Craig Woolsey

Affiliation

Professor, Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

Edudation

Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2001
M.A., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 1997 
B.M.E., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1995

Selected Honors

Virginia Tech College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research

Virginia Tech College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Service

NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award

ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award

Selected Papers

“A structure-inspired disturbance observer for finite-dimensional mechanical systems,” Y.-C. Chen and C. A. Woolsey. IEEE Trans. Control Systems Tech. 32(2), pp. 440-455, March 2024.

“An approach for computing parameters for a Lagrangian nonlinear maneuvering and seakeeping model of submerged vessel motion,” S. Jung, S. Brizzolara, and C. A. Woolsey. IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, 46(3), pp. 749 – 764, March 2021. 

“Model-based path planning,” A. Wolek and C. A. Woolsey, In: Sensing and Control for Autonomous Vehicles: Applications to Land, Water and Air Vehicles, T. I. Fossen, K. Y. Pettersen, and H. Nijmeijer, Eds., Springer: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, pp. 183-206, 2017. 

Selected Projects

Adaptive Guidance for Vehicle Configuration and Environmental Conditions, Boeing

First Person View and Augmented Reality for Airborne Embodied Intelligent Cognitive Assistants, with J. Gabbard, M. Hebdon, and P. Tokekar, National Science Foundation

Identification and validation of a Lagrangian nonlinear maneuvering and seakeeping model, with S. Brizzolara (PI), Office of Naval Research