Avishai Weiss

- Phone: 617-621-7559
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Research / Technical Staff
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Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2013 -
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Biography
Avishai's doctoral research was on spacecraft orbital and attitude control. Prior to the University of Michigan, he studied at Stanford University, where he received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Avishai's interests are in constrained control, model predictive control, and time-varying systems.
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News & Events
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TALK MERL Low-Thrust GEO Satellite Control talk at Stanford University Date & Time: Thursday, February 14, 2019; 1:30 -3:00 PM
Speaker: Avishai Weiss, MERL CD
MERL Hosts: Stefano Di Cairano; Uroš Kalabić; Avishai Weiss
Research Areas: Control, Dynamical SystemsBrief- Avishai Weiss from MERL's Control and Dynamical Systems group will give a talk at Stanford's Aeronautics and Astronautics department titled: "Low-Thrust GEO Satellite Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management via Model Predictive Control". Electric propulsion for satellites is much more fuel efficient than conventional methods. The talk will describe MERL's solution to the satellite control problems deriving from the low thrust provided by electric propulsion.
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NEWS Control and Dynamical Systems members to deliver 10 papers at American Control Conference Date: June 26, 2018 - June 29, 2018
Where: ACC2018 Milwakee
MERL Contacts: Heejin Ahn; Ankush Chakrabarty; Stefano Di Cairano; Uroš Kalabić; Rien Quirynen; Yebin Wang; Avishai Weiss
Research Areas: Control, Dynamical SystemsBrief- At the American Control Conference June 26-29, http://acc2018.a2c2.org/, MERL members will give 10 papers on subjects including model predictive control, embedded optimization, urban path planning, motor control, estimation, and calibration.
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MERL Publications
- "Positive Invariant Sets for Safe Integrated Vehicle Motion Planning and Control", IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 2018. ,
- "Low-thrust GTO-to-GEO trajectory optimization and tracking", Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, August 2018. ,
- "GNSS Ambiguity Resolution by Adaptive Mixture Kalman Filter", International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), July 12, 2018. ,
- "Split-Horizon MPC for Coupled Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of GEO Satellites using Electric Propulsion", American Control Conference (ACC), July 12, 2018. ,
- "On-Off Quantization of an MPC Policy for Coupled Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of GEO Satellites", European Control Conference (ECC), July 11, 2018. ,
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Other Publications
- "Inertia-Free Spacecraft Attitude Control Using Reaction Wheels", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 1425-1439, 2013.BibTeX
- @Article{Weiss2013,
- author = {Weiss, Avishai and Kolmanovsky, Ilya and Bernstein, Dennis S. and Sanyal, Amit},
- title = {Inertia-Free Spacecraft Attitude Control Using Reaction Wheels},
- journal = {Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics},
- year = 2013,
- volume = 36,
- number = 5,
- pages = {1425--1439},
- publisher = {American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics}
- }
, - "Spacecraft Constrained Maneuver Planning for Moving Debris Avoidance Using Positively Invariant Constraint Admissible Sets", Proceedings of the American Control Conference, June 2013.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{weissDebris2013,
- author = {Weiss, A. and Baldwin, M. and Petersen, C. and Erwin, R. S. and Kolmanovsky, I.},
- title = {Spacecraft Constrained Maneuver Planning for Moving Debris Avoidance Using Positively Invariant Constraint Admissible Sets},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the American Control Conference},
- year = 2013,
- address = {Washington, DC},
- month = jun
- }
, - "Inertia-Free Spacecraft Attitude Control with Control-Moment-Gyro Actuation", Proc. AIAA Guid. Nav. Contr. Conf., August 2012, pp. AIAA-2012-5003-282.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{CMGGNC2012,
- author = {Agarwal, K. and Weiss, A. and Kolmanovsky, I. and Bernstein, D. S.},
