Naval Postgraduate School

Publications

Kim, J. and Agrawal, B "Automatic mass Balancing of Air-Bearing based Three-Axis Rotational Spacecraft Simulator," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 32, No. 3, May-June 2009, pp. 1005-1017.
Yoon, H. and Agrawal, B. N., "Novel Expressions of Equations of Relative Motion and Control in Keplerian Orbits," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 32, No. 2, March-April 2009, pp. 664-669.
Beerer, M. J., Yoon, H., and Agrawal, B., "Adaptive Filter Techniques for Optical Beam Jitter Control," SPIE: Acquisition, Pointing, and Laser System Technologies XXIII, Orlando, Florida, April 2009.
Agrawal, B. and Martinez, T., "Optical Beam Control Testbeds," AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Aug. 18-21, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2008.
Yoon, H. and Agrawal, B. N., "Adaptive Control of Uncertain Hamiltonian Multi-Input Multi-Output Systems: with Application to Spacecraft Control," American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington June 11-13, 2008.
Yoon, H. and Agrawal, B. N., "Adaptive Control of Uncertain Hamiltonian Multi-Input Multi-Output Systems: with Application to Spacecraft Control," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, accepted for publication.
Allen, M., Kim, J., and Agrawal, B., "Control of a Deformable Mirror Subject to Structural Disturbance," SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, Florida, March 16-20, 2008.
Watkins, R. and Agrawal, B. "Use of an Least Mean Squares Filter in the Control of Optical Beam Jitter", AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Vol. 30, Number 4, July-August 2007, pp. 1116-1122.
Kim, J., Sands, T., and Agrawal, B. "Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing Technology Development for Bifocal Relay Mirror Spacecraft," 2007 SPIE Acquisition, Tracking, Pointing and Laser Systems Technologies XXI, Defense & Security Symposium, Orlando, Florida, April 9-13, 2007.
Sands, T., Kim, J. J., and Agrawal, B., "2H Singularity-Free Momentum Generation with Non-Redundant Single Gimbaled Control Moment Gyroscopes," 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, December 2006.
Kim, J. J. and Agrawal, B., "System Identification and Automatic Mass Balancing of Ground-Based Three-Axis Spacecraft Simulator," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Keystone, Colorado, August 2006.
Kim, J. and Agrawal, B. "Experiments on Jerk-Limited Slew Maneuvers of a Flexible Spacecraft", AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, August 21-24, 2006.
Lau, J., Joshi, S., Agrawal, B., and Kim, J., "Investigation of Periodic Disturbance Identification and Rejection in Spacecraft," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 29, No.4, July-August 2006, pp. 792-798.
Kim, J. and Agrawal, B., "Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing of Bifocal Relay Mirror Spacecraft," Proceedings of Beam Control Conference, Directed Energy Professional Society, Monterey, CA, March 21-24, 2006.
Sugathevan, S. and Agrawal, B. "Optical Laser Pointing and Jitter Suppression using Adaptive and Feedback Control Methods," Proceedings of Beam Control Conference, Directed Energy Professional Society, Monterey, CA, March 21-24, 2006.
Sugathevan, S. and Agrawal, B. "Broadband Optical Jitter Attenuation using State and Disturbance Feedback," IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, 2006.
Agrawal, B., "Applications of MEMS Technologies for Nanosatellites," Proceedings of 13th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Delhi, India, December 13-17, 2005.
Agrawal, B., "Active Vibration Control of Spacecraft Optical Payloads," Proceedings of 12th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Lisbon, Portugal, July 10-15, 2005.
Agrawal, B., "Spacecraft Design Program at the Naval Postgraduate School," Proceedings of 2005 Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, Portland, Oregon, June 12-15, 2005.
J. Lau, S. Joshi, B. Agrawal, and J. Kim, "Disturbance Filtering and Identification on the Naval Postgraduate School 3-Axis Spacecraft Simulator," Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Francisco, California, August 2005.
Agrawal, B. and Chen, H., "Algorithms for Active Vibration Isolation on Spacecraft," Journal of Smart Materials and Structures, Vol 13, 2004, pp 873-880.
M. Romano, B. N. Agrawal, "Attitude Dynamics/Control of Dual-Body Spacecraft with Variable-Speed Control Moment Gyros," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 513-525, July-August 2004.
Agrawal, B. N., Kim, J.-W., Romano, M., "Attitude Control and Determination of the NPS Bifocal Mirror Testbed," presented at the 55th International Astronautical Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October, 2004, IAC paper 04-A.4.09.
Kim, J.-W., Cristi, R., Agrawal, B. N., "Attitude Determination for NPS Three-Axis Spacecraft Simulator," presented at the 2004 AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference and Exhibit, Providence, Rhode Island, August, 2004, AIAA-21287.
