Timothy W. McLain

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1996-2023
Publications (10 Years): 17

Top Topics

Extended Kalman Filter

Top Venues

J. Aerosp. Inf. Syst.

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.

Publications

Brendon Forsgren, Ram Vasudevan, Michael Kaess, Timothy W. McLain, Joshua G. Mangelson
Group-k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k-Uniform hypergraphs for robust multi-robot map merging. CoRR (2023)
Brendon Forsgren, Kevin M. Brink, Prashant Ganesh, Timothy W. McLain
Incremental Cycle Bases for Cycle-Based Pose Graph Optimization. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 8 (2) (2023)
Alex D. Jordan, Jacob Johnson, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Offline GNSS/Camera Extrinsic Calibration Using RTK and Fiducials. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 8 (6) (2023)
Brendon Forsgren, Ram Vasudevan, Michael Kaess, Timothy W. McLain, Joshua G. Mangelson
Group-k Consistent Measurement Set Maximization for Robust Outlier Detection. IROS (2022)
Brendon Forsgren, Kevin M. Brink, Prashant Ganesh, Timothy W. McLain
Incremental cycle bases for cycle-based pose graph optimization. CoRR (2022)
Brendon Forsgren, Ram Vasudevan, Michael Kaess, Timothy W. McLain, Joshua G. Mangelson
Group-k Consistent Measurement Set Maximization for Robust Outlier Detection. CoRR (2022)
David O. Wheeler, Daniel P. Koch, James S. Jackson, Gary J. Ellingson, Paul W. Nyholm, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Relative navigation of autonomous GPS-degraded micro air vehicles. Auton. Robots 44 (5) (2020)
James Jackson, Daniel P. Koch, Trey Henrichsen, Timothy W. McLain
ROSflight: A Lean Open-Source Research Autopilot. IROS (2020)
Gary J. Ellingson, Kevin M. Brink, Timothy W. McLain
Cooperative Relative Navigation of Multiple Aircraft in Global Positioning System-Denied/Degraded Environments. J. Aerosp. Inf. Syst. 17 (8) (2020)
Daniel P. Koch, David O. Wheeler, Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain, Kevin M. Brink
Relative multiplicative extended Kalman filter for observable GPS-denied navigation. Int. J. Robotics Res. 39 (9) (2020)
James S. Jackson, Kevin M. Brink, Brendon Forsgren, David O. Wheeler, Timothy W. McLain
Direct Relative Edge Optimization, A Robust Alternative for Pose Graph Optimization. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 4 (2) (2019)
Jesse S. Wynn, Timothy W. McLain
Visual Servoing with Feed-Forward for Precision Shipboard Landing of an Autonomous Multirotor. ACC (2019)
James Jackson, Jerel Nielsen, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Improving the Robustness of Visual-Inertial Extended Kalman Filtering. ICRA (2019)
Gary J. Ellingson, Kevin M. Brink, Timothy W. McLain
Relative visual-inertial odometry for fixed-wing aircraft in GPS-denied environments. PLANS (2018)
Laith R. Sahawneh, Jared K. Wikle, A. Kaleo Roberts, Jonathan C. Spencer, Timothy W. McLain, Karl F. Warnick, Randal W. Beard
Ground-Based Sense-and-Avoid System for Small Unmanned Aircraft. J. Aerosp. Inf. Syst. 15 (8) (2018)
Jared K. Wikle, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard, Laith R. Sahawneh
Minimum Required Detection Range for Detect and Avoid of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. J. Aerosp. Inf. Syst. 14 (7) (2017)
Gary J. Ellingson, David Wingate, Timothy W. McLain
Deep visual gravity vector detection for unmanned aircraft attitude estimation. IROS (2017)
Robert C. Leishman, Timothy W. McLain
Multiplicative Extended Kalman Filter for Relative Rotorcraft Navigation. J. Aerosp. Inf. Syst. 12 (12) (2015)
Matthew E. Argyle, Jason M. Beach, Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain, Stephen Morris
Quaternion based attitude error for a tailsitter in hover flight. ACC (2014)
Robert C. Leishman, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Relative Navigation Approach for Vision-Based Aerial GPS-Denied Navigation. J. Intell. Robotic Syst. 74 (1-2) (2014)
John Macdonald, Robert C. Leishman, Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain
Analysis of an Improved IMU-Based Observer for Multirotor Helicopters. J. Intell. Robotic Syst. 74 (3-4) (2014)
Jason M. Beach, Matthew E. Argyle, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard, Stephen Morris
Tailsitter heading estimation using a magnetometer. ACC (2014)
James K. Hall, Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain
Quaternion Control for Autonomous Path Following Maneuvers. Infotech@Aerospace (2012)
Robert C. Leishman, John Macdonald, Timothy W. McLain, Randy W. Beard
Relative navigation and control of a hexacopter. ICRA (2012)
Robert C. Leishman, Jeff Ferrin, Timothy W. McLain, John Macdonald, Stephen Quebe, Randal W. Beard
Utilizing an improved rotorcraft dynamic model in state estimation. IROS (2011)
Jeff Ferrin, Robert C. Leishman, Randy W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain
Differential flatness based control of a rotorcraft for aggressive maneuvers. IROS (2011)
D. Blake Barber, Timothy W. McLain, Barrett Edwards
Vision-Based Landing of Fixed-Wing Miniature Air Vehicles. J. Aerosp. Comput. Inf. Commun. 6 (3) (2009)
Liang Sun, Randal W. Beard, Mark B. Colton, Timothy W. McLain
