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Will MacKunis received his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida, in May of 2003. Specializing in robotics, his Masters thesis research dealt with efficient control methods for autonomous multi-robot navigation. After completing a year of Japanese language study in Tokyo, Japan, he will begin his Ph.D. research at the University of Florida as a member of the Nonlinear Controls and Robotics Group in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
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Journal Papers


  1. G. Hu, W. MacKunis, N. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, "Homography-Based Visual Servo Control via an Uncalibrated Camera," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2007, submitted.
  2. W. MacKunis, K. Dupree, N. Fitz-Coy, and W. E. Dixon, "Adaptive Satellite Attitude Control in the Presence of Inertia and CMG Gimbal Friction Uncertainties," AAS Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, submitted.
  3. P. M. Patre, W. MacKunis, K. Kaiser, and W. E. Dixon, "Asymptotic Tracking for Uncertain Dynamic Systems via a Multilayer NN Feedforward and RISE Feedback Control Structure," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, submitted.
  4. P. M. Patre, W. MacKunis, C. Makkar, and W. E. Dixon, "Asymptotic Tracking for Systems with Structured and Unstructured Uncertainties," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, accepted, to appear.

Conference Papers


  1. P. M. Patre, W. MacKunis, K. Dupree, and W. E. Dixon, "A New Class of Modular Adaptive Controllers, Part I: Systems with Linear-in-the-Paramters Uncertainty," IEEE American Control Conference, submitted.
  2. P. M. Patre, K. Dupree, W. MacKunis, and W. E. Dixon, " A New Class of Modular Adaptive Controllers, Part II: Neural Network Extension for Non-LP Systems," IEEE American Control Conference, submitted.
  3. W. MacKunis, K. Dupree, N. Fitz-Coy, and W. E. Dixon, " Adaptive Neural Network Satellite Attitude Control in the Presence of Inertia and CMG Actuator Uncertainties," IEEE American Control Conference, submitted.
  4. W. MacKunis, K. Kaiser, P. M. Patre, and W. E. Dixon, " Asymptotic Tracking for Aircraft via an Uncertain Dynamic Inversion Method," IEEE American Control Conference, submitted.
  5. W. MacKunis, N. Gans, K. Kaiser, and W. E. Dixon, " Unified Tracking and Regulation Visual Servo Control for Wheeled Mobile Robots," IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, October 2007, Suntec City, Singapore, to appear (Invited Paper).
  6. G. Hu, W. MacKunis, N. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, " Homography-Based Visual Servo Control via an Uncalibrated Camera," IEEE American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, 2008, submitted.
  7. W. MacKunis, K. Dupree, N. Fitz-Coy, and W. E. Dixon, "Adaptive Satellite Attitude Control in the Presence of Inertia and CMG Gimbal Friction Uncertainties," Proceedings of 2007 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 2007.
  8. P. M. Patre, W. MacKunis, C. Makkar, and W. E. Dixon, "Asymptotic Tracking for Systems with Structured and Unstructured Uncertainties," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, 2006, pp. 441-446
  9. K. Dupree, N. R. Gans, W. MacKunis, and W. E. Dixon, "Euclidean Calculation of Feature Points of a Rotating Satellite: A Daisy Chaining Approach," IEEE American Control Conference, New York City, NY, July, 2007 pp. 3874 - 3879.
  10. P. M. Patre, W. E. Dixon, K. Kaiser, and W. MacKunis, "Asymptotic Tracking for Uncertain Dynamic Systems via a Multilayer NN Feedforward and RISE Feedback Control Structure," IEEE American Control Conference, New York City, NY, July, 2007, pp. 5989 - 5994.
  11. W. MacKunis and Dr. D. Raviv, "A Simplistic Approach to Reactive Multi-Agent Control in Unknown Environments" American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2003 National Conference, Nashville, TN.