M. Romano, B.N. Agrawal, Attitude Dynamics and Control of a Dual-Body Spacecraft using Variable-Speed Control Moment Gyros, Dynamics and control of System and Structure in Space, Riomaggiore, Italy, July 2004.
Watkins, R. J., Agrawal, B.N., Shin, Y.S., and Chen, C., "Jitter Control of Space and Airborne Laser Beams",22nd AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference, Monterey, CA, 9-12 May, 2004.
Chen H., Hospodar Jr., E., and Agrawal, B., "Development of a Hexapod Laser –based Metrology Systems for a Finer Optical Beam Control, " AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference, Monterey, CA, 9-12 May, 2004.
Watkins, R.J., Chen, H.J., Agrawal, B.N., Shin, Y.S., "Optical Beam Jitter Control," Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Lasers and Applications in Science and Technology, SPIE paper 5338-20, January 2004.
Romano, M.,.Agrawal,B., "Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing Control of the Bifocal Relay Mirror Spacecraft," Acta Astronautica, Vol.53, No.4, 2003, pp. 509-519.
Agrawal, B., Romano,M, and Martinez ,T., Three axis attitude control simulators for bifocal relay mirror spacecraft, AAS 03-268, Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol.115, 2003.
Romano, M.,Agrawal, B.,Use of variable speed control moment gyros for a fine pointing dual-line-of-sight-spacecraft, AAS 03-041, Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol.113, 2003.
Agrawal, B. and Tomlin, S.,"Applications of Nanosatellite Formation Constellations’" Proceedings of Twelfth International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Chennai, India, December 16-20, 2003.
Watkins, R., Chen, H., Agrawal, B., Shin, Y. "Optical Beam Jitter Control," Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the SPIE.
Chen, H., Bishop, R., and Agrawal, B., "Payload Pointing and Active Vibration Isolation Using a Hexapod," AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, Montana, August 3-7, 2003.
Agrawal, B., Romano, M., and Martinez, T, "Three-Axis Attitude Simulators for Bifocal Relay Mirror Spacecraft," Paper AAS 03-268, John L. Junkins Astrodynamics Symposium, College Station, Texas, 23-24 May 2003.
Chen, H., Bishop, R. and Agrawal, B. "Payload Pointing and Active Vibration Isolation Using Hexapod Platforms," 44th AIAA/ASME//ASCE/AHS Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Norfolk, Virginia, 7-10 April, 2003.
Agrawal, B., "Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing of Bifocal Relay Spacecraft," 13th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Ponce, Puerto Rico, February 9-12, 2003.
Romano, M. and Agrawal, B., "Studies on the use of variable speed control moment gyros for a fine pointing dual-line-of-sight-spacecraft", 2003 AAS Guidance Control Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado, February 2003.
Romano, M. and Agrawal, B. " Evaluation of a gyroless spacecraft attitude estimation and control concept by numerical simulation and ground based experimentation", 5th International ESA Conference on Guidance Navigation and Control Systems, Frascati, Italy, October 2002.
Romano, M. and Agrawal, B. "Acquisition, tracking and pointing control of the Bifocal Relay Mirror Spacecraft", IAC-02-A.4.05, 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Houston, USA, October 2002.
Spencer, M. Chernesky,V. Baker, J. Romano, M. "Bifocal Relay Mirror Experiments on the NPS three Axis Spacecraft Simulator", AIAA-2002-5031, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Monterey, USA, August 2002.
Romano, M. and Agrawal, B. "Tracking and Pointing of Target by a Bifocal Relay Mirror Spacecraft Using Attitude Control and Fast Steering Mirrors Tilting", AIAA-2002-5030, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Monterey, USA, August 2002.
Chen, H. and Agrawal, B. "Methods of Slewing the Spacecraft to Minimize Settling Time," AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibition, Monterey, California, August 5-8, 2002.
M. Romano, B. Agrawal, F.Bernelli-Zazzera, "Experiments on Command Shaping Control of a Manipulator with Flexible Links", AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2002, pp. 232-239.
Agrawal, B. and Palermo, W., "Angular Rate Estimation for Gyroless Satellite Attitude Control," Paper No. AIAA-2002-4463, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control, Monterey, CA August 2002.
Spencer, M., Agrawal, B., Romano, M., Brunson, R., Dillow, D. and Restaino, S. "Acquisition, Tracking, Pointing, and Line-of-Sight Control Laboratory Experiments for a Space-Based Bifocal Relay Mirror", SPIE's 16th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace Sensing, Simulation and Controls, Orlando, Florida, USA, April 2002.
Song G., Schmidt S, and Agrawal B. "Experimental Robustness Study of Positive Position Feedback Control for Active Vibration Suppression", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 25, No. 1, January-February 2002.