Technical Publications by Russ Paielli

Air Traffic Control

  • Russell A Paielli: " Trajectory Generation Based on Power for Urban Air Mobility," Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering, Oct 2023 (my version of same paper with minor revision of published version)
  • Russell A Paielli: "A Common Trajectory Language for New Airspace Domains," NASA Technical Memorandum NASA/TM-20230007896 May 2023. (same paper without the NASA cover pages)
  • Russell A Paielli: "Trajectory Specification Applied to Terminal Airspace," NASA Technical Paper NASA/TP-20220000348, January 2022. (same paper without the NASA cover pages) This paper combines the earlier papers on Trajectory Specification into a single reference paper.
  • Supplemental Plots on Trajectory Specification
  • Russell A Paielli and Heinz Erzberger: "Trajectory Specification for Terminal Airspace: Conflict Detection and Resolution," AIAA Journal of Air Transportation, Apr 2019. doi.org/10.2514/1.D0132
  • Russell A Paielli: "Trajectory Specification Language for Air Traffic Control", Journal of Advanced Transportation, Article ID 7905140, 2018. doi.org/10.1155/2018/7905140
  • Russell A Paielli: "Trajectory Specification for Terminal Air Traffic: Arrival Spacing," AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, Oct 2016. doi.org/10.2514/1.I010402
  • Heinz Erzberger, Tasos Nikoleris, Russell A Paielli, and Yung-Cheng Chu: "Algorithms for control of arrival and departure traffic in terminal airspace," Journal of Aerospace Engineering, DOI: 10.1177/0954410016629499, Feb 2016.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "Automated Generation of Air Traffic Encounters for Testing Conflict Resolution Software," AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, vol. 10, no. 5, May 2013.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "Evaluation of Tactical Conflict Resolution Algorithms for Enroute Airspace," AIAA Journal of Aircraft, vol. 48, no. 1, Jan-Feb 2011.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "Tactical Conflict Resolution using Vertical Maneuvers in Enroute Airspace," AIAA Journal of Aircraft, vol. 45, no. 6, Nov-Dec 2008.
  • Russell A. Paielli, Heinz Erzberger, Danny Chiu, and Karen Heere: "Tactical Conflict Alerting Aid for Air Traffic Controllers," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 32, no. 1, Jan-Feb 2009.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "Trajectory Specification for High-Capacity Air Traffic Control," AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computation, Information, and Communication, vol. 2, no. 9, Sept. 2005. This paper was also presented at the AIAA ATIO conference, Wichita, KS, Sept. 2006. [Abstract][powerpoint presentation]
  • Tasos Nikoleris, Heinz Erzberger, Russell A. Paielli, and Yung-Cheng Chu: "Autonomous System for Air Traffic Control in Terminal Airspace," AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conf., Atlanta GA, 16-20 June 2014.
  • David Bushnell, Dimitra Giannakpoulou, Peter Mehlitz, Russell Paielli, and Corina Pasareanu: "Verification and Validation of Air Traffic Systems: Tactical Separation Assurance," IEEE/AIAA Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 7-14, 2009.
  • Huabin Tang, Dallas Denery, Heinz Erzberger, and Russell Paielli: "Tactical Separation Algorithms and their Interaction with Collision Avoidance Systems," AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 18-21, 2008.
  • Russell A. Paielli and Heinz Erzberger: "Analysis of False-Alert Rates for a Tactical Conflict Detection System," AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO-05), Arlington, VA, Sept. 26-28, 2005.
  • Russell A. Paielli and Heinz Erzberger: "Tactical Conflict Detection Methods for Reducing Operational Errors," Air Traffic Control Quarterly, Vol. 13(1)(2005). [An earlier version of this paper with a slightly different title was presented at the ATIO-04 conference and won the award for best paper on air traffic management.] [Abstract]
  • Heinz Erzberger and Russell A. Paielli: "Concept for Next Generation Air Traffic Control System," Air Traffic Control Quarterly, Vol. 10(4)(2002), pp 355-378.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "Modeling Maneuver Dynamics in Air Traffic Conflict Resolution," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 26, no. 3, May-June 2003, pp 407-415.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "A Linear Altitude Rule for Safer and More Efficient Enroute Air Traffic," Air Traffic Control Quarterly, Vol. 8(3)(2000). [Presentation] [Abstract]
  • Russell A. Paielli and Heinz Erzberger: "Conflict Probability Estimation Generalized to Non-Level Flight," Air Traffic Control Quarterly, Vol. 7(3)(1999), pp 195-222. [Abstract]
  • Russell A. Paielli and Heinz Erzberger: "Conflict Probability Estimation For Free Flight," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 20, no. 3, pp 588-596, May-June 1997.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "Empirical Test of Conflict Probability Estimation," presented at the 2nd USA/Europe Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar, Orlando, Florida, Dec. 1-4, 1998.
  • Heinz Erzberger; Russell A. Paielli: "Conflict Prediction and Resolution In The Presence of Prediction Error," 1st USA/Europe Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar, Saclay, France, June 17-20, 1997.
  • GPS Precision Landing Guidance

