Publications

PhD Thesis

Autonomy for Sensor-Rich Vehicles: Interaction between Sensing and Control Actions (pdf)
Gabriel M. Hoffmann
PhD thesis, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2008

Journal Articles

Precision Flight Control for A Multi-Vehicle Quadrotor Helicopter Testbed (pdf)
Gabriel M. Hoffmann, Haomiao Huang, Steven L. Waslander, and Claire J. Tomlin
In Control Engineering Practice, Volume 19, Issue 9, pp. 1023-1036, Sept. 2011

Applications of hybrid reachability analysis to robotic aerial vehicles (pdf)
Jeremy H. Gillula, Gabriel M. Hoffmann, Haomiao Huang, Michael P. Vitus, and Claire J. Tomlin
In The International Journal of Robotics Research, Volume 30, Number 3, pp. 335-354, March 2011

Mobile Sensor Network Control using Mutual Information Methods and Particle Filters (pdf)
Gabriel M. Hoffmann and Claire J. Tomlin
In IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 55, Number 1, pp. 32-47, Jan. 2010

Junior: The Stanford Entry in the Urban Challenge (pdf)
M. Montemerlo, J. Becker, S. Bhat, H. Dahlkamp, D. Dolgov, S. Ettinger, D. Haehnel, T. Hilden, G. Hoffmann, B. Huhnke, D. Johnston, S. Klumpp, D. Langer, A. Levandowski, J.Levinson, J. Marcil, D. Orenstein, J. Paefgen, I. Penny, A. Petrovskaya, M. Pflueger, G. Stanek, D. Stavens, A. Vogt, and S. Thrun
In Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 25 Issue 9, pp. 569 - 597, Sept. 2008

Stanley: The Robot that Won the DARPA Grand Challenge (pdf)
S. Thrun, M. Montemerlo, H. Dahlkamp, D. Stavens, A. Aron, J. Diebel, P. Fong, J. Gale, M. Halpenny, G. Hoffmann, K. Lau, C. Oakley, M. Palatucci, V. Pratt, P. Stang, S. Strohband, C. Dupont, L.-E. Jendrossek, C. Koelen, C. Markey, C. Rummel, J. van Niekerk, E. Jensen, P. Alessandrini, G. Bradski, B. Davies, S. Ettinger, A. Kaehler, A. Nefian, and P. Mahoney,
In Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 23, Number 9, pp. 661-692, Sept. 2006

Conference Papers

Aerodynamics and Control of Autonomous Quadrotor Helicopters in Aggressive Maneuvering (pdf)
Haomiao Huang, Gabriel Hoffmann, Steven Lake Waslander, Claire Tomlin
In Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, May 2009

Decentralized Cooperative Collision Avoidance for Acceleration Constrained Vehicles (pdf)
Gabriel M. Hoffmann and Claire J. Tomlin
In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 2008

Quadrotor Helicopter Trajectory Tracking Control (pdf)
Gabriel M. Hoffmann, Steven L. Waslander, and Claire J. Tomlin
In Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Honolulu, HI, AIAA Paper Number 2008-7410, Aug. 2008

Tunnel-MILP: Path Planning with Sequential Convex Polytopes (pdf)
Michael P. Vitus, Vijay Pradeep, Gabriel M. Hoffmann, Steven L. Waslander, and Claire J. Tomlin
In Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Honolulu, HI, AIAA Paper Number 2008-7132, Aug. 2008

Fault Tolerance of Relative Navigation Sensing in Docking Approach of Spacecraft (pdf)
Dimitry Gorinevsky, Gabriel M. Hoffmann, Marina Shmakova, Robert W. Mah, Scott Cryan Cryan, and Jennifer D. Mitchell
In Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MN, March, 2008

Quadrotor Helicopter Flight Dynamics and Control: Theory and Experiment (pdf)
Gabriel M. Hoffmann, Haomiao Huang, Steven L. Waslander, and Claire J. Tomlin,
In Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Hilton Head, SC, AIAA Paper Number 2007-6461, Aug. 2007

Fault Tolerant Relative Navigation using Inertial and Relative Sensors (pdf)
Gabriel M. Hoffmann, Dimitry Gorinevsky, Robert W. Mah, Claire J. Tomlin, and Jennifer D. Mitchell
In Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Hilton Head, SC, AIAA Paper Number 2007-6789, Aug. 2007

Autonomous Automobile Trajectory Tracking for Off-Road Driving: Controller Design, Experimental Validation and Racing (pdf)
Gabriel M. Hoffmann, Claire J. Tomlin, Michael Montemerlo, and Sebastian Thrun
In Proceedings of the 26th American Control Conference, New York, NY, July 2007

Online Speed Adaptation using Supervised Learning for High-Speed, Off-Road Autonomous Driving (pdf)
David Stavens, Gabriel Hoffmann, and Sebastian Thrun
In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI07), Hyderabad, India, Jan. 2007

Mutual Information Methods with Particle Filters for Mobile Sensor Network Control (pdf)
Gabriel M. Hoffmann, Steven L. Waslander, and Claire J. Tomlin
In Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, Dec. 2006

Distributed Cooperative Search using Information-Theoretic Costs for Particle Filters with Quadrotor Applications (pdf)
Gabriel M. Hoffmann, Steven L. Waslander, and Claire J. Tomlin
Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Keystone, CO, AIAA Paper Number 2006-6576, Aug. 2006

Multi-Agent Quadrotor Testbed Design: Integral sliding Mode vs. Reinforcement Learning (pdf)
Steven L. Waslander, Gabriel Hoffmann, Jung Soon Jang, and Claire J. Tomlin
In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005), Edmonton, AB, Canada, pp. 468-473, Aug. 2005

The Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi Agent Control (STARMAC) (pdf)
Gabriel M. Hoffmann, Dev Gorur Rajnarayan, Steven L. Waslander, David Dostal, Jung Soon Jang, and Claire J. Tomlin
In Proceedings of the 23rd Digital Avionics System Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 12.E.4/1-10, Nov. 2004