and Eric W. Frew. “The Tempest Unmanned Aircraft System for In Situ Observations of Tornadic Supercells: Design and Flight Test Results.” Journal of Field Robotics, 28(4):461–483, July/August 2011.
  28. Jack Elston* and Eric W. Frew. “Unmanned Aircraft Guidance for Penetration of Pre-Tornadic Storms.” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 33(1):99–107, Jan.-Feb. 2010.
  29. Jack Elston*, Eric W. Frew, Dale Lawrence, Peter Gray, and Brian Argrow. “Net-Centric Communication and Control for a Heterogeneous Unmanned Aircraft System.” Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 56(1-2):199-232, Sept., 2009.
  30. Eric W. Frew. “Information-Theoretic Integration of Sensing and Communication for Active Robot Networks.” Invited to special issue of Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), 14(3):267-280 June 2009.
  31. Cory Dixon* and Eric W. Frew. “Maintaining Optimal Communication Chains in Robotic Sensor Networks using Mobility Control.” Invited to special issue of Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), 14(3):281-291 June 2009.
  32. Brian Argrow, Elizabeth Weatherhead, and Eric W. Frew. “Real-Time Participant Feedback from the Symposium for Civilian Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems.” Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 54:87-103 March 2009.
  33. Eric W. Frew and Timothy X. Brown. “Networking Issues for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems.” Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 54:21-37, March 2009.
  34. Eric W. Frew and Timothy X Brown, “Airborne Communication Networks for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems.” Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Aviation Information Systems, 96(12): 2008-2027, Dec. 2008.
  35. Dale A. Lawrence, Eric. W. Frew, and William J. Pisano, “Lyapunov Vector Fields for Autonomous UAV Flight Control” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 31(5):1220–1229, Sept.-Oct. 2008.
  36. Eric W. Frew. “Sensitivity of Cooperative Target Geolocalization to Orbit Coordination.”  AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 31(4):1028-1040, July-August 2008.
  37. Eric W. Frew, Cory Dixon*, Jack Elston*, Brian Argrow, and Timothy X. Brown. “Networked Communication, Command, and Control of an Unmanned Aircraft System.” AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, 5(4):84–107, 2008.
  38. Eric W. Frew, Dale A. Lawrence, and Stephen Morris. “Coordinated Standoff Tracking of Moving Targets using Lyapunov Guidance Vector Fields.”  AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 31(2):290–306, March-April 2008.

Reports:

  1. Committee on Autonomy Research for Civil Aviation; Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; National Research Council. Autonomy Research for Civil Aviation: Toward a New Era of Flight. The National Academies Press. 2014.

 

Book Chapters: (* indicates students of mine)

  1. Jack Elston*, Maciej Stachura*, Cory Dixon*, Brian Argrow, and Eric W. Frew. “Layered Approach to Networked Command and Control of Complex UAS.” Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Edited by Kimon P. Valavanis and George J. Vachtsevanos, 2015.
  2. Maciej Stachura*, Jack Elston*, Brian Argrow, Eric W. Frew, and Cory Dixon*. “National Airspace System Integration Strategy for Nomadic Missions with Small UAS.” Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Edited by Kimon P. Valavanis and George J. Vachtsevanos, 2015.
  3. Cory Dixon* and Eric W. Frew. “Decentralized Extremum-Seeking Control of Nonholonomic Vehicles to Form a Communication Chain.” Advances in Cooperative Control and Optimization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 369, Michael J. Hirsch, Panos Pardalos, Robert Murphey, and Don Grundel, Eds. Springer-Verlag, Nov. 2007, pp. 311-322.
  4. Timothy Brown, Brian Argrow, Eric Frew, Cory Dixon*, Daniel Henkel, Jack Elston*, and Harvey Gates. “Experiments Using Small Unmanned Aircraft to Augment a Mobile Ad Hoc Network.” Emerging Technologies in Wireless LANs: Theory, Design, and Deployment, Edited by Benny Bing, Ch. 28, p. 123-145, 2007.

