Journal Publications

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1. Fabio D’Onofrio and Renato Zanetti. A Novel Approach to Autonomous Lunar Localization and Timing. Accepted for publication by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. doi:10.2514/1.G007613
2. S.P. Arjun Ram, Maruthi R. Akella, and Renato Zanetti. Angular velocity estimation using rate-integrating gyro measurements. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 46(8), August 2023 2023. doi:10.2514/1.G007344
3. Bryan S. Pogorelsky, Renato Zanetti, Jingyi Chen, and Scott Jenkins. Synthetic aperture radar based spacecraft terrain relative navigation. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 59(5), September 2022. doi:10.2514/1.A35067
4. Sehyun Yun, Renato Zanetti, Brandon A. Jones. Kernel-Based Ensemble Gaussian Mixture Filtering for Orbit Determination with Sparse Data. Journal of Advances in Space Research, 69(12):4179–4197, 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2022.03.041
5. Simone Servadio, Renato Zanetti and Roberto Armellin. Maximum A Posteriori Estimation of Hamiltonian Systems with High Order Taylor Polynomials. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences. 69(2):511–536, 2022. doi:10.1007/s40295-022-00304-4
6. Sehyun Yun and Renato Zanetti. Clustering Methods for Particle Filters with Gaussian Mixture Models. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 58(2):1109–1118, 2022. doi: 10.1109/TAES.2021.3117655
7. Simone Servadio and Renato Zanetti. Estimation Of The Conditional State And Covariance with Taylor Polynomials. Journal of Advances in Information Fusion. 16(2):126–142, December 2021.
8. Simone Servadio and Renato Zanetti. Differential Algebra Based Multiple Gaussians Particle Filter for Orbit Determination. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 191(2):459–485, 2021. doi: 10.1007/s10957-021-01934-8
9. Simone Servadio, Renato Zanetti, Brandon A. Jones. Nonlinear Filtering with a Polynomial Series of Gaussian Random Variables. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 57(1):647-658, February 2021. doi: 10.1109/TAES.2020.3028487
10. Rahul Moghe, Renato Zanetti. A Deep Learning Approach to Hazard Detection for Autonomous Lunar Landing. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 67(4):1811-1830, December 2020. doi: 10.1007/s40295-020-00239-8
11. Sehyun Yun, Kirsten Tuggle, Renato Zanetti, and Christopher D’Souza. Sensor Configuration Trade Study for Navigation in Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 67(4):1755-1774, December 2020. doi:10.1007/s40295-020-00224-1.
12. Sehyun Yun and Renato Zanetti. Nonlinear Filtering of Light-Curve Data. Advances in Space Research, 66(7):1672-1688, October 2020. doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2020.06.024
13. Marcelino M. de Almeida, Daniele Mortari, Renato Zanetti and Maruthi Akella. QuateRA: The Quaternion Regression Algorithm. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 43(9):1600-1616, September 2020. doi: 10.2514/1.G004375
14. Simone Servadio and Renato Zanetti. Recursive Polynomial Minimum Mean-Square Error Estimation with Applications to Orbit Determination. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 43(5):939-954, May 2020. doi: 10.2514/1.G004544.
15. Rahul Moghe, Renato Zanetti, and Maruthi Akella. Adaptive Kalman Filter for Detectable Linear Time Invariant Systems.  Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 42(10):2197–2205, October 2019. doi: 10.2514/1.G004359 
16. Sehyun Yun and Renato Zanetti. Sequential Monte Carlo Filtering with Gaussian Mixture Sampling. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 42(9):2069–2077, September 2019. doi: 10.2514/1.G004403
17. Renato Zanetti. Rotations, Transformations, Left Quaternions, Right Quaternions? The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 66(3):361–381, September 2019. doi: 10.1007/s40295-018-00151-2.
18. Christopher D’Souza and Renato Zanetti. Information Formulation of the UDU Kalman Filter. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 55(1):493-498, February 2019. doi: 10.1109/TAES.2018.2850379.
19. Renato Zanetti and Kyle J. DeMars. Fully Multiplicative Unscented Kalman Filter for Attitude Estimation. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 41(5):1183-1189, May 2018. doi: 10.2514/1.G003221.
20. Kirsten Tuggle and Renato Zanetti. Automated Splitting Gaussian Mixture Nonlinear Measurement Update. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 41(3):725-734, March 2018.  doi: 10.2514/1.G003109.
21. Renato Zanetti, Greg N. Holt, Robert S. Gay, Chris D’Souza, Jastesh Sud, Harvey Mamich, and Robert Gillis. Design and Flight Performance of the Orion Pre-Launch Navigation System. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 40(9):2289–2300, Sept. 2017. doi: 10.2514/1.G002666.
