• Anthony J. Calise
  • Professor

Contact Information

Office: Knight 421-B
Phone: 404.894.7145
Fax: 404.894.2760
  • anthony.calise@aerospace.gatech.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 1968, University of Pennsylvania
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, 1966, University of Pennsylvania
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1964, Villanova University

Biography

Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, Dr. Calise was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Drexel University for 8 years.  He also worked for 10 years in industry for the Raytheon Missile Systems Division and Dynamics Research Corporation, where he was involved with analysis and design of inertial navigation systems, optimal missile guidance and aircraft flight path optimization.  Since leaving industry he has worked continuously as a consultant for 19 years.  He is the author of over 150 technical reports and papers.  He was the recipient of the USAF Systems Command Technical Achievement Award, and the AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award.  He is a fellow of the AIAA and former Associate Editor for the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics and for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine.  The subject areas that Dr. Calise has published include Optimal Control Theory, Aircraft Flight Control, Optimal Guidance of Aerospace Vehicles,  Adaptive Control using Neural Networks, Robust Linear Control and Control of Flexible Structures.  In the area of adaptive control, Dr. Calise has developed a novel combination for employing neural network-based control in combination with feedback linearization.  Applications include flight control of fighter aircraft, helicopters and missile autopilot design.

Research

Nonlinear and adaptive control, with applications as follows:
  • Flight control of fixed and rotary wing aircraft, guided munitions, guided parafoils and launch vehicles
  • Adaptive image processing applied to vision based guidance and control
  • Control of flexible structures, including robotic arms and large space structures
  • Control of flows via both imbedded actuation and imbedded sensing

Honors and Distinctions

  • Aviation Week Laurel for the year 2000.
  • NASA Certificate of Recognition for Creative Development of a Technical Innovation, “A Study of Fixed Order Mixed Norm Designs for a Benchmark Problem in Structural Control,” Sept. 3, 1997.
  • Fellow of AIAA, 1993.
  • AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award, 1992.
  • USAF Systems Command Technical Achievement Award, 1973.
  • NSF Traineeship for Higher Education, 1964-67.

Selected Publications

  • Kim, B.S., Calise, A.J., and Sattigeri, R., “Adaptive Integrated Guidance and Control Design for Line-of-Sight Based Formation Flight,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 30, No. 5, Sept-Oct 2007, pp.1386-1399.
  • Yang, B-J, Calise, A.J., Craig, J.I., “Adaptive Output Feedback Control of a Flexible Base Manipulator,” AIAA  Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamic, Vol. 30, No. 4, July-Aug 2007, pp. 1068-1080.
  • Yang,, B-J, Calise, A.J., “Adaptive Control of a Class of Nonaffine Systems Using Neural Networks,” IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Vol. 18, No. 4, July 2007, pp. 1149-1159.
  • Johnson, E.N., Calise, A.J., Watanabe, Y., Ha, J. and Neidhoefer, J.C., “Real-Time Vision-Based Relative Aircraft Navigation,” AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing Information and Communication, Vol. 4, April 2007, pp. 707-738.
  • Volyanskyy, K.Y., Calise, A.J., Yang, B-J., and Lavretsky, E., “An Error Minimization Method in Adaptive Control,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Keystone, CO, August 2006.