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Journal Papers
- Boone, Spencer and McMahon, Jay (2021). Variable Time-of-Flight Spacecraft Maneuver Targeting Using State Transition Tensors. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume , Issue (Under Review)
- Boone, Spencer and McMahon, Jay (2021). Orbital Guidance Using Higher-Order State Transition Tensors. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume 44, Issue 3 (10.2514/1.G005493)
- Moore, Kimberly and Courville, Sam and Kuettel, Don and others (2021). Bridge to the Stars: A Mission Concept to an Interstellar Object. Planetary and Space Science, Volume 197 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2020.105137)
- Kuettel, Don and McMahon, Jay (2021). Low-Thrust Maneuverability Using Bilinear Tangent Guidance Near Small Bodies. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume 44, Issue 7 (https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G005395)
- Kuettel, Don and McMahon, Jay (2021). Autonomous Maneuver Targeting Around Small Bodies using Continuous-Thrust Propulsion. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume , Issue (Submitted)
- Kuettel, Don and McMahon, Jay (2021). Autonomous Spacecraft Guidance around Small Bodies using Continuous-Thrust Propulsion. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume , Issue (In Preperation)
- Oguri, Kenshiro and McMahon, Jay W. (2021). Stochastic Primer Vector for Robust Low-thrust Trajectory Design under Uncertainty. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, under review
- Oguri, Kenshiro and McMahon, Jay W. (2021). Robust Spacecraft Guidance Around Small Bodies Under Uncertainty: Stochastic Optimal Control Approach. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (10.2514/1.G005426)
- Oguri, Kenshiro and Lantoine, Gregory and McMahon, Jay W. (2021). Solar Sailing Primer Vector Theory: Indirect Trajectory Optimization with Practical Mission Considerations. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, under review
- Roelke, E. and Braun, R. D. (2020). Discrete-Event Drag-Modulated Guidance Performance for Venus Aerocapture. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Volume 58, Issue 1 (10.2514/1.a34761)
- Oguri, Kenshiro and Lantoine, Gregory and Hart, William and McMahon, Jay (2020). Science orbit design with a quasi-frozen beta angle: effects of body obliquity on J2-perturbed dynamics. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Volume 132, Issue 10 (10.1007/s10569-020-09987-z)
- Oguri, Kenshiro and McMahon, Jay W. (2020). Solar Radiation Pressure–Based Orbit Control with Application to Small-Body Landing. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume 43, Issue 2 (10.2514/1.G004489)
- Dietrich, Ann B. and McMahon, Jay W. (2020). Filter Initialization with Three-Dimensional Lidar Images in Proximity to Small Bodies. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume 43, Issue 2 (10.2514/1.G004468)
- Moretto, Mark and McMahon, Jay (2020). Evolution of orbits about comets with arbitrary comae. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Volume 132, Issue 6
- Bury, Luke and McMahon, Jay (2020). The Effect of Zonal Harmonics on Dynamical Structures in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem Near the Secondary Body. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Volume 132, Issue 45 (10.1007/s10569-020-09983-3)
- Bercovici, Benjamin and Mcmahon, Jay W. (2019). Inertia Parameter Statistics of An Uncertain Small Body Shape. Icarus, Volume 328, Issue 8 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2019.02.016)
- Bercovici, Benjamin and Mcmahon, Jay W (2019). Robust Autonomous Small Body Shape Reconstruction and Relative Navigation using Range Images (Accepted). Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.G003898)
- Venigalla, Chandrakanth and Baresi, Nicola and Aziz, Jonathan D. and Bercovici, Benjamin and Brack, Daniel N. and Dahir, Andrew and {De Smet}, Stijn and Fulton, JoAnna and Pellegrino, Marielle M. and Van wal, Stefaan (2019). The Near-Earth Asteroid Characterization and Observation (NEACO) Mission to Asteroid (469219) 2016 HO3 (In Print). Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.A34268)
- Brack, Daniel N and McMahon, Jay W (2019). Modeling the Coupled Dynamics of an Asteroid with Surface Boulder Motion. Icarus
- Geeraert, Jeroen L. and McMahon, Jay W. (2018). Square-Root Unscented Schmidt–Kalman Filter. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume 41, Issue 1 (https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G002921)
