About - Dr. Claire Walton

About

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of California Santa Cruz, 2015.

B.S. in Mathematics, California Institute of Technology

Computational optimal control
Robust control of nonlinear systems
Parameter uncertainty
Machine learning in real-time control applications
Largescale systems: empirical observability, real-time optimization
Scalable swarm tactics
Autonomous vehicle path planning for mobile sensors, optimal search, and energy-efficient path planning for endurance flight

Contact me at: claire.walton@utsa.edu or on twitter at @ClaireLWalton

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Recent Papers

Consistent numerical methods for state and control constrained trajectory optimisation with parameter dependency

Walton, C., Kaminer, I., & Gong, Q. (2020). International Journal of Control, 1-11.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00207179.2020.1717633
Optimal Multi-Vehicle Motion Planning using Bernstein Approximants

Cichella, V., Kaminer, I., Walton, C., Hovakimyan, N., & Pascoal, A. M. (2020). Optimal Multi-Vehicle Motion Planning using Bernstein Approximants. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

https://doi.org/10.1109/tac.2020.2999329
Partial Observability Analysis of an Adversarial Swarm Model

Gong, Q., Kang, W., Walton, C., Kaminer, I., & Park, H. (2020). Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 43(2), 250-261.

https://doi.org/10.2514/1.g004115
Achievable Endurance of Hybrid UAV Operating in Time-Varying Energy Fields

Dobrokhodov, V., Jones, K. D., Walton, C., & Kaminer, I. I. (2020). In AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum (p. 2197).

https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2020-2197
Energy-optimal Trajectory Planning of Hybrid Ultra-Long Endurance UAV in Time-Varying Energy Fields

Dobrokhodov, V., Jones, K. D., Walton, C., & Kaminer, I. I. (2020). In AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum (p. 2299).

https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2020-2299

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