UB - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York UB Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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  • John L. Crassidis, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Aerospace Engineering and Associate Director, Center for Multisource Information Fusion

  • Education: Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, 1993
    Office: 1007 Furnas Hall
    Phone: (716) 645-1426
    FAX: (716) 645-3668
    E-mail: johnc .at. eng.buffalo.edu
    Home Page: http://www.buffalo.edu/~johnc
    Curriculum Vitae: Click for PDF
    Research Interests: Spacecraft attitude determination & control, formation flying guidance & navigation, robust nonlinear control, vehicle attitude dynamics.

    Selected Papers:

    • Fosbury, A.M., and Crassidis, J.L., "Kalman Filtering for Relative Inertial Navigation of Air Vehicles," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, accepted for publication.
    • Lai, K.-L., and Crassidis, J.L., "Extensions of the First and Second Complex-Step Derivative Approximations," Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, accepted for publication.
    • Markley, F.L., Cheng, Y., Crassidis, J.L., and Oshman, Y., "Averaging Quaternions," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 30, No. 4, July-Aug. 2007, pp. 1193-1196.
    • Crassidis, J.L., Markley, F.L., and Cheng, Y., "A Survey of Nonlinear Attitude Estimation Methods," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 30, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2007, pp. 12-28.
    • Kim, S.-G., Crassidis, J.L., Cheng, Y., Fosbury, A.M., and Junkins, J.L., "Kalman Filtering for Relative Spacecraft Attitude and Position Estimation," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 30, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2007, pp. 133-143.