Marco La Civita - Publications

Thesis

Integrated Modeling and Robust Control for Full-Envelope Flight of Robotic Helicopters, M. La Civita, Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003 [BibTeX Reference]. [Flight Tests].

Patents

Vehicle trajectory tracking using mobile devices, M. La Civita, P. Costa, and E. Casado, Patent Pending US2023368677 (A1), 16 November 2023.

Aircraft mass estimation, M. La Civita, Patent Pending US2023333571 (A1), 19 October 2023.

Computer-implemented method and system for estimating impact of new operational conditions in a baseline air traffic scenario, Luis P. D'Alto, M. La Civita, J. Lopez, M. Vilaplana, US Patent 11,688,290 B2, 23 June 2023.

Computer-implemented method and system for evaluating uncertainty in trajectory prediction, E. Casado, M. Vilaplana, M. La Civita, US Patent 11,416,007 B2, 16 August 2022.

Computer-implemented method and system for estimating impact of new operational conditions in a baseline air traffic scenario, Luis P. D'Alto, M. La Civita, J. Lopez, M. Vilaplana, US Patent 10,909,863 B2, 2 February 2021.

Computer-implemented method and system for estimating impact of new operational conditions in a baseline air traffic scenario, Luis P. D'Alto, M. La Civita, J. Lopez, M. Vilaplana, US Patent 10,157,549 B2, 18 December 2018.

Secure Transmission of an Aircraft Trajectory, M. La Civita, M. Vilaplana, N. Peña, US Patent 9,786,184 B2, 10 October 2017.

Method and system for estimating aircraft course, L. D'Alto and M. La Civita, US Patent 9,366,538 B2, 14 June 2016.

Assessing Feasibility of an Aircraft Trajectory, M. La Civita and M. Vilaplana, US Patent 9,196,165 B2, 24 November 2015.

Using Aircraft Trajectory Data to Infer Aircraft Intent, M. La Civita, US Patent 8,977,484 B1, 10 March 2015.

Papers

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Quantification of Aircraft Trajectory Prediction Uncertainty using Polynomial Chaos Expansions, E. Casado, M. La Civita, M. Vilaplana, E. W. McGookin, 36th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC'17), St. Petersburg, FL, USA, 17-21 September 2017.

A New Method to Validate the Route Extension Metric against Fuel Efficiency, E. Calvo, J. M. Cordero, L. D'Alto, J. Lopez, M. Vilaplana, M. La Civita, Eleventh USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 27-29 June 2015.

AWARE: Platform for Autonomous self-deploying and operation of Wireless sensor-actuator networks cooperating with unmanned AeRial vehiclEs, A. Ollero, M. Bernard, M. La Civita, L. van Hoesel, P. J. Marron, J. Lepley, E. de Andres, IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, 2007, 27-29 September 2007, pp. 1-6.

Design and Flight Testing of a High-Bandwidth H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for a Robotic Helicopter, M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. C. Messner, T. Kanade, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 29, No. 2, March-April 2006, pp. 485-494. [BibTeX Reference].

Design and Flight Testing of a Gain-Scheduled H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for Wide-Envelope Flight of a Robotic Helicopter, M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. C. Messner, T. Kanade, Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, pp. 4195-4200, Denver, CO, 4-6 June 2003. [BibTeX Reference].

Integrated Modeling and Robust Control for Full-Envelope Flight of Robotic Helicopters, M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. C. Messner, T. Kanade, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, vol.1, pp 552- 557, Taipei, Taiwan, 14-19 September 2003. [BibTeX Reference].

Design and Flight Testing of a High-Bandwidth H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for a Robotic Helicopter, M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. C. Messner, T. Kanade, Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, AIAA-2002-4836, Montery, CA, August 2002. [BibTeX Reference].

Modeling of Small-Scale Helicopters with Integrated First-Principles and System-Identification Techniques, M. La Civita, W. C. Messner, T. Kanade, Proceedings of the 58th Forum of the American Helicopter Society, pp 2505-2516, Montreal, Canada, June 2002. [BibTeX Reference]. (Submitted to the Journal of the American Helicopter Society).

Applications of Linear Programming for Linear Systems Trajectory Generation, M. La Civita, W. Messner, The 7th Mechatronics Forum International Conference, M2000-289. September 2000.

Path Planning between Two Points for a Robot Experiencing Localization Error in Known and Unknown Environments, H. Choset, M. La Civita, J. C. Park, FSR'99 Proceedings of the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, August 1999, pp. 98-103.

Optimization of an Engine Mounting System for Vibro-Acoustic Comfort Improvement, M. La Civita, A. Sestieri, Proceedings of the 17th International Modal Analysis Conference, February 1999, pp. 1998-2004.

On Antiresonance Interpretation And Energy Concentration Along Continuous One-Dimensional Systems, M. La Civita, A. Sestieri, Proceedings of the 15th International Modal Analysis Conference, February 1997, pp. 778-784.