 

Conference Publications: (* indicates students of mine)

  1. Barbier L, Morrissey L, Ahmed N, Frew E, Martinez S, Center K. "Distributed Event-Triggered Localization for High Latency Communication." American Control Conference (ACC), 5016-5023, June 08 - June 10, 2022.
  2. Alex Hirst*, John Bird, and Eric Frew. “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Agile Guidance of Fixed Wing sUAS.” IEEE Aerospace Conference. March 2022.
  3. Nicholas Conlon, Aastha Acharya, Jamison McGinley, Trevor Slack, Camron Hirst*, Mitchell Hebert, Christopher Reale, Eric Frew, Rebecca Russell, and Nisar Ahmed. “Generalizing Competency Self-Assessment for Autonomous Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning.” 2022 AIAA SciTech Forum. January 2022.
  4. John Bird, Camron Hirst*, Steven Valenzuela, Steve Borenstein, and Eric Frew. “An Autopilot Interface to Advance Fixed-Wing UAS Autonomy Research.” 2022 AIAA SciTech Forum. January 2022.
  5. Katherine Glasheen*, John Bird, and Eric Frew. “Particle-Based Modeling of Uncertainty in Small Unmanned Aircraft Behavior for Safe Motion Planning.” 2022 AIAA SciTech Forum. January 2022.
  6. Shakeeb Ahmad, Andrew Mills, Eugene Rush, Eric W. Frew, James Sean Humbert. “3D Reactive Control and Frontier-Based Exploration for Unstructured Environments.” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
  7. Dan Riley and Eric Frew. “Assessment of Coordinated Heterogeneous Exploration of Complex Environments.” Conference on Control Technology and Applications. San Diego, CA. August 2021.
  8. John Jackson*, Luca Laurenti, Eric Frew and Morteza Lahijanian. “Strategy Synthesis for Partially-known Switched Stochastic Systems.” 24th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control. 2021.
  9. John Bird and Eric Frew. “An Architecture for Field Research with Autonomous Fixed-Wing Aircraft.” AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition. January 2021.
  10. John Jackson*, Luca Laurenti, Eric W. Frew, and Morteza Lahijanian. “Safety Verification of Unknown Dynamical Systems via Gaussian Process Regression.” 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). December 2020.
  11. Ramya Kanlapuli Rajasekaran*, Nisar Ahmed, and Eric W. Frew. “Bayesian Fusion of Unlabeled Vision and RF Data for Aerial Tracking of Ground Targets. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2020.
  12. John Bird, Katherine Glasheen*, and Eric Frew. “Integrated Planning, Decision-Making, and Weather Modeling for UAS Navigating Complex Weather.” DDDAS2020: InfoSymbiotics/Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems. Boston, MA, September 2020.
  13. Sangwoo Moon*, John J. Bird, Steve Borenstein, and Eric W. Frew. “A Gazebo/ROS-based Communication-Realistic Simulator for Networked sUAS.” The 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Athens, Greece. September 2020.
  14. Sangwoo Moon* and Eric Frew. “Distributed Optimization of Nonlinear, Non-Gaussian, Communication-Aware Information using Particle Methods.” International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Paris, France. June 2020.
  15.  Michael T. Ohradzansky, Andrew B. Mills*, Eugene R. Rush, Danny G. Riley*, Eric W. Frew, and J. Sean Humbert. “Reactive Control and Metric-Topological Planning for Exploration.” International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Paris, France. June 2020.
  16. Eric Frew, Katherine Glasheen*, Alex Hirst*, John Bird, and Brian Argrow. “A Dispersed Autonomy Architecture for Information-Gathering Drone Swarms.” IEEE Aerospace Conference. March 2020.
  17. John Jackson* and Eric Frew. “A Distributed Greedy Controller for Multiple sUAS using Expected Downstream Information Gain.” AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition. January 2020.
  18. Camron Hirst*, John Jackson*, and Eric Frew. “Autonomous decision making for pseudo-Lagrangian drifter deployment onboard sUAS.” AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition. January 2020.
