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Zamaro, Mattia and Biggs, James D. (2016) Identification of new orbits to enable future mission oppportunities for the human exploration of the Martian moon Phobos. Acta Astronautica, 119. pp. 160-182. ISSN 0094-5765

Zamaro, Mattia and Biggs, James (2015) Natural motion around the Martian moon Phobos : The dynamical substitutes of the libration point orbits in an elliptical three-body problem with gravity harmonics. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 122 (3). pp. 263-302. ISSN 0923-2958

Jamieson, Jonathan and Biggs, James (2015) Path planning using concatenated analytically-defined trajectories for quadrotor UAVs. Aerospace, 2 (2). pp. 155-170. ISSN 2052-451X

Han, Yu and Biggs, James and Cui, Naigang (2015) Adaptive flault-tolerant control of spacecraft attitude dynamics with actuator failures. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics. ISSN 1533-3884

Maclean, Craig David and Pagnozzi, Daniele and Biggs, James (2014) Planning natural repointing manoeuvres for nano-spacecraft. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 50 (3). pp. 2129-2145. ISSN 0018-9251

Ceccaroni, Marta and Biscani, Francesco and Biggs, James (2014) Analytical method for perturbed frozen orbit around an Asteroid in highly inhomogeneous gravitational fields : A first approach. Astronomicheskii Vestnik / Solar System Research, 48 (1). pp. 33-47. ISSN 0038-0946

Heiligers, Jeannette and Ceriotti, Matteo and McInnes, Colin and Biggs, James (2014) Mission analysis and systems design of a near-term and far-term pole-sitter mission. Acta Astronautica, 94 (1). pp. 455-469. ISSN 0094-5765

Maclean, Craig David and Biggs, James (2013) Path planning for simple wheeled robots : sub-Riemannian and elastic curves on SE(2). Robotica, 31 (08). pp. 1285-1297. ISSN 0263-5747

Ceccaroni, Marta and Biggs, James (2013) Analytic perturbative theories in highly inhomogeneous gravitational fields. Icarus, 224 (1). pp. 74-85. ISSN 0019-1035

Ceccaroni, Marta and Biggs, James and Biasco, Luca (2012) Analytic estimates and topological properties of the weak stability boundary. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 114 (1-2). pp. 1-24. ISSN 0923-2958

Heiligers, Jeannette and Ceriotti, Matteo and McInnes, Colin and Biggs, James (2012) Design of optimal Earth pole-sitter transfers using low-thrust propulsion. Acta Astronautica, 79. pp. 253-268. ISSN 0094-5765

Linton, Carol and Holderbaum, William and Biggs, James (2012) Rigid body trajectories in different 6D spaces. ISRN Mathematical Physics, 2012. 467520. ISSN 2090-4673

Biggs, James and Horri, Nadjim (2012) Optimal geometric motion planning for a spin-stabilized spacecraft. Systems and Control Letters, 61 (4). pp. 609-616. ISSN 0167-6911

Heiligers, Jeannette and McInnes, Colin and Biggs, James and Ceriotti, Matteo (2012) Displaced geostationary orbits using hybrid low-thrust propulsion. Acta Astronautica, 71. pp. 51-67. ISSN 0094-5765

Ceccaroni, Marta and Biggs, James (2012) Low thrust propulsion in a coplanar circular restricted four body problem. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 112 (2). pp. 191-219. ISSN 0923-2958

Biggs, James and Bennet, Derek James and Dadzie, Kokou (2012) Time-delayed autosynchronous swarm control. Physical Review E, 85 (1). 016105. ISSN 2470-0053

Heiligers, Jeannette and Ceriotti, Matteo and McInnes, Colin and Biggs, James (2011) Displaced geostationary orbit design using hybrid sail propulsion. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 34 (6). pp. 1852-1866. ISSN 1533-3884