Dynamics and control of cable-drogue system in aerial recovery of Micro Air Vehicles based on Gauss's Principle. ACC (2009)
Nathan B. Knoebel, Timothy W. McLain
Adaptive quaternion control of a miniature tailsitter UAV. ACC (2008)
D. Blake Barber, Stephen Griffiths, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Autonomous Landing of Miniature Aerial Vehicles. J. Aerosp. Comput. Inf. Commun. 4 (5) (2007)
David Hubbard, Bryan S. Morse, Colin Theodore, Mark Tischler, Timothy W. McLain
Performance Evaluation of Vision-Based Navigation and Landing on a Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. WACV (2007)
Michael A. Goodrich, Timothy W. McLain, Jeffrey D. Anderson, Jisang Sun, Jacob W. Crandall
Managing autonomy in robot teams: observations from four experiments. HRI (2007)
Derek R. Nelson, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Experiments in Cooperative Timing for Miniature Air Vehicles. J. Aerosp. Comput. Inf. Commun. 4 (8) (2007)
Derek R. Nelson, D. Blake Barber, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Vector Field Path Following for Miniature Air Vehicles. IEEE Trans. Robotics 23 (3) (2007)
Derek R. Nelson, D. Blake Barber, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Vector field path following for small unmanned air vehicles. ACC (2006)
David W. Casbeer, Derek B. Kingston, Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain
Cooperative forest fire surveillance using a team of small unmanned air vehicles. Int. J. Syst. Sci. 37 (6) (2006)
Jason K. Howlett, Timothy W. McLain, Michael A. Goodrich
Learning Real-Time A* Path Planner for Unmanned Air Vehicle Target Sensing. J. Aerosp. Comput. Inf. Commun. 3 (3) (2006)
Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain, D. B. Nelson, Derek B. Kingston, D. Johanson
Decentralized Cooperative Aerial Surveillance Using Fixed-Wing Miniature UAVs. Proc. IEEE 94 (7) (2006)
Joshua D. Redding, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard, Clark N. Taylor
Vision-based target localization from a fixed-wing miniature air vehicle. ACC (2006)
D. Blake Barber, Joshua D. Redding, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard, Clark N. Taylor
Vision-based Target Geo-location using a Fixed-wing Miniature Air Vehicle. J. Intell. Robotic Syst. 47 (4) (2006)
Stephen Griffiths, Jeffery Saunders, Andrew Curtis, D. Blake Barber, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Maximizing miniature aerial vehicles. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 13 (3) (2006)
Wei Ren, Jisang Sun, Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain
Nonlinear tracking control for nonholonomic mobile robots with input constraints: an experimental study. ACC (2005)
Randal W. Beard, Derek B. Kingston, Morgan Quigley, Deryl Snyder, Reed Christiansen, Walt Johnson, Timothy W. McLain, Michael A. Goodrich
Autonomous Vehicle Technologies for Small Fixed-Wing UAVs. J. Aerosp. Comput. Inf. Commun. 2 (1) (2005)
Erik P. Anderson, Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain
Real-time dynamic trajectory smoothing for unmanned air vehicles. IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol. 13 (3) (2005)
David W. Casbeer, Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain, Sai-Ming Li, Raman K. Mehra
Forest fire monitoring with multiple small UAVs. ACC (2005)
Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Unmanned air vehicle testbed for cooperative control experiments. ACC (2004)
Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Cooperative path planning for timing-critical missions. ACC (2003)
Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain
Multiple UAV cooperative search under collision avoidance and limited range communication constraints. CDC (2003)
Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain, Michael A. Goodrich, Erik P. Anderson
Coordinated target assignment and intercept for unmanned air vehicles. IEEE Trans. Robotics Autom. 18 (6) (2002)
Sai-Ming Li, Jovan D. Boskovic, Sanjeev Seereeram, Ravi K. Prasanth, Jayesh Amin, Raman K. Mehra, Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain
Autonomous hierarchical control of multiple unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs). ACC (2002)
Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain, Michael A. Goodrich
Coordinated Target Assignment and Intercept for Unmanned Air Vehicles. ICRA (2002)
Timothy W. McLain, Philipp R. Chandler, Steven J. Rasmussen, Meir Pachter
Cooperative control of UAV rendezvous. ACC (2001)
Timothy W. McLain, Phillip R. Chandler, Meir Pachter
A decomposition strategy for optimal coordination of unmanned air vehicles. ACC (2000)
Richard D. Abbott, Timothy W. McLain
Validation of a synthesis technique for the optimal control of an electro-hydraulic positioning system. ACC (2000)
Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
Successive Galerkin Approximations to the Nonlinear Optimal Control of an Underwater Robotic Vehicle. ICRA (1998)
Timothy W. McLain, Stephen M. Rock
Development and Experimental Validation of an Underwater Manipulator Hydrodynamic Model. Int. J. Robotics Res. 17 (7) (1998)
Timothy W. McLain, Stephen M. Rock, Michael J. Lee
Experiments in the coordinated control of an underwater arm/vehicle system. Auton. Robots 3 (2-3) (1996)