  19. Hansol Yoon, Yi Chou, Xin Chen, Eric Frew and Sriram Sankaranarayanan. “Predictive Runtime Monitoring for Linear Stochastic Systems and Applications to Geofence Enforcement for UAVs.” 19th International Conference on Runtime Verification, Porto, Portugal, 8-11 October 2019.
  20. Ian Loefgren, Nisar Ahmed, Eric W Frew, Christoffer Heckman, and Sean Humbert. “Scalable Event-Triggered Data Fusion for Autonomous Cooperative Swarm Localization.” 22nd International Conference on Information Fusion. Ottawa, Canada, July 2-5, 2019
  21. Phuc Nguyen, Taeho Kim, Jinpeng Miao, Daniel Hesselius, Erin Kenneally, Daniel Massey, Eric Frew, Richard Han and Tam Vu. “Towards RF-based Localization of a Drone and Its Controller.” 5th Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications for Civilian Use (DRONET19). Seoul, South Korea, June 21, 2019.
  22. Sangwoo Moon* and Eric Frew. “A Communication-aware Information Measure for Cooperative Information Gathering by Robotic Sensor Networks.” American Control Conference. Philadelphia, PA, July 10-12, 2019.
  23. Brett Israelsen, Nisar Ahmed, Brian Argrow, Eric Frew, and Dale Lawrence. “Machine Self-Confidence in Autonomous Systems via Meta-Analysis of Decision Processes.” 10th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2019). Washington D.C, July 24-28, 2019.
  24. Sangwoo Moon*, Eric Frew, Ramya Rajasekaran*, Katherine Glasheen*, and Nisar Ahmed. “Particle Methods for Integrated Sensor Fusion and Cooperative Planning for Tracking Emitters using Airborne Directional Sensors.” AIAA Science and Technology Forum. San Diego, CA, Jan 7-11, 2019.
  25. Katherine Glasheen*, Matthias Steiner, James Pinto, and Eric Frew. “Fusion of Weather Forecasts and In Situ Observations for sUAS Autonomy. “ AIAA Science and Technology Forum. San Diego, CA, Jan 7-11, 2019.
  26. Ramya Kanlapuli Rajasekaran* and Eric Frew. “Assessing Particle Filter Algorithms for Tracking Radio Emitters using Small Unmanned Aircraft.” AIAA Science and Technology Forum. San Diego, CA, Jan 7-11, 2019.
  27. Sara J Swenson, Brian Argrow, Eric W. Frew, Steve Borenstein, Jason M. Keeler, and Adam Houston. “Development of UAV-Deployed Air-Launched Drifters (ALD) for Aboveground Thermodynamic Measurements in Supercells.” 29th Conference on Severe Local Storms. Stowe, VT, October 22-26, 2018.
  28. Eric Frew, Cory Dixon, Steve Borenstein, Glasheen, Ramya Kanlapuli Rajasekaran, Spencer Watza, and Andrew B. Mills. “Lessons Learned from Field Testing Swarming Unmanned Aircraft at the University of Colorado”. AUVSI Xponential, Denver, CO, April 30 – May 3. 2018.
  29. Spencer Watza* and Eric Frew. “Online Hybrid RF Propagation Model for Communication-Aware sUAS Relay Application.” AIAA Science and Technology Forum. Kissimmee, FL, 8–12 January 2018.
  30. Katherine Glasheen*, Andrew Mills*, and Eric Frew. “Toward an Autonomy Architecture for sUAS Network-Enabled Planning in the Cloud.” AIAA Science and Technology Forum. Kissimmee, FL, 8–12 January 2018.
  31. Sangwoo Moon*, Vinod Ramaswamy Pillai, Eric W. Frew, and Nisar Ahmed. “Co-optimization of Communication, Sensing, and Computation for Information Gathering using Cloud Computing”. 1st IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications. Kohala Coast, Hawaii, Aug. 27-30, 2017.
  32. Andrew B. Mills*, Daniel Kim, and Eric W. Frew. “Energy-Aware Aircraft Trajectory Generation Using Pseudospectral Methods with Differential Flatness”. 1st IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications. Kohala Coast, Hawaii, Aug. 27-30, 2017.