Macdonald, Malcolm and Mckay, Robert and Vasile, Massimiliano and Bosquillon de Frescheville, Francois and Biggs, James and McInnes, Colin (2011) Low-thrust enabled highly non-Keplerian orbits in support of future Mars exploration. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 34 (5). pp. 1396-1411. ISSN 1533-3884

Mckay, Robert J. and Macdonald, Malcolm and Biggs, James and McInnes, Colin (2011) Survey of highly non-Keplerian orbits with low-thrust propulsion. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 34 (3). pp. 645-666. ISSN 1533-3884

Biggs, James and Holderbaum, William (2010) Integrable quadratic Hamiltonians on the Euclidean group of motions. Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, 16 (3). pp. 301-317. ISSN 1079-2724

Biggs, James D. and McInnes, Colin R. (2010) Passive orbit control for space-based geo-engineering. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 33 (3). pp. 1017-1020. ISSN 1533-3884

Biggs, James D. and McInnes, Colin R. (2009) Time-delayed feedback control in astrodynamics. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 32 (6). pp. 1804-1811. ISSN 1533-3884

Biggs, James and Holderbaum, William (2009) Optimal kinematic control of an autonomous underwater vehicle. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 54 (7). pp. 1623-1626. ISSN 0018-9286

Biggs, James and McInnes, Colin (2009) Solar sail formation flying for deep-space remote sensing. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 46 (3). pp. 670-678. ISSN 0022-4650

Biggs, James D. and McInnes, Colin R. and Waters, Thomas (2009) Control of solar sail periodic orbits in the elliptic three-body problem. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 32 (1). pp. 318-320. ISSN 1533-3884

Biggs, James and Holderbaum, William (2008) Planning rigid body motions using elastic curves. Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, 20 (4). pp. 351-367. ISSN 0932-4194

Biggs, James and Holderbaum, William and Jurdjevic, Velimir (2007) Singularities of optimal control problems on some six dimensional Lie groups. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 52 (6). pp. 1027-1038. ISSN 0018-9286

Book Section

Pagnozzi, Daniele and Biggs, James; (2014) Dynamical analysis of an orbiting three-rigid-body system. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences (ICNPAA 14). AIP Conference Proceedings, 1637 . American Institute of Physics, NOR, pp. 786-795. ISBN 978-0-7354-1276-7

Zamaro, Mattia and Biggs, James; (2014) Dynamical systems techniques for designing libration point orbits in proximity of highly-inhomogeneous planetary satellites : Application to the Mars-Phobos elliptic three-body problem with additional gravity harmonics. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences (ICNPAA 14). AIP Conference Series, 1637 . American Institute of Physics, NOR, pp. 1228-1240. ISBN 978-0-7354-1276-7

Caubet, Albert and Biggs, James D.; (2014) Design of an attitude stabilization electromagnetic module for detumbling uncooperative targets. In: 2014 IEEE Aerospace Conference. IEEE Computer Society Press, GBR. ISBN 9781479916221

Heiligers, Jeannette and Ceriotti, Matteo and McInnes, Colin and Biggs, James; (2012) Mission analysis and systems design of a near-term and far-term pole-sitter mission. In: Advances in the Astronautical Sciences. Univelt Inc, PRT, pp. 1151-1170. ISBN 978-0-87703-587-9

Biggs, James; (2011) Optimal path planning for nonholonomic robotics systems via parametric optimisation. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, GBR. ISBN 978-3-642-23231-2

Biggs, J.D. and Waters, T. and McInnes, C.R.; Machado, J.A.T. and Luo, A.C.J. and Barbosa, R.S. and Silva, M.F. and Figueiredo, L.B., eds. (2011) New periodic orbits in the solar sail three-body problem. In: Nonlinear Science and Complexity. Springer, Porto, Portugal, pp. 131-138. ISBN 9789048198832

Conference or Workshop Item

Biggs, James (2015) A quaternion-based attitude tracking controller for robotic systems. In: IMA Conference on Mathematics of Robotics, 2015-09-09 - 2015-09-11, University of Oxford, St Anne's College.

