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Stevens J; Katupitiya J, 2023, 'Hybrid Dynamic Modelling of a 3D Transformable Terrain Robot', in Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA

Gnanasekera M; Katupitiya J, 2022, 'Collision Cone Based Collision Avoidance for Hexa-Rotors', in 2022 8th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics, ICCAR 2022, pp. 22 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCAR55106.2022.9782594

Feng L; Katupitiya J, 2022, 'Dynamic Wildfire Boundary Tracking with Radial Basis Function based Guidance Law', in IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO53065.2022.9843734

Gnanasekera M; Katupitiya J, 2020, 'A time optimal reactive collision avoidance method for UAVs based on a modified collision cone approach', in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5685 - 5692, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341259

Gnanasekera M; Savkin AV; Katupitiya J, 2020, 'Range Measurements Based UAV Navigation for Intercepting Ground Targets', in 2020 6th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics, ICCAR 2020, pp. 468 - 472, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCAR49639.2020.9108013

Kayastha S; Shi L; Katupitiya J; Pearce G, 2018, 'Post-impact Motion Control of a Space Robot with Flexible Manipulator', Singapore, presented at The 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2018, Singapore, 18 November 2018 - 21 November 2018

Zhang Y; Huang J; Katupitiya J, 2018, 'Dynamics and oscillation control of helicopters carrying large-size loads', in IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM, pp. 250 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AIM.2018.8452276

Kayastha S; Katupitiya J; Pearce G, 2018, 'Control of a Space Robot with Flexible Manipulator using Generalized Decoupling Technique', Wuhan, China, presented at International Conference on Robotics and Automation Sciences, Wuhan, China, 23 June 2018 - 25 June 2018

Kayastha S; Shi L; Katupitiya JAY; Pearce GARTH, 2017, 'Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a Planar Three-link Space Manipulator', Gold Coast, presented at The 2017 Asian Control Conference, Gold Coast, 17 December 2017 - 20 December 2017

Hirayama M; Guivant J; Katupitiya J; Whitty M, 2017, 'Path planning for autonomous bulldozers', in Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA, Sydney, pp. 233 - 238, presented at Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2017, Sydney, 11 December 2017 - 13 December 2017

Kayastha S; Katupitiya J; Pearce G, 2017, 'A length offset based model for trajectory tracking of two-link planar robot arms', in 9th Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics, ACAM 2017, UNSW, presented at ACAM9, UNSW, 27 November 2017 - 29 November 2017

Taghia J; Wang X; Lam S; Katupitiya J, 2017, 'A sliding mode controller with a nonlinear disturbance observer for a farm vehicle operating in the presence of wheel slip', in Autonomous Robots, pp. 71 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10514-015-9530-4

Katupitiya J; Wang X; Taghia J, 2016, 'Robust Model Predictive Control for Path Tracking of a Tracked Vehicle with a Steerable Trailer in the Presence of Slip', in IFAC-PapersOnLine, Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 469 - 474, presented at IFAC Agricontrol 2016, Seattle, WA, USA, 14 August 2016 - 17 August 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.10.085

Shi L; Katupitiya J; Kinkaid N, 2016, 'Robust Attitude Controller for a Spacecraft Equipped with a Robotic Manipulator', in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, USA, presented at 2016 American Control Conference, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, USA, 06 July 2016 - 08 July 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2016.7526140

Shi L; Jayakody H; Kinkaid N; Katupitiya J, 2016, 'Attitude Regulation of a Free-Flying Space Robot during Contact Operations', in Aerospace Conference, 2016 IEEE, Yellowstone Conference Center, Big Sky, Montana, presented at IEEE Aerospace Conference, Yellowstone Conference Center, Big Sky, Montana, 05 March 2016 - 12 March 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2016.7500819

Woods MR; Guivant J; Katupitiya J, 2015, 'Terrain Classification and Segmentation using Non-Semantic Range Data', Canberra, Australia, presented at Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), Canberra, Australia, 02 December 2015 - 04 December 2015

Dai P; Katupitiya J, 2015, 'Online Path Tracking and Motion Optimization of a 4WS4WD Vehicle', in IEEE IROS (ed.), IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems, Hamburg, Grmany, presented at IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Grmany, 28 September 2015 - 02 October 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2015.7353961