  33. Ramya Kanlapuli Rajasekaran* and Eric Frew. “Cyber-security challenges for wireless networked aircraft.” Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), Herndon, VA, Aug. 18-20, 2017.
  34. Sangwoo Moon* and Eric Frew. “Distributed Cooperative Control for Joint Optimization of Sensor Coverage and Target Tracking. The 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Miami, FL, June 13-16, 2017.
  35. Young-Young Shen*, Megan Cattau, Steve Borenstein, Eric Frew, and Doug Weibel. “Toward an Architecture for Subalpine Forest Monitoring Using Commercial Off-the-Shelf Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Sensors.” 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, Denver, CO, June 5-9, 2017.
  36. Ben Mccamish, Arash Termehchy, Behrouz Touri, Vinod Ramaswamy, Eric Frew and Liang Huang. “A Signaling Game Approach to Databases Querying and Interaction.” ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2017), Raleigh, NC, May 14-19, 2017.
  37. Andrew Mills*, Scott Sheahan*, and Eric Frew. “Sensitivity Analysis for Energy-Aware Path Optimization.” AIAA Science and Technology Forum, San Diego, CA, Jan. 2017.
  38. Scott Sheahan*, Andrew Mills*, and Eric Frew. “Kernel Function Evaluation for Gaussian Process Wind Regression.” AIAA Science and Technology Forum, San Diego, CA, Jan. 2017.
  39. Vinod Ramaswamy, Sangwoo Moon, Eric W. Frew, Nisar Ahmed. “Mutual Information based communication aware path planning: A game theoretic perspective.” 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Daejeon, Korea , October 9-14, 2016.
  40. Eric Frew, Brian Argrow, Roger Laurence, Tevis Nichols, Andrew Mills*, and Scott Sheahan*. “Energy-Aware Airborne Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems for Persistent Surveillance and Sampling.” 1st International Conference on InfoSymbiotics / DDDAS (Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems), Hartford, Connecticut, August 9-12, 2016.
  41. Nisar Ahmed, William Whitacre, Sangwoo Moon*, and Eric Frew. “Factorized Covariance Intersection for Scalable Partial State Decentralized Data Fusion.” 19th International Conference on Information Fusion, Heidelberg, Germany, July 2016.
  42. Eric Frew, Brian Argrow, Adam Houston, and Chris Weiss. “Toward an Autonomous Airborne Scientist for Studying Severe Local Storms.” AIAA 8th Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference, Washington, DC, June 2016.
  43. Roger Laurence, III, Brian Argrow, and Eric Frew. “In-Situ Wind Sensing from a Small UAS with Distributed Pressure Sensors”. AIAA 8th Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference, Washington, DC, June 2016.
  44. Michael Otte, Will Silva*, and Eric Frew. “Any-Time Path-Planning: Time-Varying Wind Field + Moving Obstacles.” International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2016.
  45. Will Silva* and Eric Frew. “Experimental Assessment of Online Dynamic Soaring Optimization for Small Unmanned Aircraft.” AIAA SciTech Forum, San Diego, CA, January 2016.
  46. Nisar R. Ahmed, William Whitacre, Sangwoo Moon*, and Eric W. Frew. “Scalable Decentralized Target Localization with Ownship Uncertainties Using Factorized Data Fusion.” AIAA SciTech Forum, San Diego, CA, January 2016.
  47. Woldt W., Frew, E., Meyer, G., Freiberger, R., and Stachura, M. “Flight characteristics of a fixed wing unmanned aircraft system for aerial surveillance of agricultural systems”, 2015 ASABE Annual International Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Paper No. 152190195, 15pp. 2015.
  48. Will Silva*, Eric W. Frew, and Wenceslao Shaw-Cortez. “Implementing Path Planning and Guidance Layers for Dynamic Soaring and Persistence Missions.” International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Denver, CO, June 2015.
  49. Austin Anderson*, Eric W. Frew, and Dirk Grunwald. “Cognitive Radio Development for UAS Applications.” International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Denver, CO, June 2015.