  • Russell A. Paielli; Ralph E. Bach, Jr.; B. David McNally; R.C. Simmons; D.N. Warner; T.J. Forsyth; G. Kanning; C.T. Ahtye; D.N. Kaufman; J.C. Walton: "Carrier Phase Differential GPS Integrated with INS: Flight Test Evaluation with Auto-Coupled Precision Landing Guidance," Institute of Navigation 1995 National Technical Meeting, Anaheim, CA, Jan 18-20, 1995.
  • Russell A. Paielli; B. David McNally; Ralph E. Bach, Jr.; D.N. Warner: "Carrier Phase Differential GPS for Approach and Landing: Algorithms and Preliminary Results," Institute of Navigation 6th International Technical Meeting (ION GPS-93), Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept 22-24, 1993.
  • B. David McNally; Russell A. Paielli; Ralph E. Bach, Jr.: "Flight Evaluation of Differential GPS Aided Inertial Navigation Systems," AGARD Specialist's Meeting on Integrated and Multi-Function Navigation, Ottawa, Canada, May 1992.
  • Ralph E. Bach, Jr.; Russell A. Paielli; B. David McNally: "Using Deltarange Measurements in GPS-aided navigation Systems," ION National Technical Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Jan 20-22, 1993.
  • Flight Dynamics and Control

  • Russell A. Paielli and Ralph E. Bach, Jr.: "Attitude Control with Realization of Linear Error Dynamics," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 16, no. 1, Jan-Feb 1993, pp 182-189.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "Global Transformation of Rotation Matrices to Euler Parameters," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 15, no. 5, Sep-Oct 1992, pp. 1309-1311.
  • Ralph E. Bach and Russell A. Paielli: "Linearization of Attitude-Control Error Dynamics," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 38, no. 10, Oct 1993, pp. 1521-1525. (Unfortunately, this paper was badly botched by IEEE.)
  • Russell A. Paielli and Ralph E. Bach, Jr.: "Linearizing Feedforward/Feedback Attitude Control," American Control Conference (ACC-91), Boston, MA, June 1991. Won award for best presentation of Nonlinear Control session.
  • Ralph E. Bach, Jr. and Russell A. Paielli: "Direct Inversion of Rigid-Body Rotational Dynamics," American Control Conference (ACC-90), San Diego, CA, May 1990.
  • More GPS Navigation

  • Frederick G. Edwards; Russell A. Paielli; D.M. Hegarty: "Helicopter Terminal Approach Using Differential GPS with Vertical-Axis Enhancement," Institute of Navigation National Technical Meeting, Colorado Springs, CO, Sept 1987.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "Range Filtering for Sequential GPS Receivers," Institute of Navigation National Technical Meeting, Anahein, CA, Jan 1987.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "Range Filtering for Sequential GPS Receivers with External Sensor Augmentation," NASA TM-89418, April 1987.
  • Other

  • Russell A. Paielli: "Simulation Tests of the Optimization Method of Hopfield and Tank Using Neural Networks," NASA TM-101047, Nov 1988.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "An Array Version of FortranForm and CForm," Mathematica Journal, vol. 1, issue 3, Winter 1991, pg 60.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "An Object-Oriented Implementation of Scalar Dynamic Forms in C++," a user's guide for Dynamic Forms software in C++ by R.A. Paielli, 1995.
  • Russell A. Paielli: "An Object-Oriented Implementation of Vectors and Matrices in C++," a user's guide for vector/matrix utility software in C++ by R.A. Paielli, 1994.
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