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Associate Professor Peter Gibbens

Senior Lecturer

J11 - Aeronautical Engineering Building
The University of Sydney

Telephone +61 2 9351 7350
Fax +61 2 9351 4841

Teaching and supervision

AERO3560 - Flight Mechanics 1
AERO4560 - Flight Mechanics 2
AERO4591 - Advanced Flight Mechanics
AERO5500 - Flight Mechanics Test and Evaluation Adv
AERO5510 - Foundations of Flight Mechanics
AERO5520 - Aircraft Avionics and Systems

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Selected grants

2001

  • Robust Simultaneous Localisation and Map building for Mobile Robots in Indoor environments; Nebot E, Dissanayake G, Gibbens P; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Earlier schemes: Large Grants.
  • Key Centre for Field Robotics; Durrant-Whyte H, Dissanayake G, Gibbens P; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Key Centres of Teaching and Research.

2000

  • An autonomous tail-sitter unmanned vehicle technology demonstrator for remote sensing applications; Gibbens P, Wong K, Stone R; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Spirt Grants.

1999

  • Deed of Grant with Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB); Gibbens P; Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)/Project Support.
  • Decentralised navigation and control of an autonomous flight vehicle; Durrant-Whyte H, Nebot E, Gibbens P, Wong K; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Spirt Grants.
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Selected publications

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Book Chapters

  • Tsai, A., Gibbens, P., Stone, R. (2006). Terminal Phase Vision-Based Target Recognition and 3D Pose Estimation for a Tail-Sitter, Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle. In Long-Wen Chang and Wen-Nung Lie (Eds.), Advances in Image and Video Technology, (pp. 672-681). Germany: Springer.

Journals

  • Dumble, S., Gibbens, P. (2012). Horizon Profile Detection for Attitude Determination. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: theory and applications, 68(3-4), 339-357.
  • Gibbens, P., Medagoda, E. (2011). Efficient Model Predictive Control Algorithm for Aircraft. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics: devoted to the technology of dynamics and control, 34(6), 1909-1915.
  • Medagoda, E., Gibbens, P. (2010). Synthetic-Waypoint Guidance Algorithm for Following a Desired Flight Trajectory. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics: devoted to the technology of dynamics and control, 33(2), 601-606.
  • Stone, R., Anderson, P., Hutchison, C., Tsai, A., Gibbens, P., Wong, K. (2008). Flight Testing of the T-Wing Tail-Sitter Unmanned Air Vehicle. Journal of Aircraft: devoted to aeronautical science and technology, 45(2), 673-685.

Conferences

  • Verstraete, D., Gibbens, P., Wong, K. (2011). Is a small UAV with extended altitude capabilities feasible?. AIAC-14 Fourteenth Australian International Aerospace Congress APISAT 2011, Melbourne, Australia: WALDRONSMITHManagement.
  • Gibbens, P., Verstraete, D. (2011). Learning aircraft design and flight control system design using flight simulation as a CDIO conduit. 7th International CDIO Conference 2011, Denmark: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU).
  • Medagoda, E., Gibbens, P. (2010). Efficient Predictive Flight Control. International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems 2010 (ICCAS 2010), Gyeonggi-do, Korea: International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems.
  • Gibbens, P., Medagoda, E., Dumble, S. (2009). Enhancement of Learning in Aircraft Handling Qualities Through Variable Stability Flight Simulation. 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education AAEE 2009, Australia: School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide.
  • Tsai, A., Gibbens, P., Stone, R. (2007). Terminal Phase Visual Position Estimation for a Tail-Sitting Vertical Takeoff and Landing UAV via a Kalman Filter. Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXV: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, Bellingham, Washington: SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering.
  • Stone, R., Anderson, P., Hutchison, C., Tsai, A., Gibbens, P., Roberts, J., Wong, K. (2007). Vertical Flight Testing and Parameter Identification for the T-Wing UAV. Twelfth Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC-12), Melbourne, Australia: Bristol UAV Conferences.
  • Rickard, N., Gibbens, P. (2006). Variable Stability Simulator for the Experiential Education of Flight Dynamic Principles. SimTect 2006, Melbourne, Australia: Simulation Industry Association of Australia.
  • Tsai, A., Gibbens, P., Stone, R. (2006). Visual Position Estimation for Automatic Landing of a Tail-Sitter Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle. 13th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP 2006). DLSU-Manila.

2012

  • Dumble, S., Gibbens, P. (2012). Horizon Profile Detection for Attitude Determination. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: theory and applications, 68(3-4), 339-357.

2011

  • Gibbens, P., Medagoda, E. (2011). Efficient Model Predictive Control Algorithm for Aircraft. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics: devoted to the technology of dynamics and control, 34(6), 1909-1915.
  • Verstraete, D., Gibbens, P., Wong, K. (2011). Is a small UAV with extended altitude capabilities feasible?. AIAC-14 Fourteenth Australian International Aerospace Congress APISAT 2011, Melbourne, Australia: WALDRONSMITHManagement.
  • Gibbens, P., Verstraete, D. (2011). Learning aircraft design and flight control system design using flight simulation as a CDIO conduit. 7th International CDIO Conference 2011, Denmark: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU).

2010

  • Medagoda, E., Gibbens, P. (2010). Efficient Predictive Flight Control. International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems 2010 (ICCAS 2010), Gyeonggi-do, Korea: International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems.
  • Medagoda, E., Gibbens, P. (2010). Synthetic-Waypoint Guidance Algorithm for Following a Desired Flight Trajectory. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics: devoted to the technology of dynamics and control, 33(2), 601-606.

2009

  • Gibbens, P., Medagoda, E., Dumble, S. (2009). Enhancement of Learning in Aircraft Handling Qualities Through Variable Stability Flight Simulation. 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education AAEE 2009, Australia: School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide.

2008

  • Stone, R., Anderson, P., Hutchison, C., Tsai, A., Gibbens, P., Wong, K. (2008). Flight Testing of the T-Wing Tail-Sitter Unmanned Air Vehicle. Journal of Aircraft: devoted to aeronautical science and technology, 45(2), 673-685.

2007

  • Tsai, A., Gibbens, P., Stone, R. (2007). Terminal Phase Visual Position Estimation for a Tail-Sitting Vertical Takeoff and Landing UAV via a Kalman Filter. Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXV: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, Bellingham, Washington: SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering.
  • Stone, R., Anderson, P., Hutchison, C., Tsai, A., Gibbens, P., Roberts, J., Wong, K. (2007). Vertical Flight Testing and Parameter Identification for the T-Wing UAV. Twelfth Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC-12), Melbourne, Australia: Bristol UAV Conferences.

2006

  • Tsai, A., Gibbens, P., Stone, R. (2006). Terminal Phase Vision-Based Target Recognition and 3D Pose Estimation for a Tail-Sitter, Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle. In Long-Wen Chang and Wen-Nung Lie (Eds.), Advances in Image and Video Technology, (pp. 672-681). Germany: Springer.
  • Rickard, N., Gibbens, P. (2006). Variable Stability Simulator for the Experiential Education of Flight Dynamic Principles. SimTect 2006, Melbourne, Australia: Simulation Industry Association of Australia.
  • Tsai, A., Gibbens, P., Stone, R. (2006). Visual Position Estimation for Automatic Landing of a Tail-Sitter Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle. 13th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP 2006). DLSU-Manila.
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