  50. Anthony Carfang*, Neeti Wagle* and Eric W. Frew. “Improving Data Ferrying by Iteratively Learning the Radio Frequency Environment.” 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, IL, Sept 14-18, 2014.
  51. Wayne E. Woldt, Eric W. Frew, George E. Meyer, Maciej Stachura, James Mack . “Performance Measures for Autonomous Navigation System in a Fixed Wing Unmanned Aircraft System Flying Production Agriculture Missions.” American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Montreal, Quebec Canada July 13 – July 16, 2014. 
  52. Wenceslao Shaw-Cortez* and Eric W. Frew. “Efficient Trajectory Development for UAS Dynamic Soaring Applications.” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, National Harbor, MD, January 2014.
  53. Anthony J. Carfang* and Eric W. Frew. “Fast Bandwidth Allocation Policies for Persistent Data Ferrying.” 4th International Workshop on Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 2013.
  54. H. Borowski*, J. R. Marden, D. S. Leslie, and E. W. Frew, "Coarse Resistance Tree Methods for Stochastic Stability Analysis," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2013. 
  55. H. Borowski*, J. R. Marden, and E. W. Frew, "Fast Convergence in Semi-Anonymous Potential Games," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2013.
  56. Anthony J. Carfang*, Eric W. Frew, and Derek Kingston. “A Cascaded Approach to Optimal Aircraft Trajectories for Persistent Data Ferrying.” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Boston, MA, August 2013.
  57. Eric W. Frew, Brian Argrow, Dale Lawrence, Jack Elston*, and Maciej Stachura*. “Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Communication and Atmospheric Sensing Missions.” American Control Conference, Washington DC, June 2013.
  58. Eric W. Frew, Brian Argrow, Adam Houston, Chris Weiss, Jack Elston. “An Energy-Aware Airborne Dynamic Data-Driven Application System for Persistent Sampling and Surveillance.” International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2013, Barcelona, Spain, June 2013.
  59. Neeti Wagle* and Eric W. Frew. “Online Evaluation of Communication Models Derived via Transfer Learning” Wireless Networking for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (WiUAV ‘12), Anaheim, CA, Dec. 2012.
  60. Holly Borowski* and Eric W. Frew. "An Evaluation of Path Planners for Guidance With Vision Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping." In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, August, 2012.
  61. Eric W. Frew and Dale Lawrence. “Tracking Expanding Star Curves Using Guidance Vector Fields.” In Proceedings 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
  62. Neeti Wagle* and Eric W. Frew. “Transfer Learning for Dynamic RF Environments.” In Proceedings 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
  63. Anthony Carfang* and Eric W. Frew. “Real-Time Estimation of Wireless Ground-to-Air Communication Parameters.” International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium, Maui, Hawaii, Jan/Feb, 2012.
  64. Neeti Wagle* and Eric W. Frew. “Spatio-temporal Characterization of Airborne Radio Frequency Environments.” Wireless Networking for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (GC'11 Workshop - Wi-UAV), Houston, TX, Dec. 2011.
  65. Maciej Stachura* and Eric W. Frew. “WiFi Localization Experiments with an Unmanned Aircraft.” In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Portland, OR, August 2011.
  66. Brian Argrow, Eric Frew, Jack Elston*, Maciej Stachura*, Jason Roadman, Adam Houston, and Jamie Lahowetz. “The Tempest UAS: The VORTEX2 Supercell Thunderstorm Penetrator.” In AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, St. Louis, MS, March 2011.
  67. Jack Elston*, Maciej Stachura*, Brian Argrow, Eric Frew, and Cory Dixon*. “Guidelines and Best Practices for FAA Certificate of Authorization Applications for Small Unmanned Aircraft.” In AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, St. Louis, MS, March 2011, 10 pages.
  68. Jack Elston*, Brian Argrow, Adam Houston, and Eric Frew. “Design and Validation of a System for Targeted Observations of Pre-Tornadic Supercells Using Unmanned Aircraft.” In 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010, 6 pages.
