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Zachary D. Wilcox

Zach Wilcox grew up in Yarrow Point, a city just outside of Seattle, Washington, and lived there until moving to Florida to attend college in 2001. He received dual Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Florida’s Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering department in the spring of 2006. During his undergraduate work, Zach participated as a diver on UF's Men’s Swimming & Diving Team. In addition, he did research work for UF's Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) group and participated in International MAV competitions. He recieved his Masters of Science in Aerospace Engineering from University of Florida in the spring of 2008. He is currently a Doctoral Student in the Nonlinear Controls and Robotics Group in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering under the advisement of Dr. Dixon.
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Journal Papers


  1. Z. D. Wilcox, W. MacKunis, S. Bhat, R. Lind, W. E. Dixon, “Lyapunov-Based Exponential Tracking Control of a Hypersonic Aircraft with Aerothermoelastic Effects,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2010, to appear.
  2. W. MacKunis, K. Kaiser, Z. D. Wilcox, W. E. Dixon, “Global Adaptive Output Feedback Tracking Control of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,”IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, to appear.
  3. P. M. Patre, S. Bhasin, Z. D. Wilcox, and W. E. Dixon “Composite Adaptation for Neural Network-Based Controllers,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, April, 2010.
  4. K. Dupree, P. Patre, Z. D. Wilcox, W. E. Dixon, “Optimal Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems Using RISE Feedback and Neural Networks,” Automatica, submitted 2009.

Conference Papers


  1. Z. D. Wilcox, S. Bhat, R. Lind, W. E. Dixon, “Control Performance Variation due to Nonlinear Aerothermoelasticity in a Hypersonic Vehicle: Insights for Structural Design,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, & Control Conference, Chicago, IL, 2009.
  2. P. M. Patre, S. Bhasin, Z. D. Wilcox, W. E. Dixon, “Composite Adaptation for Neural Network-Based Controllers,” 2009 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6726-6731, Shanghai, P.R. China.
  3. W. MacKunis, Z. D. Wilcox, K. Kaiser, and W. E. Dixon, “Global Adaptive Output Feedback MRAC,” 2009 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3483-3488, Shanghai, P.R. China.
  4. Z. D. Wilcox, W. MacKunis, S. Bhat, R. Lind, W. E. Dixon, “Robust Nonlinear Control of a Hypersonic Aircraft in the Presence of Aerothermoelastic Effects,” 2009 IEEE American Controls Conference ,pp. 2533-2538, St. Louis, Missouri.
  5. K. Dupree, P. M. Patre, Z. D. Wilcox, and W. E. Dixon, “Optimal Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems using a Neural Network and RISE Feedback,” 2009 IEEE American Controls Conference, pp. 361-366, St. Louis, Missouri.
  6. S. Bhasin, K. Dupree, Z. D. Wilcox, and W. E. Dixon, ,“Adaptive Control of a Robotic System Undergoing a Non-Contact to Contact Transition with a Viscoelastic Environment,” 2009 IEEE American Controls Conference, pp. 3506-3511, St. Louis, Missouri.
  7. K. Dupree, P. M. Patre, Z. D. Wilcox, and W. E. Dixon, “Optimal Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems using RISE Feedback,” 2008 IEEE Conference on Decision and Controls, pp. 2154-2159, Cancun, Mexico.