Conference Papers

[C79] M. M. Wittal, B. Asher, and M. Nazari, Autonomous RPOD for Arbitrarily Configured Spacecraft with Anomaly Detection, AAS 24-439, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Broomfield, CO, August 11-15, 2024.

[C78]. H. Gunter, A. Anderson, M. Nazari, and D. Canales, Benefits of Using a Variational Integrator for the Circular Restricted Full Three-Body Problem, AAS 24-346, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Broomfield, CO, August 11-15, 2024.

[C77]. H. Gunter, M. Fagetti, M. Nazari, M. M. Wittal, and J. D. Smith, Nonlinear State and Mass Property Estimation on TSE(3) During Undocking Maneuvers in the Cislunar Region, AAS 24-286, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Broomfield, CO, August 11-15, 2024.

[C76]. M. Fagetti, H. Gunter, M. Nazari, M. M. Wittal, M. Elmore, and J. D. Smith, Spacecraft State Estimation on TSE(3) in the Presence of Slosh Modeled as a Moving, Pulsating Ball, AAS 24-271, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Broomfield, CO, August 11-15, 2024.

[C75]. A. Anderson, H. Gunter, D. Canales, and M. Nazari, Attitude Prediction in a Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit Using a Full Higher-Fidelity Ephemeris Model, AAS 24-214, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Broomfield, CO, August 11-15, 2024

[C74] M. M. Wittal, W. Dziedzic, J. S. Pitt, B. S. McCann, M. Fagetti, and M. Nazari, Modeling Low-G Slosh Using Negative Mass, 46th Rocky Mountain AAS GN&C Conference, Breckenridge, CO, Feb 1-7, 2024.