  69. Maciej Stachura* and Eric W. Frew. “Cooperative Target Localization with a Communication Aware Active Sensor Network.” In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2010, 15 pages.
  70. Anthony J. Carfang*, Eric W. Frew, and Timothy X Brown. “Improved Delay-Tolerant Communication by Considering Radio Propagation in Planning Data Ferry Navigation.” In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2010, 14 pages.
  71. Neeti Wagle* and Eric W. Frew. “A Particle Filter Approach to WiFi Target Localization.” In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2010, 12 pages.
  72. Jack Elston*, Brian Argrow, Eric W. Frew, and Adam Houston. “Evaluation of UAS Concepts of Operation for Severe Storm Penetration using Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations.” In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2010, 15 pages.
  73. Eric W. Frew and Brian Argrow. “Embedded Reasoning for Atmospheric Science Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems.” In AAAI 2010 Spring Symposium on Embedded Reasoning: Intelligence in Embedded Systems, Palo Alto, CA, March 2010, 5 pages.
  74. Eric W. Frew, Cory Dixon*, Jack Elston*, and Maciej Stachura*. “Active Sensing by Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Realistic Communication Environments.” IFAC Workshop on Networked Robotics, Golden, CO, October 2009, 6 pages.
  75. Jack Elston* and Eric W. Frew. “Reduction of Computational Complexity for Guidance of Unmanned Aircraft through Strong Wind Fields.” In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Chicago, IL, August 2009, 6 pages.
  76. Maciej Stachura*, Anthony Carfang*, and Eric W. Frew. “Cooperative Target Tracking with a Communication Limited Active Sensor Network.” International Workshop on Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks, Marina Del Rey, CA, June 2009, 6 pages.
  77. Eric W. Frew.  “Providing Quality of Service of Information through Mobility.” In Proceedings 2009 American Control Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2009, pp. 2160-2165.
  78. Eric W. Frew.  “Combining Area Patrol, Perimeter Surveillance, and Target Tracking Using Ordered Upwind Methods.”  In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009, pp. 3123-3128.
  79. Jason Durrie*, Tristan Gerritsen*, Eric W. Frew, and Stephen Pledgie.  “Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation on an Uncertain Map Using a Particle Filter.”  In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009, pp. 4189-4194.
  80. Jack Elston*, Maciej Stachura*, Eric W. Frew, and Ute C. Herzfeld.  “Toward Model Free Atmospheric Sensing by Heterogeneous Aerial Robot Networks in Strong Wind Fields.”  In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009, pp. 3090-3095.
  81. Eric W. Frew. “Approximating Information Content for Active Sensing Tasks Using the Unscented Transform.” In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, Sept. 2008, pp. 2559-64.
  82. Jack Elston* and Eric W. Frew. “Unmanned Aircraft Guidance for Penetration of Pre-Tornadic Storms.” In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Honolulu, HI, August 2008, 14 pages.
  83. Eric W. Frew, Tristan Gerritsen*, Stephen Pledgie, Chris Brinton, Shivang Patel, and Bonnie Schwartz. “Vision-Based Navigation for Airfield Surface Operation.” In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Honolulu, HI, August 2008, pp. 4189-94.
  84. Brian Argrow, Elizabeth Weatherhead, and Eric W. Frew. “Real-Time Participant Feedback from the Symposium for Civilian Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems.” In International Symposium on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Orlando, FL, June 2008, 13 pages.
  85. Eric W. Frew and Timothy X. Brown. “Airborne Communication Networks for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems.” In International Symposium on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Orlando, FL, June 2008, 17 pages.
  86. Eric W. Frew and Jack Elston*.  “Target Assignment for Integrated Search and Tracking by Active Robot Networks.”  In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, May 2008, pp. 2354-2359.
  87. Jack Elston* and Eric W. Frew.  “Hierarchical Distributed Control for Search and Tracking by Heterogeneous Aerial Robot Networks.”  In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, May 2008, pp. 170-175.
