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The Texas A&M University Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory has had eight papers selected for presentation at the 2018 AIAA SciTech Conference in Kissimmee, Florida. Once paper numbers have been assigned, this post will be updated to reflect the assigned paper numbers.

1. Famularo, Douglas, and Valasek, John,“A Sampled-Data Approach to Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Adaptive Control,” 2018 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Kissimmee, FL, 8 January 2018.
2. Famularo, Douglas, Valasek, John, Muse, Jonathan, and Bolender, Michael, “Adaptive Control of Hypersonic Vehicles Using Observer-Based Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion,” 2018 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Kissimmee, FL, 8 January 2018.
3. Goecks, Vinicius, Leal, Pedro, Valasek, John, and Hartl, Darren, “Control of Morphing Wing Shapes with Deep Reinforcement Learning,” 2018 AIAA Information Systems-AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Kissimmee, FL, 8 January 2018.
4. Harris, Joshua, and Valasek, John, “Direct L1-Adaptive Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Control for Command Augmentation Systems,” 2018 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Kissimmee, FL, 8 January 2018. 
5. Leal, Pedro, Goecks, Vinicius, Valasek, John, and Hartl, Darren, “Experimental and Computational Assessment of a Shape Memory Alloy Based Morphing Wing Incorporating Linear and Non-Linear Control, 2018 AIAA/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Kissimmee, FL, 8 January 2018.
6. Lu, Han Hsun, Rogers, Cameron, Goecks, Vinicius, and Valasek, John, “Online Near Rear Time System Identification on a Fixed-Wing Small Unmanned Air Vehicle,” 2018 AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Kissimmee, FL, 8 January 2018.
7. Noren, Charles, Valasek, John, and Rogers, Cameron, “Flight Testing of Intelligent Motion Video Guidance for Unmanned Air System Ground Target Surveillance ,” 2018 AIAA Information Systems-AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Kissimmee, FL, 8 January 2018.
8. Saha, Dipanjan, Valasek, John, Famularo, Douglas, and Reza, Mohammad, “Combined Longitudinal and Lateral/Directional Maneuvers of a Generic F-16A Using Multiple-Time-Scale Control,” 2018 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Kissimmee, FL, 8 January 2018.

VSCL Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. candidate Vinicius Goecks was one of 32 students selected from a pool over 800 applicants to participate in the prestigious Caltech Space Challenge. The Caltech Space Challenge is a 5-day international student space mission design competition where students interface with experts from industry and receive direct feedback from the NASA JPL Architecture Team. This year’s challenge was to propose a mission design for a mining base at the Lunar pole which would support deep-space missions. Resulting from his involvement, Vinicius coauthored two papers, listed below:

1. Vinicius G. Goecks and Voyager Team. “Enabling Deep Space Exploration with an In-Space Propellant Depot Supplied from Lunar Ice,” AIAA Space Forum, USA, 2017. Submitted.
2. Vinicius G. Goecks and Voyager Team. “The Lunarport Concept – A Launch and Supply Station for Deep Space Missions: A Comparative Study of the Study of the Two Concepts Developed at the 2017 Caltech Space Challenge,” 10th IAA Symposium on the Future of Space Exploration, Italy, 2017. Submitted.