- title = {Inertia-Free Spacecraft Attitude Control with Control-Moment-Gyro Actuation},
- booktitle = {Proc. AIAA Guid. Nav. Contr. Conf.},
- year = 2012,
- pages = {AIAA--2012--5003--282},
- address = {Minneapolis, MN},
- month = aug,
- note = {AIAA-2012-5003-282}
- }
, - "Inertia-Free Attitude Control Laws Based on Rotation Matrices for Spacecraft with Torquers, Thrusters, and Wheels", Proc. Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack Memorial Symposium on Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control, October 2012, pp. 322-391.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Weiss2012,
- author = {Weiss, A. and Cruz, G. and Agarwal, K. and Rahman, Y. and Medikeri, M. and Xie, A. and Camblor, M. and Kolmanovsky, I. and Bernstein, D. S.},
- title = {Inertia-Free Attitude Control Laws Based on Rotation Matrices for Spacecraft with Torquers, Thrusters, and Wheels},
- booktitle = {Proc. Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack Memorial Symposium on Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control},
- year = 2012,
- pages = {322--391},
- address = {Haifa, Israel},
- month = oct
- }
, - "Forward-Integration Riccati-Based Feedback Control of Magnetically Actuated Spacecraft", AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2012, pp. AIAA-2012-5042-137.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{firmag,
- author = {Weiss, Avishai and Kolmanovsky, Ilya and Bernstein, Dennis S.},
- title = {Forward-Integration Riccati-Based Feedback Control of Magnetically Actuated Spacecraft},
- booktitle = {AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference},
- year = 2012,
- pages = {AIAA--2012--5042--137}
- }
, - "Forward-Integration Riccati-Based Feedback Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous Maneuvers on Elliptic Orbits", Proc. Conf. Dec. Contr, December 2012, pp. 1752 - 1757.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{forriccdc,
- author = {Weiss, Avishai and Kolmanovsky, Ilya and Baldwin, Morgan and Erwin, R. Scott and Bernstein, Dennis S.},
- title = {Forward-Integration Riccati-Based Feedback Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous Maneuvers on Elliptic Orbits},
- booktitle = {Proc. Conf. Dec. Contr},
- year = 2012,
- pages = {1752 -- 1757},
- address = {Maui, HI},
- month = dec
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, - "Spacecraft Debris Avoidance using Positively Invariant Constraint Admissible Sets", Proceedings of AAS Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2012, pp. Paper AAS 12-250.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{ref:baldwin,
- author = {Baldwin, M. and Weiss, A. and Kolmanovsky, I. and Erwin, R. S.},
- title = {Spacecraft Debris Avoidance using Positively Invariant Constraint Admissible Sets},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of AAS Space Flight Mechanics Meeting},
- year = 2012,
- pages = {Paper AAS 12--250},
- address = {Charleston, South Carolina}
- }
, - "Spacecraft Constrained Maneuver Planning using Positively Invariant Constraint Admissible Sets", Proc. Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack Memorial Symposium on Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control, October 2012.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{ref:debrisBarSym,
- author = {Weiss, A. and Baldwin, M. and Erwin, R. S. and Kolmanovsky, I.},
- title = {Spacecraft Constrained Maneuver Planning using Positively Invariant Constraint Admissible Sets},
- booktitle = {Proc. Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack Memorial Symposium on Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control},
- year = 2012,
- address = {Haifa, Israel},
- month = oct
- }
, - "Model Predictive Control of Three Dimensional Spacecraft Relative Motion", Proceedings of the American Control Conference, June 2012, pp. 173-178.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{weisserwin,
- author = {Weiss, A. and Kolmanovsky, I. and Baldwin, M. and Erwin, R. S.},
- title = {Model Predictive Control of Three Dimensional Spacecraft Relative Motion},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the American Control Conference},
- year = 2012,
- pages = {173--178},
- address = {Montreal, Canada},
- month = jun
- }
, - "Forward-Integration Riccati-Based Output-Feedback Control of Linear Time-Varying Systems", Proc. Amer. Conf. Contr, June 2012, pp. 6708-6714.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{weisskolmbern,
- author = {Weiss, A. and Kolmanovsky, I. and Bernstein, D. S.},