  88. Cory Dixon* and Eric W. Frew. “Maintaining Optimal Communication Chains in Robotic Sensor Networks using Mobility Control.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (Robocomm), Athens, Greece, October 2007, 8 pages.
  89. Eric W. Frew. “Information-Theoretic Integration of Sensing and Communication for Active Robot Networks.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (Robocomm), Athens, Greece, October 2007, 8 pages.
  90. Eric W. Frew, Jack Langelaan, and Maciej Stachura*. “Adaptive Planning Horizon Based on Information Velocity for Vision-Based Navigation.” Invited to AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Hilton Head, SC, August 2007, pp. 3822-3841.
  91. Eric W. Frew. “Sensitivity of Cooperative Geolocalization to Orbit Coordination.” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Hilton Head, SC, August 2007, pp. 3869-3892.
  92. Dale A. Lawrence, Eric. W. Frew, and William J. Pisano, “Lyapunov Vector Fields for Autonomous UAV Flight Control” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Hilton Head, SC, August 2007, pp. 78-99.
  93. Cory Dixon* and Eric W. Frew. “Cooperative Electronic Chaining Using Small Unmanned Aircraft”. In AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, Rohnert Park, CA, May 2007, pp. 339-346.
  94. Jack Elston* and Eric W. Frew. “Net-centric Cooperative Tracking of Moving Targets.” In AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, Rohnert Park, CA, May 2007, pp. 1931-1938.
  95. Eric W. Frew, Dale A. Lawrence, Cory Dixon*, Jack Elston*, and William J. Pisano. “Lyapunov Guidance Vector Fields for Unmanned Aircraft Applications.” Invited to Proceedings 2007 American Control Conference, New York, NY, June 2007, pp. 371-376.
  96. Eric W. Frew.  “Cooperative Stand-off Tracking of Uncertain Moving Targets using Active Robot Networks.”  Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy, April 2007, pp. 3277 - 3282.
  97. Eric W. Frew. ”Receding Horizon Control under Uncertainty Using Optimal Input Design and the Unscented Transform.” In 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, December 2006, 6 pages.
  98. Cory Dixon* and Eric W. Frew. ”Controlling the Mobility of Network Nodes using Decentralized Extremum Seeking.” In 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, December 2006, pp. 1291-1296.
  99. Cory Dixon*, Dan Henkel, Eric W. Frew, and Timothy X. Brown. “Phase Transitions for Controlled Mobility in Wireless Ad hoc Networks.” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Keystone, CO, August 2006, pp. 3346-3356.
  100. Cory Dixon* and Eric W. Frew. “Maintaining a Linked Network Chain Utilizing Decentralized Mobility Control.” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Keystone, CO, August 2006, pp. 3338-3345.
  101. Jack Elston*, Eric W. Frew, and Brian Argrow. “Networked UAV Communication, Command, and Control.” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Keystone, CO, August 2006, pp. 3357-3365.
  102. Eric W. Frew, Jack Langelaan, and Sungmoon Joo. “Adaptive Receding Horizon Control for Vision-Based Navigation of Small Unmanned Aircraft.” Invited to Proceedings 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 2006, pp. 2160-2165.
  103. Eric W. Frew. “Comparison of Lateral Controllers for Following Linear Structures Using Computer Vision.” Invited to Proceedings 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 2006, pp. 2154-2159.
  104. Eric W. Frew, Tim X. Brown, Cory Dixon*, and Dan Henkel. “Establishment and Maintenance of a Delay Tolerant Network through Decentralized Mobility Control.” Invited to IEEE International Conference On Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 2006, pp. 584-589.
  105. Cory Dixon*, Eric W. Frew, Brian Argrow. “Electronic Leashing of an Unmanned Aircraft to a Radio Source.”  44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, December 2005, pp. 3560-3565.
  106. Eric W. Frew, Cory Dixon*, Brian Argrow, and Timothy Brown. “Radio Source Localization by a Cooperating UAV Team.” Invited to AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, Arlington, VA, September 2005, pp. 10-20.
