Eric Butcher

Chapters

• Butcher, E., Dabiri, A., & Nazari, M. (2017). Stability and Control of Fractional Periodic Time-Delayed Systems. In Time Delay Systems: Theory, Numerics, Applications, and Experiments (Advances in Delays and Dynamics Vol. 7)(pp 107-126). New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53426-8

Journals/Publications

• Maadani, M., & Butcher, E. (2022). Consensus Control of Rigid Body Spacecraft in Orbital Relative Motion using TSE(3) and Exponential Coordinates. Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 69, 801-828. doi:doi: 10.1007/s40295-022-00322-2
• Maadani, M., & Butcher, E. (2022). Pose Consensus Control of Multi-Agent Rigid Body Systems with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Communication Delays. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 32(6), 3714-3746. doi:10.1002/rnc.5992
• Mathavaraj, S., & Butcher, E. (2022). SE(3)-Constrained Extended Kalman Filtering for Rigid Body Pose Estimation. Transactions of Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 58, 2482-2492. doi:10.1109/TAES.2021.3139291
• Maadani, M., & Butcher, E. (2021). 6-DOF Consensus Control of Multi-Agent Rigid Body Systems using Rotation Matrices. International Journal of Control. doi:10.1080/00207179.2021.1928291
• Maadani, M., & Butcher, E. (2021). Consensus Stability in Multi-Agent Systems with Periodically Switched Communication Topology using Floquet Theory. Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 43(5), 1239–1254. doi:10.1177/0142331220969055
• Malladi, B., Sanfelice, R., & Butcher, E. (2021). Robust Hybrid Supervisory Control for Spacecraft Close Proximity Missions. Annual Reviews in Control, 52, 316-329. doi:doi: 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2021.11.001
• Mathavaraj, S., & Butcher, E. (2022). SE(3)-Constrained Extended Kalman Filtering for Rigid Body Pose Estimation. Transactions of Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 58, 2482-2492. doi:10.1109/TAES.2021.3139291
• Memon, M., Nazari, M., Seo, D., & Butcher, E. (2021). Fuel Efficiency of Fully- and Under-Constrained Coulomb Formations in Slightly Elliptic Reference Orbits,. Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 57, 4171-4187. doi:10.1109/TAES.2021.3090920
• Malladi, B., Butcher, E., & Sanfelice, R. (2020). Rigid Body Pose Hybrid Control Using Dual Quaternions: Global Asymptotic Stabilization and Robustness. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, 43(9), 1631-1641. doi:10.2514/1.G004621
• Poursina, M., & Butcher, E. (2019). Accurate Electrostatic Force and Moment Approximations for Coulomb Charged Spacecraft Based on Center of Charge. Journal of Astronautical Sciences, 67, 829-862. doi:doi: 0.1007/s40295-019-00186-z
• Burnett, E., Sinclair, A., & Butcher, E. (2019). Coordinate-Invariant Linear Quadratic Control. Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 19(1). doi:doi: 10.1002/pamm.201900073
• Dabiri, A., & Butcher, E. (2019). Optimal Observer-Based Feedback Control for Linear Fractional-Order Systems with Constant or Periodic Coefficients. Journal of Vibration and Control, 25, 1379-1392. doi:10.1177/1077546318822370
• Dogan, K., Gruenwald, B., Yucelen, T., Muse, J., & Butcher, E. (2019). Distributed Adaptive Control and Stability Verification for Linear Multiagent Systems with Heterogeneous Actuator Dynamics and System Uncertainties. International Journal of Control, 92, 2620-2638. doi:10.1080/00207179.2018.1454606
• Samiei, E., Nazari, M., Butcher, E., & Sanyal, A. (2019). Robust Stochastic Stabilization of Attitude Motion. International Journal of Dynamics and Control, 7, 619–635. doi:10.1007/s40435-018-0456-5
• Wang, J., Butcher, E., & Lovell, A. (2019). Ambiguous Orbits in Elliptic Chief Spacecraft Relative Orbit Estimation with Range-Only Measurements. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 56, 708–724. doi:10.2514/1.A34083