[C73] M. M. Wittal, B. W. Asher, J. D. Smith, M. Nazari, A. M. Cassell, R. L. Ticknor, C. P. Payne, B. P. McCarthy, S. T. Scheuerle, and D. C. Davis, Ballistic Lunar Return Trajectories for Sustainable Cargo Return and Entry System Technology Development, AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, FL, 2024.
[C72]  B. S. McCann and M. Nazari, Application of the Fundamental Equation of Mechanics for Initial Guess Generation in Direct Optimization, AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, FL, 2024.
[C71]  B. S. McCann and M. Nazari, Landing Optimization on the Special Euclidean Group SE(3) under Control and State-Triggered Inequality Constraints, AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, FL, 2024.
[C70]  B. S. McCann, M. Fagetti,  M. Nazari, M. M. Wittal, and J. Smith, Upper State Mass Property Estimation in the Presence of Sloshing Fluids With Low Bond Numbers, International Astronautical Congress, Baku, Azerbaijan, October 2023. 
[C69]  M. M. Wittal, B. W. Asher, B. McCann, and M. Nazari, Autonomous Control for Arbitrary Thruster Configurations and Mass Properties in Special Euclidean Group SE(3), International Astronautical Congress, Baku, Azerbaijan, October 2023. 
[C68] B. S. McCann and M. Nazari, On the Importance of On-Manifold Optimization Techniques for Rigid Body Pose, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, October 2023.
[C67]  M. Fagetti, B. S. McCann, M. Nazari, M. M. Wittal, M. Elmore, and J. D. Smith, Generalized Sloshing Equations of Motion for Any Equivalent Mechanical Model on TSE(3),  AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, MT, August 13-17, 2023.
[C66]  M. M. Wittal and M. Nazari, Autonomous Constrained Control for Arbitrary Configurations of Gimbaling Thrusters in SE(3), AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, MT, August 13-17, 2023. 
[C65]  M. Fagetti, B. S. McCann, M. Nazari, Matthew M. Wittal, M. Elmore, and J. D. Smith, Mass and Inertia Property Estimation on TSE(3) in the Presence of a Sloshing Liquid, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, MT, August 13-17, 2023. 
[C64]  B. S. McCann, M. Fagetti,  M. Nazari, Matthew M. Wittal, and J. D. Smith, Time Varying Mass Property Estimation Utilizing a Joint Unscented Kalman Filter on TSE(3), AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, MT, August 13-17, 2023. 
[C63]  B. S. McCann, A. Anderson,  M. Nazari, and D. Canales, Local Stability of Equilibria in the Circular-Restricted Full Three Body Problem, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, MT, August 13-17, 2023. 
[C62]  A. Anderson, B. S. McCann, D. Canales, and M. Nazari,  Attitude Prediction in a Near-Rectilinear Hal Orbit Within the Geometric Mechancs Framework, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, MT, August 13-17, 2023.
[C61]  B. S. McCann, A. Anderson, M. Nazari,  D.  Canales, and R. Beeson, On-Manifold Pose Optimization on SE(3) for Spacecraft Coverage Maximization, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, MT, August 13-17, 2023.
[C60]  M. Nazari, B. McCann, M. Wittal, M. Fagetti, and J. Smith, Estimation of Rigid Body Inertia Properties with Slosh Dynamics on Special Euclidean Group, SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT23), 2023.
[C59]  A. J. Anderson, B. McCann, D. Canales, and M. Nazari, Orbit and Attitude Coupling in the Full Higher-Fidelity Ephemeris Model within the Context of the Geometric Mechanics Framework, AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Conference, Austin, TX, January 15-19, 2023.
[C58]  B. McCann, A. J. Anderson, M. Nazari, and D. Canales, Rigid-Body Spacecraft Dynamics Analysis in a Binary System Using formulation in Lie Groups, AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Conference, Austin, TX, January 15-19, 2023.
[C57]  B. S. McCann, M. Fagetti, M. M. Wittal, M. Nazari, and J. D. Smith, Mass Property Estimation for Rigid Body Spacecraft on the Special Euclidean Group, AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Conference, Austin, TX, January 15-19, 2023.
[C56]  B. McCann and M. Nazari, Optimal Trajectory Generation for Rigid Body Landing Dynamics on the Special Euclidean Group, AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Conference, Austin, TX, January 15-19, 2023.
[C55]  B. McCann, M. Nazari, M. Wittal, and J. D. Smith, An SE(3)-Based Rigid Body Pose Estimation Scheme for Spacecraft with Unknown Moments of Inertia, AIAA SciTech Forum, 2023.
[C54]  B. McCann, M. Wittal, and M. Nazari, Relative Spacecraft Position and Attitude in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem: TSE(3) vs. Dual Quaternions, AIAA SciTech Forum, 2023.
[C53]  M. Wittal, B. McCann, and M. Nazari, Discriminative Kalman Filtering in Special Euclidean Group SE(3) for Modeling Unknown Spacecraft Environments, AIAA SciTech Forum, 2023.
[C52]  M. Nazari, D. Canales, B. McCann, E. A. Butcher, and K. C. Howell, Full N-Body Problem in the Geometric Mechanics Framework and its Reduction to Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Charlotte, NC, August 7-11, 2022.
[C51]  B. McCann and M. Nazari, Multibody Dynamics on SE(3)n with Applications to Optical System Formation, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Charlotte, NC, August 7-11, 2022.
[C50]  B. S. McCann, H. Gunter V., M. Nazari, and T. Henderson, Generalized Formalism for Variable-Mass-Property Spacecraft Dynamics Utilizing Rigid Body Motion on Lie Groups, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Charlotte, NC, August 7-11, 2022.
[C49]  M. M. Wittal, B. S. McCann, J. Benavides, and M. Nazari, Ambiguity Remediation in Space Launch Vehicles with Parameter Uncertainties: A comparison between special Euclidean group and dual quaternions, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Charlotte, NC, August 7-11, 2022.
