Jonathan How
Richard C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Jonathan P. How is the Richard C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research interests include navigation and control; design and implementation of distributed robust planning algorithms to coordinate multiple autonomous vehicles in dynamic uncertain environments; adaptive flight control to enable autonomous agile flight and aerobatics and experimental and theoretical robust control. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and has received the 2020 AIAA Intelligent Systems Award. He earned a BS from the University of Toronto, and an SM and PhD from MIT.
Selected Publications
- Tian, Y., & How, J. P. (2024). Spectral sparsification for Communication-Efficient collaborative rotation and Translation estimation. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 40, 257–276. https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2023.3327635
- Tagliabue, A., Kondo, K., Zhao, T., Peterson, M. P., Tewari, C. T., & How, J. P. (2023). REAL: Resilience and Adaptation using Large Language Models on Autonomous Aerial Robots. 2nd Workshop on Language and Robot Learning: Language as Grounding. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2311.01403
- Ankenbauer, J., Lusk, P. C., Thomas, A., & How, J. P. (2023). Global Localization in Unstructured Environments Using Semantic Object Maps Built from Various Viewpoints. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). https://doi.org/10.1109/iros55552.2023.10342267
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