Academic Appointments


  • Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Aeronautics and Astronautics

All Publications


  • Probability of midair collision during ultra closely spaced parallel approaches JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS Houck, S. W., Powell, J. D. 2003; 26 (5): 702-710
  • Observer-based air-fuel ratio control IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE Powell, J. D., Fekete, N. P., Chang, C. F. 1998; 18 (5): 72-83
  • On-line adaptive optimal combustor control IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY PADMANABHAN, K. T., Bowman, C. T., Powell, J. D. 1996; 4 (3): 217-229
  • Integration of wide area DGPS with local area kinematic DGPS LAWRENCE, D., Evans, J., Chao, Y. C., Tsai, Y. J., Cohen, C., Walter, T., Enge, P., Powell, J. D., Parkinson, B. I E E E. 1996: 523-529
  • Use of passive damping for a tethered artificial gravity spacecraft ASTRODYNAMICS 1995 Saeed, S. I., Powell, J. D. 1996; 90: 887-903
  • The effect of GPS-based surveillance on aircraft separation standards IEEE 1996 POSITION LOCATION AND NAVIGATION SYMPOSIUM Gazit, R. Y., Powell, J. D. 1996: 360-367
  • Continuity improvements via inertial augmentation of GPS-based landing system Ko, P. Y., Enge, P., Powell, J. D. I E E E. 1996: 153-160
  • AIR-FUEL RATIO CONTROL IN SPARK-IGNITION ENGINES USING ESTIMATION THEORY IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY Chang, C. F., Fekete, N. P., Amstutz, A., Powell, J. D. 1995; 3 (1): 22-31
  • IDENTIFICATION AND AIR-FUEL RATIO CONTROL OF A SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY Jones, V. K., AULT, B. A., Franklin, G. F., Powell, J. D. 1995; 3 (1): 14-21
  • Flight tests of a 3-D perspective-view glass-cockpit display for general aviation using GPS Barrows, A., Enge, P., Parkinson, B., Powell, J. D. INST NAVIGATION. 1995: 1615-1622
  • A bit of information on identification with a zirconia sensor PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1995 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-6 Jones, V. K., Franklin, G. F., Powell, J. D. 1995: 1657-1661
  • Observed GPS signal continuity interruptions COBB, H. S., LAWRENCE, D., Christie, J., Walter, T., Chao, Y. C., Powell, J. D., Parkinson, B. INST NAVIGATION. 1995: 793-795
  • Maintaining GPS positioning in steep turns using two antennas LAWRENCE, D., COBB, H. S., Cohen, C., Christie, J., Powell, J. D., Parkinson, B. INST NAVIGATION. 1995: 1451-1459
  • Autolanding a 737 using GPS and integrity beacons Cohen, C. E., COBB, H. S., Lawrence, D. G., Pervan, B. S., Powell, J. D., Parkinson, B. W., Aubrey, G. J., Loewe, W., Ormiston, D., MCNALLY, B. D., Kaufmann, D. N., Wullschleger, V., Swider, R. I E E E. 1995: 474-482
  • Precision landing tests with improved integrity beacon pseudolites COBB, H. S., LAWRENCE, D., Pervan, B., Cohen, C., Powell, J. D., Parkinson, B. INST NAVIGATION. 1995: 827-833
  • FLIGHT TRIALS OF THE WIDE AREA AUGMENTATION SYSTEM (WAAS) Walter, T., Kee, C., Chao, Y. C., Tsai, Y. J., PELED, U., Ceva, J., Barrows, A., Abbot, E., Powell, J. D., Enge, P., Parkinson, B. INST NAVIGATION. 1994: 1537-1546
  • TETHERED ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY SPACECRAFT DESIGN ASTRODYNAMICS 1993, PTS 1-3 KOWALSKY, C., Powell, J. D. 1994; 85: 645-664
  • THRUSTERLESS VIBRATION CONTROL FOR TETHERED ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY SPACECRAFT ASTRODYNAMICS 1993, PTS 1-3 THORNBURG, S. L., Powell, J. D. 1994; 85: 839-857
  • COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS FOR GPS-BASED SURVEILLANCE AND TCAS PROCEEDINGS OF ION GPS-94: 7TH INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL MEETING OF THE SATELLITE DIVISION OF THE INSTITUTE OF NAVIGATION, PTS 1 AND 2 Gazit, R., Powell, J. D. 1994: 923-932
  • FLIGHT TEST RESULTS OF AUTOCOUPLED APPROACHES USING GPS AND INTEGRITY BEACONS Cohen, C., LAWRENCE, D., Pervan, B., COBB, H. S., Barrows, A., Powell, J. D., Parkinson, B., Wullschleger, V., Kalinowski, S. INST NAVIGATION. 1994: 1145-1153
  • AUTONOMOUS INTEGRITY MONITORING FOR GPS-BASED PRECISION LANDING USING GROUND-BASED INTEGRITY BEACON PSEUDOLITES Pervan, B., Cohen, C., LAWRENCE, D., COBB, H. S., Powell, J. D., Parkinson, B. INST NAVIGATION. 1994: 609-618
  • ENGINE CONTROL USING CYLINDER PRESSURE - PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE JOURNAL OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME Powell, J. D. 1993; 115 (2B): 343-350
  • TETHER DAMPING IN SPACE JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS He, X. H., Powell, J. D. 1990; 13 (1): 104-112
  • MULTIRATE DIGITAL-CONTROL SYSTEM-DESIGN IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL Berg, M. C., Amit, N., Powell, J. D. 1988; 33 (12): 1139-1150
  • FUEL-AIR RATIO DETERMINATION FROM CYLINDER PRESSURE TIME HISTORIES JOURNAL OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME Gilkey, J. C., Powell, J. D. 1985; 107 (4): 252-257
  • COMPUTER-AIDED PROCEDURES FOR OPTIMIZATION OF ENGINE CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF VEHICLE DESIGN TENNANT, J. A., Cohen, A. I., Rao, H. S., Powell, J. D. 1983; 4 (3): 258-269
  • IMAGE MOTION COMPENSATION SYSTEM FOR THE SHUTTLE INFRARED TELESCOPE FACILITY AUTOMATICA LORELL, K. R., PARSONS, E. K., Powell, J. D. 1981; 17 (4): 555-562
  • SAMPLE RATE SELECTION FOR AIRCRAFT DIGITAL CONTROL AIAA JOURNAL Powell, J. D., Katz, P. 1975; 13 (8): 975-979
  • DESIGN METHOD FOR MINIMIZING SENSITIVITY TO PLANT PARAMETER VARIATIONS AIAA JOURNAL HADASS, Z., Powell, J. D. 1975; 13 (10): 1295-1303