Ph D in Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (2019)
Publications
Estimating System State from the Actions of a Reinforcement Learning Agent AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum (2023),
Andres Enriquez Fernandez, John J. Bird.
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Agile Guidance of Fixed-Wing sUAS (2022),
C A. Hirst, John J. Bird, Christopher Reale, Eric Frew.
Progress toward an architecture for field research with autonomous fixed-wing aircraft AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum (2021),
John J. Bird, Eric Frew.
A dispersed autonomy architecture for information-gathering drone swarms 2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference (2020),
Eric W. Frew, Katherine Glasheen, C A. Hirst, John J. Bird, Brian Argrow.
A gazebo/ros-based communication-realistic simulator for networked suas 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2020),
Sangwoo Moon, John J. Bird, Steven Borenstein, Eric W. Frew.
Integrated Planning, Decision-Making, and Weather Modeling for UAS Navigating Complex Weather Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems: Third International Conference, DDDAS 2020 (2020),
John J. Bird, Katherine Glasheen, Eric W. Frew.
Optimal Speed Scheduling with Arrival Time Constraint for Solar-Augmented Aircraft Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (2020),
John J. Bird, Jack W. Langelaan.
Bounded Rationality and Risk Strategy in Thermal Soaring Technical Soaring (2019),
John J. Bird, Daniel Sazhin, Jacob W. Langelaan.
Estimating the vertical structure of weather-induced mission costs for small UAS Sensors (2019),
John J. Bird, Scott J. Richardson, Jacob W. Langelaan.
Optimal Speed Scheduling for Hybrid Solar Aircraft with Arrival Time Condition AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum (2019),
John J. Bird, Jacob W. Langelaan.
The AutoSOAR autonomous soaring aircraft part 2: Hardware implementation and flight results Journal of Field Robotics (2018),
Nathan T. Depenbusch, John J. Bird, Jacob W. Langelaan.
The AutoSOAR autonomous soaring aircraft, part 1: Autonomy algorithms Journal of Field Robotics (2018),
Nathan T. Depenbusch, John J. Bird, Jacob W. Langelaan.
The hybrid tiger: A long endurance solar/fuel cell/soaring unmanned aerial vehicle 48th power sources conference (2018),
Richard Stroman, Daniel Edwards, Phillip Jenkins, Sam Carter, Daniel Newton, Matthew Kelly, Stearns Heinzen, Trent Young, Vladimir Dobrokhodov, Jack Langelaan, John J. Bird, P A. Reinecke.
Ph D in Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (2019)
Publications
Estimating System State from the Actions of a Reinforcement Learning Agent AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum (2023),
Andres Enriquez Fernandez, John J. Bird.
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Agile Guidance of Fixed-Wing sUAS (2022),
C A. Hirst, John J. Bird, Christopher Reale, Eric Frew.
Progress toward an architecture for field research with autonomous fixed-wing aircraft AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum (2021),
John J. Bird, Eric Frew.
A dispersed autonomy architecture for information-gathering drone swarms 2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference (2020),
Eric W. Frew, Katherine Glasheen, C A. Hirst, John J. Bird, Brian Argrow.
A gazebo/ros-based communication-realistic simulator for networked suas 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2020),
Sangwoo Moon, John J. Bird, Steven Borenstein, Eric W. Frew.