- Dietrich, Ann and McMahon, Jay W (2018). Robust Orbit Determination with Flash Lidar Around Small Bodies. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume 41, Issue 10 (https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G003023)
- Bercovici, Benjamin and McMahon, Jay W. (2017). Point-Cloud Processing Using Modified Rodrigues Parameters for Relative Navigation. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume 40, Issue 12 (https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.G002787)
- Dietrich, Ann and McMahon, Jay W (2016). Orbit Determination using Flash Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) around Small Bodies. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.G000615)
- Ann Dietrich, Kathryn Davis, Jeffrey Parker (2015). Ascent trajectories from the lunar far-side to Earth --Moon L2 halo orbits. Advances in Space Research, Volume 56, Issue 11 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2015.09.030)
- Geeraert, Jeroen L and Mcmahon, Jay W (no year). Dual-Satellite Geolocation with Ephemeris Correction and Uncertainty Mapping. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Conference Proceedings
- Boone, Spencer and McMahon, Jay (2021). Optimal Maneuver Targeting Using State Transition Tensors with Variable Time-of-Flight. 31st AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting.
- Boone, Spencer and McMahon, Jay (2021). Directional State Transition Tensors for Capturing Dominant Nonlinear Dynamical Effects. Submitted to 2021 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Hermann Kaptui Sipowa and Jay W. McMahon (2021). Distributed Estimator For Spacecraft Cooperative Localization (Without GPS)
- Kuettel, Don and McMahon, Jay (2021). Initial Maneuver Targeting Around Small Bodies using Low-Thrust Propulsion. Proceedings of the 31st AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting.
- Scheeres, Daniel and McMahon, Jay and Baker, Dahlia and Kuettel, Don and Takahashi, Shota (2021). An Architecture for Autonomous Exploration of a Near Earth Object. Proceedings of the 2021 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Oscar Fuentes-Munoz, Anivid Pedros Faura and Davide Amato (2021). Effect of non-Keplerian MOID evolution on preliminary keyhole analyses. IAA Planetary Defense Conference 2021.
- Oguri, Kenshiro and McMahon, Jay W. (2021). Risk-aware Mission Design for In situ Asteroid Exploration under Uncertainty. IEEE Aerospace Conference. Big Sky, MT (Virtual)
- Moretto, Mark and McMahon, Jay (2021). Navigation at Active Comets: The Time Varying and Stochastic Coma. AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Virtual.
- Moretto, Mark and McMahon, Jay (2021). The Perturbative Effects of Gas Drag at Active Comets: Equations of Motion for the Mean Elements under Periodic Inverse-Square Perturbations. AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Virtual.
- Boone, Spencer and McMahon, Jay (2020). Rapid Local Trajectory Optimizaion Using Higher- Order State Transition Tensors and Differential Dynamic Programming. 2020 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Moore, Kimberly and Courville, Sam and Kuettel, Don and others (2020). Bridge to the Stars: A Mission Concept to an Interstellar Object. Proceedings of the 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
- Roelke, Evan and McMahon, Jay W. and Hattis, Phil D. (2020). Multi-Event Drag Modulation Aerocapture Guidance under Uncertainty. {AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference}. South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
- Anivid Pedros Faura and Jay W. McMahon (2020). Feasibility Study of Gathering Material for ISRU from an Active Comet Coma. 2020 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Oguri, Kenshiro and McMahon, Jay W (2020). Stochastic Primer Vector for Robust Impulsive Trajectory Design Under Uncertainty. AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference. South Lake Tahoe, CA (Virtual)
- Oguri, Kenshiro and McMahon, Jay W. (2020). Autonomous Guidance for Robust Achievement of Science Observations around Small Bodies. AAS Guidance, Navigation, and Control conference. Breckenridge, Colorado
- {Moretto}, M. and {McMahon}, J. (2020). The Perturbative Effects of Gas Drag at Active Comets: Equations of Motion for the Mean Elements under General Inverse-Square Perturbations. AAS/Division of Dynamical Astronomy Meeting.