Zamaro, Mattia and Biggs, James (2014) Identification of new orbits to enable future mission opportunities for the human exploration of the martian moon Phobos. In: 65th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2014), 2014-09-29 - 2014-10-03, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Biggs, James and Horri, Nadjim (2014) An exponentially fast attitude tracking controller on the rotation group. In: 65th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2014), 2014-09-29 - 2014-10-03, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Pagnozzi, Daniele and Biggs, James (2014) Dynamical analysis of an orbiting three-rigid-body system. In: International Congress on Nonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aeronautics, ICNPAA 2014, 2014-07-15 - 2014-07-18.

Zamaro, Mattia and Biggs, James (2014) Dynamical systems techniques for designing libration point orbits in proximity of highly-inhomogeneous planetary satellites : Application to the Mars-Phobos elliptic three-body problem with additional gravity harmonics. In: International Congress on Nonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aeronautics, ICNPAA 2014, 2014-07-15 - 2014-07-18.

Han, Yu and Biggs, James and Cui, Naigang (2014) An application of adaptive fault-tolerant control to nano-spacecraft. In: 2nd Conference on Dynamics and Control of Space Systems, DyCoSS2, 2014-03-24 - 2014-03-26.

Pagnozzi, Daniele and Biggs, James (2014) Lyapunov characteristic exponent maps for multi-body space systems analysis. In: AIAA SciTech 2014, 2014-01-13 - 2014-01-17, Washington.

Biggs, James and Maclean, Craig David and Caubet, Albert (2013) Heteroclinic optimal control solutions for attitude motion planning. In: Australian Control Conference, ACC 2013, 2013-11-04 - 2013-11-05.

Caubet, Albert and Biggs, James (2013) Optimal attitude motion planner for large slew manoeuvers using a shape-based method. In: AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference 2013, 2013-08-19 - 2013-08-22.

Biggs, James (2013) Quadratic Hamiltonians on non-Euclidean spaces of arbitrary constant curvature. In: European Control Conference, ECC 2013, 2013-07-17 - 2013-07-19.

Pagnozzi, Daniele and Maclean, Craig David and Biggs, James (2013) A new approach to the solution of free rigid body motion for attitude manoeuvers. In: European Control Conference, ECC 2013, 2013-07-17 - 2013-07-19.

Ceccaroni, Marta and Biggs, James (2012) Analytical perturbation method for frozen orbits around the asteroid 433 Eros. In: 63rd International Astronautical Congress, 2012-10-01 - 2012-10-05.

Maclean, Craig David and Biggs, James (2012) Attitude motion planning for a spin stabilised disk sail. In: 63rd International Astronautical Congress, 2012-10-01 - 2012-10-05.

Ceccaroni, Marta and Biscani, Francesco and Biggs, James (2012) Analytical method for perturbed frozen orbit around an asteroid in highly inhomogeneous gravitational fields. In: 2012 Analytical Methods in Celestial Mechanics, 2012-09-26 - 2012-09-29.

Pierce, Stephen and Punzo, Giuliano and Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul and MacLeod, Charles Norman and McInnes, Colin and Biggs, James and Macdonald, Malcolm and Bennet, Derek James (2012) Reconfigurable robotic platforms for structural health monitoring. In: 6th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring & 1st European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society, 2012-07-03 - 2012-07-06.

Linton, Carol and Holderbaum, William and Biggs, James (2012) Closed form solution for p-curves in SO(4). In: American Control Conference, 2012-06-27 - 2012-06-29.

Heiligers, Jeannette and Ceriotti, Matteo and McInnes, Colin and Biggs, James (2012) Mission analysis and systems design of a near-term and far-term pole-sitter mission. In: 1st IAA Conference on Dynamics and Control of Space Systems, 2012-03-19 - 2012-03-21.