[C48]  B. McCann, M. Nazari, and F. E. Udwadia, Analysis of Inequality Constraints in Udwadia-Kalaba Constrained Motion Framework With Applications in Classical Dynamical Systems, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), 2022.
[C47]  J. M. R. Belmonte, B. McCann∗, M. Nazari, and T. Yucelen, Formalism and control of multiagent systems with constraint-changing scenarios without the use of Lagrange multipliers, AIAA SciTech Forum, San Diego, CA, January 3-7, 2022.
[C46]  B. McCann and M. Nazari, Gravitational orbit-attitude perturbations for any degree and order potential models, AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Virtual, 2021.
[C45]  B. McCann and M. Nazari, Extension of Udwadia-Kalaba constrained motion analysis to inequality constraints with applications to trajectory maintenance, AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Virtual, 2021.
[C44]  B. McCann and M. Nazari, Conjugate gradient algorithm for constrained optimization on the special Euclidean group, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, May 23-27, 2021
[C43]  B. McCann, W. Stackhouse, and M. Nazari, Advancement of the Udwadia-Kalaba approach for rigid body constrained motion analysis in geometric mechanics, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, paper AIAA-2021-0976, Nashville, TN, January 11-15, 2021.
[C42]  B. McCann and M. Nazari, Trajectory Optimization within the Geometric Mechanics Framework, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Nashville, TN, January 11-15, 2021.
[C41]  B. McCann and M. Nazari, Utilizing topology data to facilitate geometric control of a spacecraft during lunar landing, AIAA Region II Student Conference, (Best paper of the Master’s category), AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Nashville, TN, January 11-15, 2021.
[C40]  M. Wittal, G. Mangiacapra, A. Appakonam, M. Nazari, and E. Capello, Stochastic Spacecraft Navigation and Control in Lie Group SE(3) Around Small Irregular Bodies, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, paper AAS 20-690, Virtual Lake Tahoe, August 9-12, 2020.
[C39]  H. Kumar, H. Cho, M. Nazari, and T. Henderson, Application of Udwadia-Kalaba Formulation to the Planar Elliptical Restricted Three-Body Problem, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, paper AAS 20-654, Virtual Lake Tahoe, August 9-12, 2020.
[C38]  W. Stackhouse, M. Nazari, T. Henderson, and R. Prazenica, Adaptive control design using the Udwadia-Kalaba formulation for hovering over an asteroid with unknown gravitational parameters, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Orlando, FL, January 6-10, 2020. 
[C37]  W. Stackhouse, M. Nazari, T. Henderson, and T. Yucelen, Spacecraft asteroid hovering using Udwadia-Kalaba formulation with time-varying coefficients, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, paper AAS 19-641, Portland, ME, August 11-15, 2019.
[C36]  M. W. Memon, M. Nazari, D. Seo, and R. Prazenica, Constrained motion analysis and nonlinear optimal tracking control of two-craft Coulomb formation in elliptic chief orbits, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, paper AAS 19-706, Portland, ME, August 11-15, 2019.
[C35]  H. Patel, T. Henderson, and M. Nazari, Application of Udwadia-Kalaba formulation to three-body problem, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, paper AAS 19-805, Portland, ME, August 11-15, 2019.
[C34]  J. Galjanic, D. Seo, and M. Nazari, Relative attitude regulation control using electrostatic torques and cylindrical models, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, paper AAS 19-877, Portland, ME, August 11-15, 2019.
[C33]  M. Maadani, E. A. Butcher, M. Nazari, and T. Yucelen, Decentralized consensus control of rigid bodies using exponential coordinates, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Diego, CA, January 7-11, 2019.
[C32]  D. Seo and M. Nazari, Rigid Body Adaptive Stabilization on the Tangent Bundle of the Lie Groups, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Diego, CA, January 7-11, 2019.
[C31]  A. Dabiri, E. A. Butcher, and M. Nazari, Minimal phase-variable canonical state-space realizations and initializations for linear time-invariant multi-term fractional differential equations, American Control Conference (ACC), Milwaukee, WI, June 27-29, 2018.
[C30]  M. Nazari, M. Maadani, E. A. Butcher, and T. Yucelen, Morse-Lyapunov-based control of rigid body motion on TSE(3) via backstepping, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Kissimmee, FL, January 8-12, 2018.
[C29]  M. Nazari, E. A. Butcher, and A. K. Sanyal, Fractional control of rigid body attitude dynamics using exponential coordinates, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Kissimmee, FL, January 8-12, 2018.
[C28]  E. Arabi, S. B. Sarsilmaz, T. Yucelen, M. Maadani, E. A. Butcher, and M. Nazari, Adaptive control of a rigid body vehicle on exponential coordinates with guaranteed performance, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Kissimmee, FL, January 8-12, 2018.
[C27]  A. Dabiri, M. Nazari, and E. A. Butcher, Adaptive neural-fuzzy inference system to control dynamical systems with fractional order dampers, American Control Conference (ACC), Seattle, WA, May 24-26, 2017.
[C26]  A. Dabiri, M. Nazari, and E. A. Butcher, Chaos analysis and control in fractional-order systems using fractional Chebyshev collocation method, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), Paper No. IMECE2016-67909, Phoenix, AZ, November 11-17, 2016.
[C25]  A. Dabiri, M. Nazari, and E. A. Butcher, Linguistic fuzzy logic control of double inverted pendulum with destabilizing fractional dampers, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), Paper No. IMECE2016-67979, Phoenix, AZ, November 11-17, 2016.
