Girard_UM2Anouck Girard

 

Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering

1320 Beal Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

 

Office: 3049 FXB Building

Phone: (734) 647-4692
Fax (unsecured): (734) 763-0578


Email:

 

 

 

 

 

Upcoming Travel

The best way to reach me during travel is by email.

GNC 2009 August 10-14, 2009 (Chicago)

CDC 2009 December 2009 (Shanghai)

 

Fall 2009 Schedule

 

Teaching

AE345, Flight Dynamics and Control, TuTh 12:30-2pm

Office Hours TBD

 

 

Previous classes

 

  AE345, Flight Dynamics and Control, UM, Fall 2007, Fall 2008 

  AE483, Space Systems Design, UM, Winter 2007, Winter 2008

  AE740 Section 2, Autonomous Aerial Vehicles: Cooperation and Control, UM, Fall 2006,

  AE740, Advanced FDC, UM, Winter 2009

  MECE E3410 Engineering Design, Columbia University, Spring 2005, Spring 2006

  EEME E6612 Control of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, Columbia University, Fall 2005

ME 134 Automatic Control Systems, UC Berkeley, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004

 

 

Research

Students

Current graduate students

1.     Baro Huyn

2.     Justin Jackson

3.     Christopher Orlowski

4.     Johnhenri Richarson

5.     Mariam Faied Abdel Moniem (Visiting Scholar)

6.     Ricardo Bencatel (Visiting Scholar)

 

Previous doctoral students

1.     ZhiBo Zheng

2.     Andrew Klesh

 

 

Journal Papers

 

01.  W. Wang, S. Lafortune, F. Lin, and A. R. Girard, Minimization of Dynamic Sensor Activation in Discrete Event Systems for the Purpose of Control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Accepted 2009.

02.  M. Faied, I. Assanein and A. Girard, UAVs Dynamic Mission Management in Adversarial Environments, IJAE/107214, International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Accepted, 2009.

03.  H.J. Palanthandalam-Madapusi, A. Girard, and D.S. Bernstein, Wind-field Reconstruction From Flight Data Using an Unbiased Minimum-variance Unscented Filter, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control, Special Issue on Measurement & Estimation for Unmanned Navigation, Accepted, 2009.

04.  S.C. Spry and A.R. Girard, Gyroscopic Stabilization of Unstable Vehicles: Configurations, Dynamics and Control, Accepted for Publication, Vehicle System Dynamics, 2008.

05.  A.R. Girard, A.S. Howell and J.K. Hedrick, Hybrid Supervisory Control for Real-Time Embedded Bus Rapid Transit Applications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 54, No. 5, September 2005, pp. 1684-1696.

06.  A.R. Girard, S.C. Spry and J.K. Hedrick, Real-Time Embedded Hybrid Control Software for Intelligent Cruise Control Applications, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 22-28.

07.  A.R. Girard, J. Sousa and J.K. Hedrick, A Selection of Recent Advances in Networked Vehicle Systems, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I (Journal of Systems and Control Engineering), v 219, n I1, Feb. 2005, p 1-14 (Invited).

08.  A.R. Girard and J.K. Hedrick, Formation Control of Multiple Vehicles using Dynamic Surface Control and Hybrid Systems, International Journal of Control, 2003, Vol. 76, No. 9/10, pp. 913-923 (Invited).

09.  A.R. Girard, D.M. Empey, S.C. Spry, J.K. Hedrick and W.C. Webster, An Experimental Testbed for Mobile Offshore Base Control Concepts, Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 2003, Vol. 7, pp. 109-118.

10.  A.R. Girard, J. Sousa and J.K. Hedrick, A Hierarchical Control Architecture for the Mobile Offshore Base, Marine Structures Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4-5, July 2000, pp.459-476.

 

 

 

Current Erdos Number: 5