Katupitiya J; Jayakody H, 2015, 'An Adaptive Variable Structure Control Methodology for Attitude and Position Control of a Vectored Thrust Aerial Vehicle', in IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Busan, Korea, presented at IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Busan, Korea, 07 July 2015 - 11 July 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AIM.2015.7222672

Dai P; Katupitiya J, 2015, 'Force Control of a 4WS4WD Vehicle for Path Tracking', in IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Busan, Korea, presented at IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Busan, Korea, 07 July 2015 - 11 July 2015

Katupitiya J; Taghia J, 2015, 'Path Following Control of an Off-Road Track Vehicle Towing a Steerable Driven Implement', Korea, presented at IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Korea, 07 July 2015 - 11 July 2015

Faul B; Katupitiya J, 2015, 'Dynamic Modelling and Simulation of a Vectored Thrust Quad-Rotor', in Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA

Jayakody HS; Katupitiya J, 2014, 'A Gain Adaptive Variable Structure Control Methodology for Second Order Nonlinear Dynamic Systems', in Astolfi A (ed.), 2014 IEEE 53rd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2014), IEEE, J.W.Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles, USA, pp. 4391 - 4397, presented at 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2014), J.W.Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles, USA, 15 December 2014 - 17 December 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2014.7040074

Dai P; Katupitiya J, 2014, 'Path Planning and Force Control of a 4WD4WS Vehicle', in echatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2014 IEEE International Conference, Melbourne, presented at Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA). 2014, Melbourne, 02 December 2014 - 04 December 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2014.6885958

Dai P; Katupitiya J, 2014, 'Path Planning and Tracking of a 4WD4WS Vehicle to be Driven Under Force Control', in Fu Y (ed.), IEEE, Tianjin, China, pp. 1709 - 1715, presented at International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, Tianjin, China, 03 August 2014 - 06 August 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2014.6885958

Katupitiya J, 2014, 'An Autonomous Seeder for Broad Acre Crops', in American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2014, ASABE 2014, Montreal, Canada, pp. 169 - 176, presented at 2014 ASABE and CSBE/SCGAB Annual International Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 13 July 2014 - 16 July 2014

Briquet-Kerestedjian N; Taghia J; Katupitiya J, 2014, 'Derivation of error models incorporating slippage for a tracked vehicle coupled to a steerable trailer', in IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM, pp. 1054 - 1060, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AIM.2014.6878220

Teng K; Katupitiya J, 2014, 'Market-based task assignment strategies for multi-agent systems deployed for bushfire fighting', in IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA, pp. 25 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCA.2014.6870890

Guivant J; Katupitiya ; Woods M, 2013, 'Terrain Classification using Depth Texture Features', in Eaton R (ed.), Terrain Classification using Depth Texture Features, Sydney, presented at Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), Sydney, 02 December 2013 - 05 December 2013

Guivant J; Cossell S, 2013, 'A GPU-Based Concurrent Motion Planning Algorithm for 3D Euclidean Configuration Spaces', in Katupitiya J; Eaton R (ed.), Proceedings of the 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Sydney, presented at 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), Sydney, 02 December 2013 - 04 December 2013

Guivant J; Cossell S, 2013, 'An Optimised GPU-Based Robot Motion Planner', in J. Katupitiya ; eaton (ed.), Proceedings of the 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Sydney, presented at 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), Sydney, 02 December 2013 - 04 December 2013

Pereida Perez K; Guivant , 2013, 'PWL Approximation for Dense Mapping and Associated Dijkstra Processes for the Concurrent Synthesis of Multiple Full Cost-to-Go Functions', in Katupitiya (ed.), Proceedings of the 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, University of New South Wales, presented at Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), University of New South Wales, 02 December 2013 - 04 December 2013

Katupitiya J; Jayakody H, 2013, 'Sliding Mode Based Position and Attitude Controller for a Vectored Thrust Aerial Vehicle', in Guivant J (ed.), Proceedings of the 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Australian Robotics and Automation Association, Sydney, Australia, presented at Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Sydney, Australia, 02 December 2013 - 04 December 2013, http://www.araa.asn.au/acra/acra2013/papers/pap125s1-file1.pdf

Taghia J; Katupitiya J, 2013, 'Wheel Slip Identifcation and its Use in the Robust Control of Articulated Off -Road Vehicles', in Guivant J (ed.), Wheel Slip Identifcation and its Use in the Robust Control of Articulated Off -Road Vehicles, Sydney, presented at Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), Sydney, 02 December 2013 - 04 December 2013, http://www.javadtaghia.com/