[C24]  E. A. Butcher, M. Nazari, A. Dabiri, and A.K. Sanyal, Fractional PID control of spacecraft attitude dynamics using rotation matrices, 67th International Astronautical Congress, Guadalajara, Mexico, 26-30 September 2016. 
[C23]  A. Dabiri, E. A. Butcher, and M. Nazari, Modeling one-dimensional fractional impact using basic fractional viscoelastic models, Proceedings of the ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), August 21-26, 2016, Charlotte, NC, 2016 (Best paper award).
[C22]  A. Dabiri, M. Nazari, and E. A. Butcher, The spectral parameter estimation method for parameter identification of linear fractional order systems, American Control Conference (ACC), Boston, MA, July 6-8, 2016.
[C21]  A. Dabiri, M. Nazari, and E. A. Butcher, Optimal fractional state feedback control for linear fractional periodic time-delayed systems, American Control Conference (ACC), Boston, MA, July 6-8, 2016.
[C20]  A. Dabiri, M. Nazari, and E. A. Butcher, Explicit harmonic balance method for transition curve analysis of linear fractional periodic time-delayed systems, 12th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, Ann Arbor, MI, 2015.
[C19]  E. A. Butcher and M. Nazari, Decentralized relative position and attitude consensus control of a spacecraft formation with communication delay, 25th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Williamsburg, VA, 2015.
[C18]  M. Nazari, W. Anthony, and E. A. Butcher, Continuous control strategies for halo orbit station-keeping based on techniques for time periodic systems, 24th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 4-7, 2014.
[C17]  E.A. Butcher and M. Nazari, Approximate Transition Boundaries in the Fractional Delayed Mathieu Equation, 8th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, Vienna, Austria, July 6-14, 2014.
[C16]  E.A. Butcher and M. Nazari, Optimal control of spacecraft motion in time-periodic astrodynamic systems, 8th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, Vienna, Austria, July 6-14, 2014.
[C15]  M. Nazari, R. Wauson, T. Critz, E. A. Butcher, and D. J. Scheeres, Observer-based body-frame hovering control over a tumbling asteroid, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, August 11-15, 2013.
[C14]  M. Nazari, A. Mesbahi, and E. A. Butcher, On control of spacecraft relative motion in the case of an elliptic Keplerian chief, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, August 11-15, 2013 (Best session presentation).
[C13]  M. Nazari, O. A. Bobrenkov, and E. A. Butcher, Feedback Control of Periodic Delayed Systems, ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information, Oregon, Portland, August 4-7, 2013.
[C12]  S. Torkamani, M. Nazari, E. Samiei, and E. A. Butcher, Observer-based delayed feedback attitude control for single- and multi-actuator maneuvers, American Control Conference (ACC), Washington DC, June 17-19, 2013 (Best session presentation).
[C11]  M. Nazari, E. A. Butcher, and C. D. Hall, On the stability investigation of single- and dual-spin spacecraft, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Minnesota, Minneapolis, August 13-16, 2012. 
[C10]  A. Larsen, T. Critz, W. Anthony, M. Nazari, M. Ziabakhsh-Deilami, E. A. Butcher, G. Born, and J. McMahon, Optimal transfers with guidance to the Earth-Moon L1 and L3 libration points using invariant manifolds: A Preliminary Study, AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Minnesota, Minneapolis, August 13-16, 2012.
[C9]  M. Nazari, E. Samiei, E. A. Butcher, and H. Schaub. Attitude stabilization using nonlinear delayed actuator control with an inverse dynamics approach, AAS/AIAA Space flight Mechanics Meeting, Charleston, SC, Paper No. 12-237, South Carolina, Charleston, January 29 - February 2, 2012.
[C8]  E. Samiei, M. Nazari, E. A. Butcher, and H. Schaub, Delayed feedback control of rigid body attitude using neural networks and Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, AAS/AIAA Space flight Mechanics Meeting, Charleston, SC, Paper No. 12-168, South Carolina, Charleston. January 29 - February 2, 2012.
[C7]  O. A. Bobrenkov, M. Nazari, and E.A. Butcher, On the analysis of periodic delay differential equations with discontinuous distributed delays, proceedings of 8th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control, District of Columbia, Washington, August 28-31, 2011.
[C6]  M. Sari, M. Nazari, and E. A. Butcher, Free vibration analysis of Kirshhoff plates with damaged boundaries by the Chebyshev collocation and perturbation methods, Proceedings of ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 28 - October 1, 2010.
[C5]  F. Bakhtiari-Nejad and M. Nazari, Nonlinear vibration analysis of rectangular plate with viscoelastic laminate, 15th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV15), Daejeon, South Korea, Korea (South), Daejeon, July 6-10, 2008.
[C4]  M. Nazari and F. Bakhtiari-Nejad, Vibration analysis of rectangular plates, 6th annual International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ISME), University of Shahid Bahonar, Iran, Kerman, July 1-4, 2008.
[C3]  M. Nazari and F. Bakhtiari-Nejad, Transverse vibration analysis of plates with at least two sequent free edges-Part II: Nonlinear analysis, 7th International Conference of Aerospace Science and Technology, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Tehran, February 1-4, 2008.
[C2]  M. Nazari and F. Bakhtiari-Nejad, Transverse vibration analysis of plates with at least two sequent free edges-Part I: Linear analysis, 7th International Conference of Aerospace Science and Technology, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Tehran, February 1-4, 2008.
[C1]  M. Nazari, Rollover analysis of vehicles with two axles (in Persian), 5th annual International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ISME), Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, Tehran, July 1-4, 2007.