  107. Cory Dixon*, Eric Frew, and Brian Argrow. “Radio Leashing Unmanned Aircraft.” AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, Arlington, VA, September 2005, pp. 1093-1102.
  108. Jack Elston*, Brian Argrow, and Eric Frew. “A Distributed Avionics Package for Small UAVs.” AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, Arlington, VA, September 2005, pp. 733-742.
  109. Eric W. Frew. “Receding Time Horizon Control Using Random Search for UAV Navigation with Passive, Non-cooperative Sensing.” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, August 2005, pp. 553-565.
  110. Eric W. Frew and Dale A. Lawrence. “Cooperative Stand-off Tracking of Moving Targets by a Team of Autonomous Aircraft.” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, August 2005, pp. 4885-4895.
  111. Eric W. Frew and Raja Sengupta. “Obstacle Avoidance with Sensor Uncertainty for Small Unmanned Aircraft.” In 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 2004, pp. 614-619.
  112. Eric Frew, Xiao Xiao, Stephen Spry, Tim McGee, ZuWhan Kim, Jack Tisdale, Raja Sengupta, and  J. Karl Hedrick. “Flight Demonstrations of Self-Directed Collaborative Navigation of Small Unmanned Aircraft.” AIAA 3rd Unmanned Unlimited Technical Conference, Workshop, & Exhibit, Chicago, IL, September 2004, 14 pages.
  113. Eric Frew, Tim McGee, ZuWhan Kim, Xiao Xiao, Stephen Jackson, Michael Morimoto, Sivakumar Rathinam, Jose Padial, and Raja Sengupta. “Vision-Based Road Following Using a Small Autonomous Aircraft.” In Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2004, pp. 3006-3015.
  114. Christopher M. Clark, Eric W. Frew, Henry L. Jones, and Stephen M. Rock. “An Integrated System for Command and Control of Cooperative Robotic Systems”, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Portugal, June, 2003, pp. 459-464.
  115. Eric W. Frew and Stephen M. Rock.  “Trajectory Generation for Monocular Vision-Based Tracking of a Constant Velocity Target.”  In Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2003, pp. 461-465.
  116. Andreas Huster, Eric W. Frew, and Stephen M. Rock.  “Relative Position Estimation for AUVs by Fusing Bearing and Inertial Rate Sensor Measurements.”  In Proceedings of the Oceans 2002 Conference, Biloxi, MS, October 2002, pp. 1857-1864.
  117. Eric W. Frew and Stephen M. Rock.  “Exploratory Motion Generation for Monocular Vision-Based Target Localization.”  In Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2002, 7:3633-3643.
  118. Henry L. Jones, Eric W. Frew, Bruce R. Woodley, and Stephen M. Rock.  "Human-Robot Interaction for Field Operation of an Autonomous Helicopter."  In Proc. SPIE, Mobile Robots XIII and Intelligent Transportation Systems, Boston MA, November 1998, 3525:244-252.
  119. Steve M. Rock, Eric W. Frew, Henry L. Jones, Bruce Woodley, and Ed LeMaster.  "Combined CDGPS and Vision-Based Control of a Small Autonomous Helicopter."  In Proceedings 1998 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, June 1998, 2:694-698.
  120. Bruce Woodley, Henry Jones, Eric W. Frew, Ed LeMaster, and Dr. Stephen Rock.  "A Contestant in the 1997 International Aerial Robotics Competition. Aerospace Robotics Laboratory Stanford University."  In AUVSI '97 Proceedings, Orlando FL, July 1997, 8 pages.
  121. Bruce Woodley, Hank Jones, Eric Frew, Ed LeMaster, and Dr. Stephen Rock.  “A Contestant in the 1996 International Aerial Robotics Competition.”  In AUVSI '96 Proceedings, Orlando FL, July 1996, pp. 939-946.
  122. Bruce Woodley, Henry L. Jones, Ed LeMaster, Eric W. Frew, and Dr. Stephen M. Rock.  "Carrier Phase GPS and Computer Vision for the Control of an Autonomous Helicopter."  In Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation GPS-96 Conference, Kansas City MO, September 1996, pp. 461-465.