Contacts

Chapters

  1. G. Hu, N. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, “Adaptive Visual Servo Control” in Autonomous Robotics, Complexity and Nonlinearity, a volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science , Springer, to appear.

Journal Papers

  1. G. Hu, N. Gans, N. Fitz-Coy, and W. E. Dixon, “Adaptive Homography-Based Visual Servo Tracking Control Via A Quaternion Formulation,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, to appear.
  2. G. Hu, W. Mackunis, N. Gans, W. E. Dixon, J. Chen, A. Behal, D.M. Dawson, “Homography-Based Visual Servo Control via an Uncalibrated Camera,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear.
  3. G. Hu, D. Aiken, S. Gupta, W.E. Dixon, “Lyapunov-Based Range Identification For A Paracatadioptric System,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, No. 7, pp. 1775-1781, (2008).
  4. S. S. Mehta, T. Burks, W. E. Dixon, “A Theoretical Model for Vision-Based Localization of a Wheeled Mobile Robot in Greenhouse Applications: A Daisy Chaining Approach,” Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Vol. 63, pp. 28-37, (2008).
  5. J. Chen, D. M. Dawson, W. E. Dixon, and V. Chitrakaran, “Navigation Function Based Visual Servo Control,” Automatica, Vol. 43, pp. 1165-1177, (2007).
  6. Y. Fang, W. E. Dixon, D. M. Dawson, and J. Chen, “An Exponential Class of Model-Free Visual Servoing Controllers in the Presence of Uncertain Camera Calibration,” International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol 21, (2006).
  7. J. Chen, W. E. Dixon, D. M. Dawson, and M. McIntyre, “Homography-Based Visual Servo Tracking Control of a Wheeled Mobile Robot,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 406 - 415, (2006).
  8. M. McIntyre, W. E. Dixon, D. M. Dawson, and I. D. Walker, “Fault Detection and Identification for Robot Manipulators,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 1028-1034, (2005).
  9. Y. Fang, W. E. Dixon, D. M. Dawson, and P. Chawda, “Homography-Based Visual Servoing of Wheeled Mobile Robots,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics -Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 1041-1050, (2005).
  10. J. Chen, D. M. Dawson, W. E. Dixon, and A. Behal, “Adaptive Homography-Based Visual Servo Tracking for Fixed and Camera-in-Hand Configurations,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 814-825, (2005).
  11. A. Behal, P. Setlur, W. E. Dixon, and D. M. Dawson, “Adaptive Position and Orientation Regulation for the Camera-in-Hand Problem,” Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 457-473, (2005).
  12. V. Chitrakaran, D. M. Dawson, W. E. Dixon, and J. Chen, “Identification of a Moving Object’s Velocity with a Fixed Camera,” Automatica, Vol. 41, No.3, pp. 553 - 562, (2005).
  13. W. E. Dixon, Y. Fang, D. M. Dawson, and T. J. Flynn, “Range Identification for Perspective Vision Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 48, No. 12, pp. 2232-2238, (2003).

