sample of publications

• articles 

  • Design of Structured H-infinity flight controllers: Passive fault-tolerant versus observer-based structures.  ISA TRANSACTIONS.  143:20-37. 2023
  • Guidance for autonomous spacecraft repointing under attitude constraints and actuator limitations.  ACTA ASTRONAUTICA.  207:340-352. 2023
  • The VEGA launcher atmospheric control problem: a case for linear parameter-varying synthesis.  JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE-ENGINEERING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS.  359:899-927. 2022
  • Fault tolerant linear parameter varying flight control design, verification and validation.  JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE-ENGINEERING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS.  359:653-676. 2022
  • Launcher Flight Control Design using Robust Wind Disturbance Observation.  ACTA ASTRONAUTICA.  186:303-318. 2021
  • Envelope Extension via Adaptive Augmented Thrust Vector Control System.  JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS.  44:1044-1052. 2021
  • On the effect of model uncertainty on the Hopf bifurcation of aeroelastic systems.  NONLINEAR DYNAMICS.  103:1453-1473. 2021
  • An extension of the structured singular value to nonlinear systems with application to robust flutter analysis.  CEAS Aeronautical Journal.  11:1057-1069. 2020
  • Computation of bifurcation margins based on robust control concepts.  SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS.  19:1956-1992. 2020
  • Linear Fractional Transformation co-modeling of high-order aeroelastic systems for robust flutter analysis.  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CONTROL.  54:49-63. 2020
  • Robust Control for Launchers: VEGA study case.  Journal of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers.  59:192-202. 2020
  • H¿ Control Design for Active Flutter Suppression of Flexible-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Demonstrator.  Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.  43:656-672. 2020
  • Reusable launchers: development of a coupled flight mechanics, guidance, and control benchmark.  JOURNAL OF SPACECRAFT AND ROCKETS.  57:74-89. 2020
  • Region of attraction analysis with Integral Quadratic Constraints.  AUTOMATICA.  109:108543-108553. 2019
  • Guidance of reusable launchers: Improving descent and landing performance.  Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.  42:2206-2219. 2019
  • Worst-case disturbances for time-varying systems with application to flexible aircraft.  JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS.  42:1261-1271. 2019
  • Legacy recovery and robust augmentation structured design for the VEGA launcher.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL.  29:3363-3388. 2019
  • Robust estimations of the Region of Attraction using invariant sets.  JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE-ENGINEERING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS.  356:4622-4647. 2019
  • Systematic performance-oriented guidance tuning for descent & landing on small planetary bodies.  ACTA ASTRONAUTICA.  158:44-54. 2019
  • Nonlinear Robust Approaches to Study Stability and Postcritical Behavior of an Aeroelastic Plant.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY.  27:703-716. 2019
  • Enhanced disturbance rejection control based test rocket control system design and validation.  ISA TRANSACTIONS.  84:31-42. 2019
  • Trajectory design and guidance for landing on Phobos.  ACTA ASTRONAUTICA.  151:389-400. 2018
  • Synthesis and analysis of robust control compensators for Space descent & landing.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL.  28:3871-3892. 2018
  • Fault Tolerance - Background and Recent Trends.  Journal of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers.  57:279-286. 2018
  • Review of guidance techniques for landing on small bodies.  PROGRESS IN AEROSPACE SCIENCES.  103:69-83. 2018
  • Study of flexible aircraft body freedom flutter with robustness tools.  Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.  41:1083-1094. 2018
  • Aeroelastic modeling and stability analysis: A robust approach to the flutter problem.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL.  28:342-364. 2017
  • Structured singular-value analysis of the Vega launcher in atmospheric flight.  Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.  39:1342-1355. 2016
  • An overview of the RFCS project V&V framework: optimization-based and linear tools for worst-case search.  CEAS Space Journal.  7:303-318. 2015
  • CEP special section issue on advanced fault diagnosis for sustainable flight control-The European ADDSAFE project.  CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE.  31:107-108. 2014
  • Special issue on linear parameter varying systems.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL.  24:1925-1926. 2014
  • The European ADDSAFE project: Industrial and academic efforts towards advanced fault diagnosis.  CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE.  31:109-125. 2014
  • Fault reconstruction using a LPV sliding mode observer for a class of LPV systems.  Journal of the Franklin Institute.  349:510-530. 2012
  • Advanced diagnosis for sustainable flight guidance and control: The European ADDSAFE project.  SAE 2011 AeroTech Congress and Exhibition, AEROTECH 2011.  2011
  • Development of an integrated LPV/LFT framework: Modeling and data-based validation tool.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY.  19:104-117. 2011
  • Robustness analysis of a reusable launch vehicle flight control law.  CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE.  17:751-765. 2009
  • Worst case analysis of control law for re-entry vehicles using hybrid differential evolution.  Studies in Computational Intelligence.  143:319-333. 2008

