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Eric Butcher

Member of the Graduate Faculty | Associate Department Head, Undergraduate Studies | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering | Professor, Applied Mathematics - GIDP | Professor, Aerospace-Mechanical Engineering

Aerospace & Mechanical Engr

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Research

Collaboration(19)

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Grants(5)

Space Robotics Technologies Enabling a Servicing Team to Service a Cooperative of Non-Cooperative Client Involving Contact Operations
Active·2024·$150K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
space robotics, servicing team, contact operations, non-cooperative client, cooperative
Nonlinear Oscillator Synchronization and Multi-Agent Consensus on Compact Manifolds with Novel Feedback Coupling and Complex Network Optimization
Active·2023·$800K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
nonlinear dynamics, multi-agent systems, complex networks, synchronization, feedback control
SBIR Phase I: Assured Autonomous Spacecraft GN&C via Hybrid Control
2017·$18.9K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
spacecraft gn&c, autonomous control, hybrid control, assured navigation, space technology
Collaborative Research: Resilient Decentralized Estimation and Control for Cooperative Rigid Body Multivehicle Systems
2016·$250K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
decentralized control, cooperative systems, resilient estimation, rigid body, multivehicle
Characterization Of Non-linearized Spacecraft Relative Motion Using Nonlinear Normal Modes
2014·$46.5K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
spacecraft dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, relative motion, nonlinear normal modes, spacecraft navigation

Publications(125)

Recent

Rigid Body Attitude Cluster Consensus Control on Weighted Cooperative-Competitive Networks

2024

control, networks, cooperative, rigid body, consensus

Slightly Elliptic Quadratic Relative Motion with J2 Effects in Spherical Coordinates: Model and Time-Explicit Solution

2023

celestial mechanics, orbital dynamics, astrodynamics, mathematical modeling, spacecraft trajectory

Rigid Body Attitude Control, Synchronization, and Bipartite Consensus using Feedback Reshaping

2023

attitude control, synchronization, bipartite consensus, feedback reshaping, rigid body

Multi-Agent Spacecraft Attitude Formation and Tracking Control using Reshaping

2023

spacecraft, multi-agent, attitude control, formation control, tracking control

Framework for the Full N-Body Problem in SE(3) and its Reduction to the Circular Restricted Full Three-Body Problem

2023

celestial mechanics, dynamical systems, numerical methods, mathematical physics, computational physics

Pose Consensus Control of Multi-Agent Rigid Body Systems with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Communication Delays

2022

multi-agent systems, consensus control, communication delays, rigid body systems, homogeneous communication

PID Pose Consensus Control of a Multi-Agent Rigid Body System using Exponential Coordinates

2022

multi-agent systems, control, rigid body, pose estimation, exponential coordinates

SE(3)Constrained Extended Kalman Filtering for Rigid Body Pose Estimation

2022

kalman filtering, rigid body, pose estimation, constrained estimation, se(3)

Full N-Body Problem in the Geometric Mechanics Framework and its Reduction to Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem

2022

celestial mechanics, geometric mechanics, n-body problem, reduction methods, dynamical systems

Consensus Control of Rigid Body Spacecraft in Orbital Relative Motion using TSE(3) and Exponential Coordinates

2022

spacecraft control, orbital mechanics, consensus algorithms, rigid body dynamics, exponential coordinates

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Eric Butcher

Collaboration(19)

Nirav Merchant

Roberto Furfaro

Jesse Little

Krishna Muralidharan

Benjamin Weiner

Grants(5)

Space Robotics Technologies Enabling a Servicing Team to Service a Cooperative of Non-Cooperative Client Involving Contact Operations

Nonlinear Oscillator Synchronization and Multi-Agent Consensus on Compact Manifolds with Novel Feedback Coupling and Complex Network Optimization

SBIR Phase I: Assured Autonomous Spacecraft GN&C via Hybrid Control

Collaborative Research: Resilient Decentralized Estimation and Control for Cooperative Rigid Body Multivehicle Systems

Characterization Of Non-linearized Spacecraft Relative Motion Using Nonlinear Normal Modes

Publications(125)

Rigid Body Attitude Cluster Consensus Control on Weighted Cooperative-Competitive Networks

Slightly Elliptic Quadratic Relative Motion with J2 Effects in Spherical Coordinates: Model and Time-Explicit Solution

Rigid Body Attitude Control, Synchronization, and Bipartite Consensus using Feedback Reshaping

Multi-Agent Spacecraft Attitude Formation and Tracking Control using Reshaping

Framework for the Full N-Body Problem in SE(3) and its Reduction to the Circular Restricted Full Three-Body Problem

Pose Consensus Control of Multi-Agent Rigid Body Systems with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Communication Delays

PID Pose Consensus Control of a Multi-Agent Rigid Body System using Exponential Coordinates

SE(3)Constrained Extended Kalman Filtering for Rigid Body Pose Estimation

Full N-Body Problem in the Geometric Mechanics Framework and its Reduction to Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem

Consensus Control of Rigid Body Spacecraft in Orbital Relative Motion using TSE(3) and Exponential Coordinates