Proceedings Publications

• Butcher, E. (2022). Consensus and Balanced Configurations on the Circle with Ring Topology and Heterogeneous Input Delays. In 17th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems.
• Butcher, E., & Sinclair, A. (2022). Equivalence and Calibration of Euler Angles with Less Nonlinear Attitude Parameterizations. In AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
• Maadani, M., & Butcher, E. (2022). PID Pose Consensus Control of a Multi-Agent Rigid Body System using Exponential Coordinates. In AIAA SciTech.
• Maadani, M., Butcher, E., Yucelen, T., & Arabi, E. (2022, Jan). Prescribed-Time Consensus Control of Rigid Body Pose. In AIAA SciTech.
• Nazari, M., Canales, D., McCann, B., Butcher, E., & Howell, K. (2022). Full N-Body Problem in the Geometric Mechanics Framework and its Reduction to Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem. In AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
• Norrix, S., Butcher, E., & Sinclair, A. (2022). Calibrated Kalman Filtering in Relative Orbit Estimation. In AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
• Taneja, L., & Butcher, E. (2022). Design Considerations for Attitude Consensus Control of Two Flexible Spacecraft. In AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
• Butcher, E., & Maadani, M. (2021, Aug). Modified Nonlinear Morse-Lyapunov Attitude Control. In AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
• Butcher, E., & Wenn, C. (2021, Jan). Lyapunov-Based Control of Kinematically Coupled Close-Proximity Spacecraft Feature Point Dynamics,. In AAS Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting.
• Maadani, M., & Butcher, E. (2021, Jan.). Attitude Consensus Control of a Rigid Body Multi-Vehicle System with Heterogeneous Communication Delays. In AIAA GNC Conference.
• Sinclair, A., & Butcher, E. (2021). Equivalence of Linearized Approximations for Overparameterized Representations of Dynamic Systems. In AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
• Butcher, E., Bire, A., & Sinclair, A. (2020, Aug.). Calibrated Approximations of Error Kinematics for Attitude Parameterizations. In AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
• Koru, A., Yucelen, T., Sarsilmaz, S. B., Butcher, E., & Maadani, M. (2020, Jan). Adaptive Consensus Control of Rigid Body Attitude Motion using Rotation Matrices. In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference.
• Maadani, M., & Butcher, E. (2020, Aug.). Decentralized 6-DOF Consensus Control in Orbital Relative Motion with Heterogeneous Communication Delays using Rotation Matrices. In AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
• Maadani, M., Butcher, E., & Sanyal, A. (2020, July). Finite-Time Attitude Consensus Control of a Multi-Agent Rigid Body System. In American Control Conference.

Poster Presentations

• Butcher, E., & Maadani, M. (2019, Nov). Consensus Control in Rigid-Body Multi-Vehicle Systems. ASME IMECE. SLC: ASME.
• Butcher, E. A., Bobrenkov, O., Torkamani, S., Nazari, M., & Samiei, E. (2014, July 3-5). Stability, Estimation, and Control in Stochastic Delayed Systems. Investigating Dynamics in Engineering and Applied Science (IDEAS). Badapest, Hungary.

Presentations

• Butcher, E. (2021, Nov). Morse-Lyapunov Attitude Control: 6-DOF Relative Motion and Rigid Body Consensus Control. seminar for University of Minnesota Dept of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics.
• Butcher, E. (2020, April). Introduction to Optimal Control, Time Delay, and Fractional Order Systems. UA Applied Mathematics. Applied Mathematics: Applied Mathematics.
• Butcher, E. (2020, Jan). Morse-Lyapunov-Based Decentralized Consensus Control of Rigid Body Spacecraft in Orbital Relative Motion. Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology. Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology.
• Butcher, E. (2020, Jan). Research in the Autonomous Space Vehicles and Astrodynamics Laboratory. Sampoerna University. Sampoerna University.
• Butcher, E. (2020, June). Beyond the HCW Equations: Higher Order Models, Solutions, and Observability. Rangers Symposium. AFRL, Albuquerque: AFRL.
• Butcher, E. (2020, Sept). Beyond the HCW Equations: Higher Order Models, Solutions, and Observability. AME seminarUA AME.
• Butcher, E. (2019, Dec). Stability of Parametrically Excited, Time-Delayed, Fractional Order Systems. Amrita University. Amrita University.
• Butcher, E. (2019, Dec). Strategies in Engineering Research. Keynote Address - 9th International Symposium on Embedded Computing and System Design. Amrita University.
• Butcher, E. (2018, April). Rigid Body Spacecraft Consensus Control and Estimation. RTG seminar, Applied Mathematics, UA.
• Butcher, E. (2018, Jan). Rigid Body Vehicle Modelling using Geometric Mechanics and Multi-Vehicle Consensus Control. Workshop on Consensus Control in Multivehicle Systems, University of South Florida.
• Butcher, E. (2017, February). Autonomous Space Vehicles: Research at the Intersection of Controls, Dynamical Systems, and Nonlinear Astrodynamics. invited talk. UA Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Butcher, E. (2017, January). Research in the Autonomous Space Vehicles and Astrodynamics (ASVA) Laboratory. University of Arizona Workshop on Space Object Behavioral Sciences. Biosphere 2.
• Butcher, E. (2017, June). Chaos Control in Fractional-Order Systems using Fractional Chebyshev Collocation Method. extended abstract for 9th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference. Budapest.
• Butcher, E. (2017, June). Stability and Control of the Fractional Damped Delayed Mathieu Equation. extended abstract for 9th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference. Budapest.
• Butcher, E. (2017, March). Autonomous Space Vehicles: Recent Research in Spacecraft Relative Motion, Attitude Control, and Nonlinear Astrodynamics. invited talk. Ames, IA: Iowa State University.

Others

• Butcher, E. (2019, Sep). In Memoriam: Subhash C. Sinha. ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 14(9), 090101 and ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 141, 050101-1.