22. Renato Zanetti, Greg N. Holt, Robert S. Gay, Chris D’Souza, Jastesh Sud, Harvey Mamich, Micheal Bagley, Ellis King, and Fred Clark. Orion Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT1) Absolute Navigation Performance. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 40(5):1106-1116 May 2017. doi: 10.2514/1.G002371.
23. Francesco De Dilectis, Daniele Mortari, and Renato Zanetti. Bezier Description of Space Trajectories. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 39(11):2535–2539, November 2016. doi: 10.2514/1.G000719.
24. Roberto Armellin, Pierluigi Di Lizia, and Renato Zanetti. Dealing with uncertainties in angles-only initial orbit determination. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 125(4):435–450, 2016. doi: 10.1007/s10569- 016-9694-z.
25. Daniele Mortari, Christopher D’Souza, and Renato Zanetti. Image Processing of Illuminated Ellipsoid. Journal of Spacecraft and Rocket, 53(3):448–456, May–June 2016. doi: 10.2514/1.A33342.
26. Renato Zanetti and Christopher D’Souza. Observability Analysis and Filter Design for the Orion Earth- Moon Attitude Filter. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 39(2):201–213, February 2016. doi: 10.2514/1.G001217.
27. Daniele Mortari, Francesco De Dilectis, and Renato Zanetti. Position Estimation using Image Derivative. Aerospace, 2(3):435–460, September 2015. doi: 10.3390/aerospace2030435.
28. Renato Zanetti. Adaptable Recursive Update Filter. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 38(7):1295– 1300, July 2015. doi: 10.2514/1.G001031.
29. Thomas Ainscough, Renato Zanetti, John Christian, and Pol Spanos. q-Method Extended Kalman Filter. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 38(4):752–760, April 2015. doi: 10.2514/1.G000118.
30. Renato Zanetti and Christopher D’Souza. Recursive Implementations of the Schmidt-Kalman Consider Filter. Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 60(3–4):672–685, July–December 2013. doi: 10.1007/s40295-015-0068-7.
31. Renato Zanetti and Kyle J. DeMars. Joseph Formulation of Unscented and Quadrature Filters with Application to Consider States. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 36(6):1860–1864, November–December 2013. doi: 10.2514/1.59935.
32. Renato Zanetti and Christopher D’Souza. Dual Accelerometer Usage Strategy for Onboard Spacecraft Navigation. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 35(6):1899–1901, November–December 2012. doi: 10.2514/1.58154.
33. Renato Zanetti. Recursive Update Filtering for Nonlinear Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 57(6):1481–1490, June 2012. doi:10.1109/TAC.2011.2178334.
34. Renato Zanetti, David Woffinden, and Adam Sievers. Multiple Event Triggers in Linear Covariance Analysis for Spacecraft Rendezvous. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 35(2):353–366, March–April 2012. doi: 10.2514/1.54965.
35. Renato Zanetti and Robert H. Bishop. Kalman Filters with Uncompensated Biases. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 35(1):327–330, January–February 2012. doi: 10.2514/1.55120.
36. Renato Zanetti. Optimal Glideslope Guidance for Spacecraft Rendezvous. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 34(5):1593–1597, September–October 2011. doi: 10.2514/1.54103.
37. Renato Zanetti, Kyle J. DeMars, and Robert H. Bishop. Underweighting Nonlinear Measurements. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 33(5):1670–1675, September–October 2010. doi: 10.2514/1.50596.
38. Renato Zanetti. A Multiplicative Residual Approach to Attitude Kalman Filtering with Unit-Vector Measurements. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 57(4):793–801, October–December 2009. doi: 10.1007/BF03321530.
39. Renato Zanetti, Manoranjan Majji, Robert H. Bishop, and Daniele Mortari. Norm-Constrained Kalman Filtering. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 32(5):1458–1465, September–October 2009. doi: 10.2514/1.43119.
40. Renato Zanetti. Autonomous Midcourse Navigation for Lunar Return. Journal of Spacecrafts and Rockets, 46(4):865–873, July–August 2009. doi: 10.2514/1.41769.
41. Renato Zanetti and Robert H. Bishop. A New Method to Introduce A Priori Information in QUEST. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 55(4):451–461, October–December 2007. doi: 10.1007/BF03256535.
42. Maruthi R. Akella, Dongeun Seo, and Renato Zanetti. Attracting Manifolds for Attitude Estimation in Flatland and Otherlands. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 54(3 and 4):635–655, July–December 2006. doi: 10.1007/BF03256510.