- Moretto, Mark and McMahon, Jay (2020). Orbit Design to Maximize Information for Spacecraft Navigation at Active Comets. AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Virtual.
- Taralicin Deka and Hermann Kaptui Sipowa and Jay W. McMahon (2020). Closed-Loop Linearized Lambert Solution (LLS) For On-board Formation Control and Targeting. 2020 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Bury, Luke and McMahon, Jay (2020). Dynamical Barrier Preventing Low-Energy Ballistic Trajectories From Landing At High Latitudes on Europa. AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference. Lake Tahoe, CA
- Bury, Luke and Mcmahon, Jay (2020). Landing Trajectories to Moons from the Unstable Invariant Manifolds of Periodic Libration Point Orbits. AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL.
- Amato, Davide and Hume, Shayna and Grace, Benjamin and McMahon, Jay (2020). Robustifying Mars descent guidance through neural networksBreckenridge, CO, United States
- McMahon, Jay and Kuettel, Don and Mitchell, Shane and Oguri, Kenshiro and Kellaris, Nicholas and Keplinger, Christoph and Bercovici, Benjamin (2019). Area-of-Effect Softbots (AoES) for Asteroid Proximity Operations. Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference.
- Kuettel, Don and McMahon, Jay (2019). An Analysis of Low-Thrust Guidance Algorithms Around Small Bodies. Proceedings of the 29th AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting.
- Kuettel, Don and McMahon, Jay and Keplinger, Christoph and Tambornini, Jesse and Mitchell, Shane and Kellaris, Nicholas (2019). Overview of Area-of-Effect Softbot (AoES) Surface Operations on Rubble Pile Asteroids. 2019 Space Resources Roundtable.
- Kuettel, Don and McMahon, Jay (2019). Collision Avoidance Around Small Bodies Using Low- Thrust Guidance. Proceedings of the 2019 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Bercovici, Benjamin and Mcmahon, Jay W. (2019). Initial Orbit Determination About Small Bodies Using Flash Lidar And Rigid Transform Invariants. 29th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Ka'anapali, HI.
- Bercovici, Benjamin and Mcmahon, Jay W (2019). Lidar-Based Autonomous Shape Reconstruction and Navigation about Small Bodies Under Uncertainty. 42nd annual AAS Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference.
- Oguri, Kenshiro and Ono, Masahiro and McMahon, Jay W (2019). Convex Optimization over Sequential Linear Feedback Policies with Continuous-time Chance Constraints. 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). Nice, France
- Oguri, Kenshiro and McMahon, Jay W. (2019). SRP-based Orbit Control with Application to Orbit Stationkeeping at Small Bodies. AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meetings. Ka'anapali, HI
- Oguri, Kenshiro and McMahon, Jay W. (2019). SRP-based Orbit Control for Asteroid Exploration. 32nd International Symposium on Space Technology and Science. Fukui, Japan
- Oguri, Kenshiro and McMahon, Jay W. (2019). Risk-aware Trajectory Design with Continuous Thrust: Primer Vector Theory Approach. AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference. Portland, ME
- Oguri, Kenshiro and Lantoine, Gregory and Hart, Bill and McMahon, Jay W. (2019). Science Orbit Design with Frozen Beta angle: Theory and Application to Psyche mission. AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting. Ka'anapali, HI
- Oguri, Kenshiro and McMahon, Jay W. (2019). Risk-aware Trajectory Design with Impulsive Maneuvers: Convex Optimization Approach. AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference. Portland, ME
- {Moretto}, Mark and {McMahon}, Jay (2019). Dynamics and Redistribution of Large Particles in the Coma of Active Comets. EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019.
- Lauren Schlenker and Mark Moretto and David Gaylor and Richard Linares (2019). Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Satellite Rendezvous and Proximity Operations Using Random Finite Sets. 29th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Ka'anapali, HI.