Woods MR; Katupitiya J, 2013, 'Modelling of a 4WS4WD vehicle and its control for path tracking', in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation, CICA 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013, pp. 155 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CICA.2013.6611677

Yuan W; Katupitiya J, 2013, 'Dynamic modelling and control of a vectored thrust aerial vehicle', in 2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics: Mechatronics for Human Wellbeing, AIM 2013, pp. 1361 - 1366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AIM.2013.6584284

Taghia J; Katupitiya J, 2013, 'A sliding mode controller with disturbance observer for a farm vehicle operating in the presence of wheel slip', in 2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, IEEE, presented at 2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 09 July 2013 - 12 July 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/aim.2013.6584313

Yuan W; Katupitiya J, 2012, 'A two-stage method for the parametric identification of scale-model helicopter dynamics', in AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2012-4733

Yuan W; Katupitiya J, 2012, 'Centralized robust controllers using signal-based H∞ and μ-synthesis for an unmanned helicopter', in AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2012-4417

Yuan W; Katupitiya J, 2012, 'Design of a μ synthesis controller to stabilize an unmanned helicopter', in 28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2012, ICAS 2012, pp. 3317 - 3325

Huynh VT; Smith RN; Kwok NM; Katupitiya J, 2012, 'A nonlinear PI and backstepping-based controller for tractor-steerable trailers influenced by slip', in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, USA, pp. 245 - 252, presented at 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 14 May 2012 - 18 May 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224567

Ward JR; Katupitiya J, 2012, 'Free space mapping and motion planning in configuration space for mobile manipulators.', in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, USA, presented at 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 14 May 2012 - 18 May 2012

Zhao J; Katupitiya J; Ward JR, 2012, 'Global correlation based ground plane estimation using V-disparity image', in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, USA, presented at 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 14 May 2012 - 18 May 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363041

Yuan W; Katupitiya J, 2011, 'A time-domain grey-box system identification procedure for scale model helicopters', in Proceedings of the 2011 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Australian Robotics and Automation Association, Queensland, Australia, pp. 8 p., presented at 2011 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Melbourne, VIC., 07 December 2011 - 09 December 2011

Kumon M; Katupitiya J; Mizumoto I, 2011, 'Robust attitude control of Vectored Thrust Aerial Vehicles', in Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress 2011, International Federation of Automatic Control, Milan, Italy, pp. 2607 - 2613, presented at 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, 28 August 2011 - 02 September 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.03445

Whitty MA; Cossell S; Dang KS; Guivant J; Katupitiya J, 2010, 'Autonomous Navigation using a Real-Time 3D Point Cloud', in Proceedings of the 2010 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Australian Robotics and Automation Association, http://www.araa.asn.au/acra/acra2010/index.html, pp. 1 - 10, presented at 2010 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2010, Brisbane, QLD, 01 December 2010 - 03 December 2010, http://www.araa.asn.au/acra/acra2010/papers/pap151s1-file1.pdf

Huynh VT; Katupitiya J; Kwok NM; Eaton RP, 2010, 'Derivation of an error model for tractor-trailer path tracking', in Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, ISKE 2010, IEEE, USA, pp. 60 - 66, presented at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, ISKE 2010, Hangzhou, China, 15 November 2010 - 16 November 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISKE.2010.5680795

Howarth B; Katupitiya J; Guivant J; Szwec A, 2010, 'Novel robotic 3D surface mapping using range and vision fusion', in 23rd IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, pp. 1539 - 1544, presented at 23rd IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan, 18 October 2010 - 22 October 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2010.5648844

Kumon M; Cover H; Katupitiya J, 2010, 'Hovering control of vectored thrust aerial vehicles', in 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, pp. 1149 - 1154, presented at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 03 May 2010 - 08 May 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509917

Eaton RP; Pota HR; Katupitiya J, 2009, 'Path tracking control of vehicles with compensation for steering dynamics', in Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, presented at Joint 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference, Shanghai, China, 16 December 2009 - 18 December 2009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2009.5399528

Zhao J; Whitty MA; Katupitiya J, 2009, 'Detection of non-flat ground surfaces using V-Disparity images', in Kuehnle J (ed.), 11 October 2009 - 15 October 2009


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