Conference Papers


  1. N. R. Gans, G. Hu, W. E. Dixon, “Simultaneous Stability of Image and Pose Error in Visual Servo Control,” IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, San Antonio, Texas, September 2008, pp. 438-443 (Invited Paper).
  2. N. R. Gans, G. Hu, W. E. Dixon, “Keeping Objects in the Field of View: An Underdetermined Task Function Approach to Visual Servoing,” IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control part of the Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, San Antonio, Texas, September 2008, pp. 432-437 (Invited Paper).
  3. S. S. Mehta, G. Hu, A. P. Dani, W. E. Dixon, “Multi-Reference Visual Servo Control of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2008.
  4. G. Hu, W. MacKunis, N. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, “Adaptive Homography-Based Visual Servo Control via an Uncalibrated Camera,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2008, Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 4791-4796.
  5. N. R. Gans, A. Dani, W. E. Dixon, “Visual Servoing to an Arbitrary Pose with Respect to an Object Given a Single Known Length,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2008, Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 1261-1267.
  6. G. Hu and W. E. Dixon “Lyapunov-Based Adaptive Visual Servo Tracking Control Using Central Catadioptric Camera,” IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, October 2007, Suntec City, Singapore, pp. 1486-1491.
  7. G. Hu, N. R. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, “Quaternion-Based Visual Servo Control in the Presence of Camera Calibration Error,” IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, October 2007, Suntec City, Singapore, pp. 1492-1497.
  8. G. Hu, S. Mehta, N. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, “Daisy Chaining Based Visual Servo Control Part I: Adaptive Quaternion-Based Tracking Control,” IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, October 2007, Suntec City, Singapore, pp. 1474-1479.
  9. G. Hu, N. Gans, S. Mehta, and W. E. Dixon, “Daisy Chaining Based Visual Servo Control Part II: Extensions, Applications and Open Problems,” IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, October 2007, Suntec City, Singapore, pp. 729-734.
  10. L. Ma, C. Cao, N. Hovakimyan, W. E. Dixon, C. Woolsey, “Fast Estimation for Range Identification in the Presence of Unknown Motion Parameters,” International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), May 2007, Angers, France, 157-164.
  11. K. Dupree, N. Gans, W. Mackunis, W. E. Dixon, “Euclidean Calculation of Feature Points of a Rotating Satellite: A Daisy Chaining Approach,” American Control Conference, July 2007, New York, NY, pp. 3874-3879.
  12. L. Ma, C. Cao, N. Hovakimyan, W. E. Dixon, C. Woolsey, “Range Identification in the Presence of Unknown Motion Parameters for Perspective Vision Systems,” American Control Conference, July 2007, New York, NY, pp. 972-977.
  13. K. Kaiser, N. R. Gans, W. E. Dixon, “Localization and Control of an Aerial Vehicle through Chained, Vision-Based Pose Reconstruction,” American Control Conference, July 2007, New York, NY, pp. 5934-5939.
  14. S. C. Solanki, W. E. Dixon, C. D. Crane, and S. Gupta, “Uncalibrated Visual Servo Control of Robot Manipulators with Uncertain Kinematics,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, 2006, pp. 3855-3860.
  15. S. Mehta, G. Hu, N. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, “Adaptive Vision-Based Collaborative Tracking Control of an UGV via a Moving Airborne Camera: A Daisy Chaining Approach,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, 2006, pp. 3867-3872.
  16. D. Aiken, S. Gupta, G. Hu, W. E. Dixon, “Lyapunov-Based Range Identification for a Paracatadioptric System,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, 2006, pp. 3879-3884.
  17. G. Hu, S. Gupta, N. Fitz-coy, and W. E. Dixon, “Lyapunov-Based Visual Servo Tracking Control via a Quaternion Formulation,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, 2006, pp. 3861-3866.
  18. S. Mehta, K. Kaiser, N. Gans, W. E. Dixon, “Homography-Based Coordinate Relationships for Unmanned Air Vehicle Regulation,” Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Keystone, Colorado, 2006 (Invited Paper).
  19. K. Kaiser, N. Gans, S. Mehta, W. E. Dixon, “Position and Orientation of an Aerial Vehicle through Chained, Vision-Based Pose Reconstruction,” Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Keystone, Colorado, 2006 (Invited Paper).
  20. S. Mehta, W. E. Dixon, D. MacArthur, C. D. Crane, “Visual Servo Control of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle via a Moving Airborne Monocular Camera,” American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2006, pp. 5276-5281.