- Moretto, Mark and McMahon, Jay (2019). Attitude Dependent Evolution of Orbits About Active Comets. 29th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Ka'anapali, HI.
- Bury, Luke and Mcmahon, Jay (2019). Low-Energy Trajectories As Staging Points for Landing on the Secondary Body in the Circular Restriscted Three-Body Problem. AAS Astrodynamics Specialists Conference, Maui, HI.
- Brack, Daniel N. and McMahon, Jay W. (2019). Asteroid Manipulation With Active Boulder Removal. 2019 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting.
- Brack, Daniel N. and McMahon, Jay W. (2019). Asteroid Deflection With Active Boulder Removal. 2019 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Brack, Daniel and McMahon, Jay (2019). The Dynamical Surface Environment of Tumbling Asteroids. AAS/Division of Dynamical Astronomy Meeting.
- Brack, Daniel N. and McMahon, Jay W. (2019). Effects of Momentum Transfer Deflection Efforts on Small Body Rotational State. 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC).
- Hermann Kaptui Sipowa and Jay W. McMahon (2018). Analysis of SRP-Disturbed Relative Motion Using Geometric Nonlinear Control Theory. 2020 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Hermann Kaptui Sipowa and Jay W. McMahon (2018). First Order Approximation of the Effects of Solar Radiation Pressure On Relative Motion using a Linearized Representation of Relative Orbital Elements. 2018 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Nayak, Micheal and Kuettel, Don and Stebler, Shane, and Udrea, Bogdan (2018). Dynamical Studies of N-body Gravity and Tidal Dissipation in the TRAPPIST-1 Star System. Proceedings of the 231st American Astronomical Society Meeting.
- Bercovici, Benjamin and McMahon, Jay W. (2018). Autonomous Shape Determination Using Flash-Lidar Observations and Bezier patches. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Guidance and Control Conference.
- Bercovici, Benjamin and McMahon, Jay W (2018). Inertia Parameter Statistics of An Uncertain Small Body Shape. 50th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Science.
- Bercovici, Benjamin and McMahon, J.W. (2018). Autonomous shape determination using flash-lidar observations and bezier patches. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences.
- Venigalla, Chandrakanth and Baresi, N. and Aziz, J. and Bercovici, Benjamin and Motta, G.B. and Brack, D. and {Dos Santos}, J.C. and Dahir, A. and Davis, A.B. and {De Smet}, S. and Fulton, J. and Parrish, N. and Pellegrino, M. and {Van Wal}, S. (2018). The Near-Earth Asteroid Characterization and Observation (NEACO) mission. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences.
- Bercovici, Benjamin and Dietrich, A. and McMahon, J. (2018). Autonomous shape estimation and navigation about small bodies using Lidar observations. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences.
- Bercovici, Benjamin and McMahon, Jay W. (2018). A Consistent Small Body Navigation Filter Using Flash-Lidar Data and Bezier Triangles. 2018 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Oguri, Kenshiro and McMahon, Jay W. (2018). SRP-based Orbit Control with Application to Small Body Landing. AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference. Snowbird, UT
- Moretto, Mark and McMahon, Jay (2018). On the Evolution of Orbits About Active Comets. AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Snowbird, UT.
- Bury, Luke and McMahon, Jay (2018). The Effect of Zonal Harmonics in the Circular Restricted Thre Body Problem Near the Secondary Body.pdf. AAS Astrodynamics Specialists Conference, Snowbird, UT.
- Brack, Daniel N. and McMahon, Jay W. (2018). Dynamical Behavior of an Asteroid Undergoing Material Removal. 2018 AIAA/AAS Space Flight Mechanics Meeting.
- Brack, Daniel N. and McMahon, Jay W. (2018). An Investigation of Natural Dynamical Processes on Asteroid Surfaces Using a Combined Asteroid Surface- Boulders Model. 2018 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Brack, Daniel N. and McMahon, Jay W. and Scheeres, Daniel J. and French, Andrew S. (2018). Estimation Evaluation of the Radio Science Phase of the OSIRIS-REx Mission. 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC).