- title = {Forward-Integration Riccati-Based Output-Feedback Control of Linear Time-Varying Systems},
- booktitle = {Proc. Amer. Conf. Contr},
- year = 2012,
- pages = {6708--6714},
- address = {Montreal, Canada},
- month = jun
- }
, - "Reaction Wheel Parameter Identification and Control through Receding Horizon-Based Null Motion Excitation", Proc. Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack Memorial Symposium on Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control, October 2012.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{weissreaction,
- author = {Weiss, Avishai and Leve, Frederick and Kolmanovsky, Ilya and Jah, Moriba},
- title = {Reaction Wheel Parameter Identification and Control through Receding Horizon-Based Null Motion Excitation},
- booktitle = {Proc. Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack Memorial Symposium on Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control},
- year = 2012,
- address = {Haifa, Israel},
- month = oct
- }
, - "Inertia-Free Attitude Control of Spacecraft with Unknown Time-Varying Mass Distribution", Proc. 62nd IAC, October 2011, pp. IAC-11-C1.5.9.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{AviTVinertiaIAC2011,
- author = {Weiss, A. and Kolmanovsky, I. and Bernstein, D. S.},
- title = {Inertia-Free Attitude Control of Spacecraft with Unknown Time-Varying Mass Distribution},
- booktitle = {Proc. 62nd IAC},
- year = 2011,
- pages = {IAC--11--C1.5.9},
- address = {Cape Town, South Africa},
- month = oct,
- note = {IAC-11-C1.5.9}
- }
, - "Torque-saturated, inertia-free spacecraft attitude control", AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2011, pp. AIAA-2011-6507-816.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{cruz2011torque,
- author = {Cruz, Gerardo and Yang, Xuebo and Weiss, Avishai and Kolmanovsky, Ilya and Bernstein, Dennis S.},
- title = {Torque-saturated, inertia-free spacecraft attitude control},
- booktitle = {AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference},
- year = 2011,
- pages = {AIAA--2011--6507--816}
- }
, - "Incorporating Risk into Control Design for Emergency Operation of Turbo-Fan Engines", Proc. AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, 2011, pp. AIAA-2011-1591.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{weiss2011incorporating,
- author = {Weiss, Avishai and Kolmanovsky, Ilya and Merrill, Walter},
- title = {Incorporating Risk into Control Design for Emergency Operation of Turbo-Fan Engines},
- booktitle = {Proc. AIAA Infotech@Aerospace},
- year = 2011,
- pages = {AIAA--2011--1591}
- }
, - "Inertia-Free Spacecraft Attitude Control with Reaction-Wheel Actuation", AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2010, pp. AIAA-2010-8297.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{weiss,
- author = {Weiss, A. and Yang, X. and Kolmanovsky, I. and Bernstein, D. S.},
- title = {Inertia-Free Spacecraft Attitude Control with Reaction-Wheel Actuation},
- booktitle = {AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference},
- year = 2010,
- pages = {AIAA--2010--8297}
- }
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- "Inertia-Free Spacecraft Attitude Control Using Reaction Wheels", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 1425-1439, 2013.
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "Concurrent Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of Spacecraft"
Inventors: Weiss, Avishai; Di Cairano, Stefano; Walsh, Alex
Patent No.: 10,180,686
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2019 -
Title: "Methods and Systems for Path Planning Using a Network of Safe-Sets"
Inventors: Danielson, Claus; Weiss, Avishai; Berntorp, Karl; Di Cairano, Stefano
Patent No.: 10,012,988
Issue Date: Jul 3, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Vehicle using Neural Network"
Inventors: Berntorp, Karl; Liu, Ming-Yu; Weiss, Avishai
Patent No.: 9,989,964
Issue Date: Jun 5, 2018 -
Title: "Model Predictive Control with Uncertainties"
Inventors: Di Cairano, Stefano; Weiss, Avishai
Patent No.: 9,983,554
Issue Date: May 29, 2018 -
Title: "Model Predictive Control of Spacecraft"
Inventors: Weiss, Avishai; Di Cairano, Stefano; Kalabic, Uros
Patent No.: 9,874,879
Issue Date: Jan 23, 2018 -
Title: "Model Predictive Control of Spacecraft"
Inventors: Weiss, Avishai; Di Cairano, Stefano; Kalabic, Uros
Patent No.: 9,764,858
Issue Date: Sep 19, 2017
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Title: "Concurrent Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of Spacecraft"