• conference contributions 

  • Comparison of Flight FTC Techniques: from standard and structured H¿, to self-scheduling and LPV.  61-66. 2022
  • Enhanced AOCS verification techniques for Euclid's high-pointing performance.  91-96. 2022
  • Hardware in the loop test bench development suitable for new space concept.  223-231. 2022
  • Active flutter mitigation testing on the flexop demonstrator aircraft 2020
  • Observer-Based Robust H8 Fault-Tolerant Flight Control: A Design Example and Performance Assessment 2020
  • A symbolic LFT approach for robust flutter analysis of high-order models 2019
  • Active flutter suppression: Non-structured and structured H¿ design 2019
  • An equilibrium-independent region of attraction formulation for systems with uncertainty-dependent equilibria 2019
  • Design and Hardware-In-the-Loop Validation of a Fault-Tolerant Y¿ Flight Control Law 2019
  • Estimating the Region of Attraction of Uncertain Systems with Integral Quadratic Constraints 2019
  • Flight control design for a highly flexible flutter demonstrator 2019
  • Robust-control-based design and comparison of an adaptive controller for the vega launcher 2019
  • Algorithms for the estimation of the region of attraction with positively invariant sets 2018
  • Estimating the region of attraction of uncertain systems with invariant sets¿ 2018
  • From Standard to Structured Robust Control Design: Application to Aircraft Automatic Glide-slope Approach 2018
  • Joint robust structured design of VEGA launcher's rigid-body controller and bending filter 2018
  • Linear Parameter Varying Control Synthesis for the atmospheric phase VEGA launcher¿ 2018
  • Nonlinear stability and post-critical analysis of an uncertain plant with describing functions and integral quadratic constraints 2018
  • Reconciling Full-Order LPV Design and Augmented Structured H ¿ via Internal Model Principle: A Launch Vehicle Application 2018
  • Robust Control Compensation for Space Descent Landing ¿ 2018
  • Flight testing of an structured H-infinity controller: An EU-Japan collaborative experience 2017
  • LFT Modeling and ¿ Analysis of the Aircraft Landing Benchmark 2017
  • Landing on small bodies trajectory design, robust nonlinear guidance and control 2017
  • Revisiting the aircraft C¿ control law: A comparison between classical and structured H-infinity designs 2017
  • Robust Flare Control Design Using Structured H¿ Synthesis: a Civilian Aircraft Landing Challenge 2017
  • Comparison of Aeroelastic Modeling and Robust Flutter Analysis of a Typical Section 2016
  • Modeling and robust Body Freedom Flutter Analysis of flexible aircraft configurations 2016
  • Structured H-infinity control based on classical control parameters for the VEGA launch vehicle 2016
  • Wind optimal flight trajectories to minimise fuel consumption within a 3 dimensional flight network 2016
  • An overview of the FP7 RECONFIGURE project: Industrial, scientific and technological objectives 2015
  • LPV modeling and LFT uncertainty identification for robust analysis: Application to the VEGA launcher during atmospheric phase 2015
  • Uncertainty modeling and robust analysis of atmospheric launchers: Incremental steps for industrial transfer 2015
  • AIRBUS efforts towards advanced real-time fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control 2014
  • Model-based FDIR: From paper to planes 2014
  • Bridging the gap between linear and nonlinear worst-case analysis: An application case to the atmospheric phase of the VEGA launcher 2013
  • Fault detection and isolation for a rocket engine valve 2013
  • Optimization-based worst-case analysis of a launcher during the atmospheric ascent phase 2013
  • Angle of attack and true airspeed failure sensor detection and recovery based on unscented Kalman Filters for the ALPHA vehicle 2012
  • Assessment on the ADDSAFE benchmark simulator of an H-infinity fault detection design for aircraft 2012
  • Frozen-time and time-varying robust stability certificates for the coupled pitch/yaw motion of an axial-symmetric launch vehicle 2012
  • HMS-control-interaction architecture for rocket engines 2012
  • Industrial benchmarking and evaluation of ADDSAFE FDD designs 2012
  • Robust flight control system design verification & validation for launchers 2012
  • Thrust vector control robustness of axial-symmetric launch vehicles with fuel slosh 2012
  • Verification & validation of a satellite fault detection and isolation scheme based on sliding-mode observers 2012
  • Application of h-infinity fault diagnosis to addsafe benchmark: The control surface jamming case 2011
  • A gain scheduled H-infinity controller for a re-entry benchmark 2010
  • Actuator and sensor fault reconstruction using an LPV sliding mode observer 2010
  • Application of LPV modeling, design and analysis methods to a re-entry vehicle 2010
  • Application of a fault accommodation approach to a re-entry vehicle 2010
  • Development and testing of a GNC-FDI filter for a reusable launch vehicle during ascent 2010
  • FDI for a mars orbiting satellite based on a sliding mode observer scheme 2010
  • Industrial review 2010
  • Achievable moments NDI-based fault tolerant thrust vector control of an atmospheric vehicle during ascent 2009
  • Application of LPV/LFT modeling and data-based validation to a re-entry vehicle 2009
  • Development of an FDI filter for the hopper RLV during re-entry 2009
  • LPV modeling, analysis and design in space systems: Rationale, objectives and limitations 2009
  • Piloted assessment of a fault diagnosis algorithm on the ATTAS aircraft 2009
  • FF analysis and GNC concept for a FF mission in highly eccentric orbit 2008
  • Gain-scheduled FDI for a re-entry vehicle 2008
  • Guidance and control design for the ascent phase of the hopper RLV 2008
  • LFT modelling for the analysis of relative motion controllers in eccentric orbits 2008
  • Multiobjective worst-case analysis of a re-entry vehicle control law 2008
  • Simulation-based fault analysis methodology for aerospace vehicles 2008