- Brack, Daniel N. and McMahon, Jay W. (2018). Natural Dynamical Processes on Fast Rotating Asteroids. 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC).
- Kuettel, Don and Vanzella, Alessandro and Van den Broeck, Michael and McMahon, Jay W (2017). An Analysis of Low-Thrust Orbital Maneuvers Around Small Bodies. Proceedings of the 27th AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting.
- Bercovici, Benjamin and McMahon, Jay W. (2017). Autonomous Shape Determination Using Flash-Lidar Observations. Proceedings of the 27th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting. San Antonio
- Bercovici, Benjamin and Dietrich, Ann and McMahon, Jay W. (2017). Autonomous Shape Estimation and Navigation About Small Bodies Using Lidar Observations. Proceedings of the 2017 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference. Stevenson
- Bercovici, Benjamin and McMahon, J.W. (2017). An improved mrp-based iterative closest point-to- plane algorithm. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences.
- Bercovici, Benjamin and Dietrich, Ann and McMahon, Jay W (2017). Autonomous Shape Estimation and Navigation About Small Bodies Using Lidar Observations. Proceedings of the 2017 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference. Stevenson
- Bercovici, Benjamin and McMahon, J.W. (2017). Autonomous shape determination using flash-lidar observations. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences.
- Bercovici, Benjamin and McMahon, Jay W. (2017). An improved MRP-based Iterative Closest Point-To- Plane Algorithm. 27th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting. San Antonio
- Bercovici, Benjamin and McMahon, Jay W. (2017). Improved Shape Determination for Autonomous State Estimation. Proceedings of the 31st ISTS , Matsuyama, Japan.
- Geeraert, Jeroen L and Mcmahon, Jay W and Hesar, Siamak G (2017). Small Body Navigation and Gravity Estimation Using Angle and FDOA Observables. AIAA/AAS Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting.
- Geeraert, Jeroen L and Mcmahon, Jay W (2017). Relative Orbit Determination of Multiple Satellites Using Double Differenced Measurements. Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference.
- Dietrich, Ann and McMahon, Jay W (2017). Filter Robustness of Flash Lidar Based Navigation around Small Bodies. AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference. Stevenson, Washingtons
- Dietrich, Ann and McMahon, Jay W (2017). Orbit Determination with Least-Squares and Flash Lidar Measurements in Proximity to Small Bodies. AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting.
- Geeraert, Jeroen L. and Mcmahon, Jay W and Jones, Brandon A (2016). Orbit Determination Observability of the Dual- Satellite Geolocation System with TDOA and FDOA. AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Dietrich, Ann and McMahon, Jay W (2016). Error Sensitivies for Flash LIDAR Based Relative Navigation around Small Bodes. AAS Guidance and Control Conference. Breckenridge, CO
- Geeraert, Jeroen L. and Jones, Brandon A. and Mcmahon, Jay W. (2015). Improving Geolocation Accuracy Through Refined Satellite Ephemeris Estimation in an Ill- Conditioned. AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Geeraert, Jeroen and Nandi, Sumita (2015). Quicklook: A Testbed for an Automated Orbit Determination System using the Cassini Spacecraft. 21st Improving Space Operations Workshop.
- Dietrich, Ann and McMahon, Jay W (2015). Autonomous Observation Planning with Flash LIDAR around Small Bodies. AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference. Vail, CO
- Dietrich, Ann and McMahon, Jay W (2014). Asteroid Proximity Navigation using Flash LIDAR. AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference. San Diego, CA
Theses
- Geeraert, Jeroen (2017). Multi-Satellite Orbit Determination Using Interferometric Observables with RF Localization Applications
- Dietrich, Ann (2017). Supporting Autonomous Navigation with Flash Lidar Images in Proximity to Small Celestial Bodies
Miscellaneous
- Bercovici, Benjamin and McMahon, Jay (2019). SBGAT: The Small Body Geophysical Analysis Tool (https://github.com/bbercovici/SBGAT).