Christian Chilan
Title(s):
Assistant Teaching Professor
Office
2314 Howe
537 Bissell Rd.
Ames, IA 50011
Information
Research Interests
Dynamics, Orbital Mechanics, Control, Artificial Intelligence
Professional Affiliations
Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Member, American Astronomical Society
Education
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publications
Conway, B.A. and Chilan, C.M., “New Optimal Feedback Control Paradigms for a Hypersonic Missile, ” Publication AIAA-Defense2022-9001, AIAA Defense Forum, Laurel, Maryland, 2022.
Chilan, C.M. and Conway, B.A., “Optimal Nonlinear Control Using Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Viscosity Solutions on Unstructured Grids,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2020, pp. 30-38.
Chilan, C.M., Conway, B.A., Bialy, B.J., and Stockbridge, S., “Optimal Nonlinear Feedback with Feedforward Control of High Speed Aerospace Vehicles Using a Spatial Statistical Approach,” Paper AAS-18-215, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Snowbird, Utah, 2018.
Chilan, C.M., Herber, D.R., Nakka, Y.K., Chung, S.-J., Allison, J.T., Aldrich, J.B., and Alvarez-Salazar, O.S., “Co-Design of Strain-Actuated Solar Arrays for Spacecraft Precision Pointing and Jitter Reduction,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 55, No. 9, 2017, pp. 3180-3195.
Baldini, F., Bandyopadhyay, S., Foust, R., Chung, S.-J., Rahmani, A., de la Croix, J.-P., Bacula, A., Chilan, C.M., and Hadaegh, F.Y., “Fast Motion Planning for Agile Space Systems with Multiple Obstacles,” Paper AIAA-2016-5683, AIAA Space, Long Beach, California, 2016.
Chilan, C.M., Herber, D.R., Nakka, Y.K., Chung, S.-J., Allison, J.T., Aldrich, J.B., and Alvarez-Salazar, O.S., “Co-Design of Strain-Actuated Solar Arrays for Precision Pointing and Jitter Reduction,” Paper AIAA-2016-0162, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, San Diego, California, 2016.
Chilan, C.M. and Conway, B.A., “A Reachable Set Analysis Method for Generating Near-Optimal Trajectories of Constrained Multiphase Systems,” Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 167, No. 1, 2015, pp. 161-194.
Chilan, C.M. and Conway, B.A., “Automated Design of Multiphase Space Missions Using Hybrid Optimal Control,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 36, No. 5, 2013, pp. 1410-1424.
Prabhat, Wu, K., Chou, J., Byna, S., Howison, M., Bethel, E.W., Koziol, Q., Cao, P., Charawi, M., Chilan, C., McGreevy, M., Schuchardt, K., and Palmer, B., “Technical Highlights from the ExaHDF5 Project,” Department of Energy Exascale Research Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2012.
Chilan, C.M. and Conway, B.A., “Using Genetic Algorithms for the Construction of a Space Mission Automaton,” 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway, 2009, pp. 2316-2323.
Chilan, C.M. and Conway, B.A., “A Space Mission Automaton Using Hybrid Optimal Control,” Paper AAS 07-115, AIAA/AAS Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Sedona, Arizona, 2007.
Conway, B.A., Chilan, C.M., and Wall, B.J., “Evolutionary Principles Applied to Mission Planning Problems,” Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Vol. 97, No. 2, 2007, pp. 73-86.
Chilan, C.M., Yang, M., Cheng, A., and Arber, L., “Parallel I/O Performance Study with HDF5, A Scientific Data Package,” TeraGrid ’06: Advancing Scientific Discovery, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2006.
Chilan, C.M. and Conway, B.A., “Optimal Low-thrust Supersynchronous-to-Geosynchronous Orbit Transfer,” Paper AAS 03-632, AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 2003.