  21. S. Gupta, D. Aiken, G. Hu, W .E. Dixon, “Lyapunov-Based Range and Motion Identification for a Nonaffine Perspective Dynamic System,” American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2006, pp. 4471-4476.
  22. G. Hu, W. E. Dixon, S. Gupta, and N. Fitz-Coy, “A Quaternion Formulation for Homography-based Visual Servo Control,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, Florida, 2006, pp. 2391-2396.
  23. S. Mehta, W. E. Dixon, T. Burks, and S. Gupta, “Lyapunov-Based Teach By Zooming Visual Servo Control for an Uncalibrated Camera System,” Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2005.
  24. J. Chen, D. M. Dawson, W. E. Dixon, and V. Chitrakaran, “Navigation Function Based Visual Servo Control,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2005, pp. 3682-3687.
  25. J. Chen, D. M. Dawson, W. E. Dixon, and V. Chitrakaran, “An Optimization-Based Approach for Fusing Image-Based Trajectory Generation with Position-Based Visual Servo Control,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 14-17, 2004, pp. 4034-4039.
  26. J. Chen, W. E. Dixon, D. M. Dawson, and V. Chitrakaran, “Visual Servo Tracking Control of a Wheeled Mobile Robot with a Monocular Fixed Camera,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004, to appear.
  27. Y. Fang, W. E. Dixon, and D. M. Dawson,“Adaptive 2.5D Visual Servoing of Cartesian Robots,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, (ICARCV), Kunming, China, December 6-9, 2004, pp. 68-73.
  28. W. E. Dixon, “Teach by Zooming: A Camera Independent Alternative to Teach By Showing Visual Servo Control,” Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2003, pp. 749-754.
  29. J. Chen, D. M. Dawson, W. E. Dixon, and A. Behal, “Adaptive Homography-Based Visual Servo Tracking,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2003, pp. 230-235.
  30. J. Chen, W. E. Dixon, D. M. Dawson, and M. McIntire, “Homography-Based Visual Servo Tracking Control of a Wheeled Mobile Robot,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2003, pp. 1814-1819.
  31. Y. Fang, W. E. Dixon, D. M. Dawson, and J. Chen, “An Exponential Class of Model-Free Visual Servoing Controllers in the Presence of Uncertain Camera Calibration,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii USA, December, 2003, pp. 5390-5395.
  32. V. Chitrakaran, D. M. Dawson, W. E. Dixon, and J. Chen, “Identification of a Moving Object’s Velocity with a Fixed Camera,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii USA, December, 2003, pp. 5402-5407.
  33. J. Chen, A. Behal, D. M. Dawson, and W. E. Dixon, “Adaptive Visual Servoing in the Presence of Intrinsic Calibration Uncertainty,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii USA, December 2003, pp. 5396-5401.
  34. W. E. Dixon, Y. Fang, D. M. Dawson, and J. Chen, “Adaptive Range Identification for Exponential Visual Servo Control,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Houston, Texas, October 2003, pp. 46-51.
  35. W. E. Dixon, Y. Fang, D. M. Dawson, and T. J. Flynn, “Range Identification for Perspective Vision Systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 2003, pp. 3448-3453.
  36. Y. Fang, W. E. Dixon, D. M. Dawson, and J. Chen, “Robust 2.5D Visual Servoing for Robot Manipulators,” Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 2003, pp. 3311-3316.
  37. Y. Fang, A. Behal, W. E. Dixon, and D. M. Dawson, “Adaptive 2.5D Visual Servoing of Kinematically Redundant Robot Manipulators,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2002, pp. 2860-2865.
  38. Y. Fang, D. M. Dawson, W. E. Dixon, and M. S. de Queiroz, “Homography-based Visual Servoing of Wheeled Mobile Robots,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2002, pp. 2866-2871.
  39. W. E. Dixon and L. J. Love, “Lyapunov-based Visual Servo Control for Robotic Deactivation and Decommissioning,” Proceedings of the Biennial ANS International Spectrum Conference, Reno, Nevada, August 2002.
  40. W. E. Dixon, E. Zergeroglu, Y. Fang, and D. M. Dawson, “Object Tracking by a Robot Manipulator: A Robust Cooperative Visual Servoing Approach,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington, DC, May 2002, pp. 211-216.
  41. P. Setlur, A. Behal, W. E. Dixon, and D. M. Dawson, “Adaptive Position and Orientation Regulation for the Camera-in-Hand Problem,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems and Control, 2001 (Invited Paper).
  42. W. E. Dixon, D. M. Dawson, E. Zergeroglu, and A. Behal, “Adaptive Tracking Control of a Wheeled Mobile Robot via an Uncalibrated Camera System,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 2000, pp. 1493-1497.

Others

  1. P. V. Chawda, W. E. Dixon, T. J. Flynn, E. B. Holcombe, L. J. Love, J. C. Rowe, “Proof-of-Concept Demonstration Results for Robotic Visual Servo Controllers,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory Technical Manual ORNL/TM-2004/110, 2004.