Heiligers, Jeannette and Ceriotti, Matteo and McInnes, Colin and Biggs, James (2012) Design of optimal transfers between North and South Pole-sitter orbits. In: 22nd AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting, 2012-01-29 - 2012-02-02.

Maclean, Craig David and Pagnozzi, Daniele and Biggs, James (2011) Computationally light attitude controls for resource limited nano-spacecraft. In: 62nd International Astronautical Congress 2011, 2011-10-03 - 2011-10-07.

Heiligers, Jeannette and Ceriotti, Matteo and McInnes, Colin and Biggs, James (2011) Design of optimal Earth pole-sitter transfers using low thrust propulsion. In: 62nd International Astronautical Congress 2011, 2011-10-03 - 2011-10-07.

Ceccaroni, Marta and Biggs, James (2011) Nonlinearly stable equilibria in the Sun-Jupiter-Trojan-Spacecraft four body problem. In: 62nd International Astronautical Congress 2011, 2011-10-03 - 2011-10-07.

Ceccaroni, M. and Biggs, J.D. (2010) Extension of low-thrust propulsion to the autonomous coplanar circular restricted four body problem with application to future Trojan Asteroid missions. In: 61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010, 2010-09-27 - 2010-10-01.

Biggs, J.D. (2010) Singularities of optimal attitude motions. In: 18th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, ACA 2010, 2010-09-06 - 2010-09-10.

Bennet, Derek J. and Biggs, J.D. and McInnes, C.R. and Macdonald, M. (2010) An analysis of dissipation functions in swarming systems. In: 18th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, ACA 2010, 2010-09-06 - 2010-09-10.

McKay, Robert and Macdonald, Malcolm and Bosquillon de Frescheville, Francois and Vasile, Massimiliano and McInnes, Colin and Biggs, James (2009) Non-Keplerian orbits using low thrust, high ISP propulsion systems. In: 60th International Astronautical Congress, 2009-10-12 - 2009-10-16.

Holderbaum, William and Biggs, James (2009) Oriented vehicles travelling in spherical space. In: The 11th IASTED International Conference on Control and its Applications, 2009-07-13 - 2009-07-15.

Biggs, James and McInnes, Colin R. (2009) An optimal gains matrix for time-delay feedback control. In: 2nd IFAC Conference on the Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems (CHAOS 09), 2009-06-22 - 2009-06-24.

Biggs, J.D. and McInnes, C. and Waters, T. (2008) Stabilizing periodic orbits above the elliptic plane in the solar sail 3-body problem. In: 59th International Astronautical Congress, 2008-09-29 - 2008-10-03.

Biggs, J.D. and McInnes, C. and Waters, Thomas (2008) New periodic orbits in the solar sail restricted three body problem. In: 2nd Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity, 2008-07-28 - 2008-07-31.

Biggs, James and Holderbaum, William (2008) Integrable Hamiltonian systems defined on the Lie groups SO(3) and SU(2) : an application to the attitude control of a spacecraft. In: 5th Wismar Symposium on Automatic Control, AUTSYM'08, 2008-09-18 - 2008-09-19.

Biggs, James and Holderbaum, William (2007) Integrating Hamiltonian systems defined on the Lie groups SO(4) and SO(1,3). In: The 45th European Control Conference (ECC '07), 2007-07-02 - 2007-07-05.

Biggs, J.D. and Holderbaum, William (2006) Integrating control systems defined on the frame bundles of the space forms. In: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2006-12-13 - 2006-12-15.

Biggs, James and Holderbaum, William (2006) The geometry of optimal control problems on some six dimensional lie groups. In: 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control/European Control Conference, 2005-12-12.

Report

Ceccaroni, Marta and Biggs, James and Biscani, Francesco (2012) Analytical perturbative theories of motion in highly inhomogeneous gravitational fields : Ariadna AO/1-6790/11/NL/CBI. European Space Agency.