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Publications

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Journal Articles

  1. J. Kulik, B. Hastings, and K.A. LeGrand, “Unscented and Higher-Order Linear Covariance Fidelity Checks and Measures of Non-Gaussianity,” https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23152 
  2. G.A. Siciliano, K.A. LeGrand, and J. Kulik, “Higher-Order Tensor-Based Deferral of Gaussian Splitting for Orbit Uncertainty Propagation,” https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01771
  3. J. Kulik and K.A. LeGrand, “Nonlinearity and Uncertainty Informed Moment-Matching Gaussian Mixture Splitting, “ IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2025, doi:10.1109/TAES.2025.3632242
  4. J.L. Iannamorelli and K.A. LeGrand, “Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Filtering for Multi-Sensor Maneuvering Cislunar Space Object Tracking,” Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol 72, No. 2, 2025, doi:10.1007/s40295-024-00478-z
  5. K.A. LeGrand and S. Ferrari, “Split Happens! Imprecise and Negative Information in Gaussian Mixture Random Finite Set Filtering,” Journal of Advances in Information Fusion,  Vol 17, No. 2, December, 2022, download
  6. K.A. LeGrand, P. Zhu, and S. Ferrari, “Cell Multi-Bernoulli (Cell-MB) Sensor Control for Multi-object Search-While-Tracking (SWT),” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3223856, 2022
  7. H. Wei, K.A. LeGrand, A.A. Paradise, and S. Ferrari, “Real-time Communication Control in Decentralized Autonomous Sensor Networks,” Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 2022, link
  8. S. Ferrari, T. A. Wettergren, R. Linares and K.A. LeGrand, “Guest Editorial Special Issue on Control of Very-Large-Scale Robotic (VLSR) Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 527-529, June 2021, doi: 10.1109/TCNS.2021.3097667. link
  9. K.A. LeGrand, K.J. DeMars, H.J. and Pernicka, “Bearings-Only Initial Relative Orbit Determination,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (Special Issue in Honor of Richard Battin), 38(9):1833–1842, 2015, DOI:[10.2514/1.G001003]

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

  1. G.A. Siciliano, K.A. LeGrand, and J. Kulik, “Deferred Higher-Order Splitting for Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Orbit uncertainty Propagation,” Proceedings of the 2025 28th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025, download
  2. S. Semeraro and K.A. LeGrand, “Gaussian Mixture Based Progressive Chernoff Fusion,” Proceedings of the 2024 27th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Venice, Italy, 2024, download
  3. L. Wang, K.A. LeGrand, and S. Sundaram, “Distributed Information Bayesian Recursive Update Filter,” Proceedings of the 2024 27th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Venice, Italy, 2024, download
  4. L. Wang, S. Sundaram, and K.A. LeGrand, “Distributed Optimization-Based State Estimation of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems,” (to appear) Proceedings of the 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), 2024
  5. K.A. LeGrand, P. Zhu, and S. Ferrari, “A Random Finite Set Sensor Control Approach for Vision-based Multi-object Search-While-Tracking,” Proceedings of the 2021 24th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Sun City, South Africa, 2021, link
  6. K.A. LeGrand and S. Ferrari, “The Role of Bounded Fields-of-View and Negative Information in Finite Set Statistics (FISST),” Proceedings of the 2020 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2020. link
  7. O. Reynen, S. Vadrevu, R. Nagi and K.A. LeGrand, “Large-scale Multi-dimensional Assignment: Problem Formulations and GPU Accelerated Solutions,” 2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2019, pp. 1-8. link
  8. A. Buonviri, M. York, K.A. LeGrand and J. Meub, “Survey of Challenges in Labeled Random Finite Set Distributed Multi-Sensor Multi-Object Tracking,” 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2019, pp. 1-12, doi: 10.1109/AERO.2019.8742216. link
  9. A. Finelli et al., “Performance of an emerging MB filter,” 2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2018, pp. 1-9, doi: 10.1109/AERO.2018.8396659. link
  10. K.A. LeGrand, and K.J. DeMars, “Relative Multiple Space Object Tracking Using Intensity Filters,” Proceedings of the 2015 18th International Conference on Information Fusion, 1253-1261, 2015
  11. K.A. LeGrand, “Initial Relative Orbit Determination Using Stereoscopic Imaging and Gaussian Mixture Models,” Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Small Satellites, No. SSC13-VIII-6, 2013
  12. P. McCall, G. Torres, K.A. LeGrand, M. Adjouadi,  C. Liu, J. Darling, and H.J. Pernicka, “Many-Core Computing for Space-based Stereoscopic Imaging,” Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2013

Conference Proceedings

  1. J. Kulik and K.A. LeGrand, “Quantifying Volume Changes from Covariance Propagation,” 2025 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Boston, MA, 2025
  2. S. Semeraro, K.A. LeGrand, and J. Kulik, “Partial State Gaussian Mixture Fusion for Distributed Navigation and Tracking,” 2025 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Boston, MA, 2025, preprint
  3. D. Chaturvedi, G.A. Siciliano and K.A. LeGrand, “Information Driven Cislunar Space Object Reacquisition,” 2025 AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting, Kaua’i, Hawaii, 2025, preprint
  4. T. Goulet, K.A. LeGrand, Kari C. Ward, and Kyle W. Smith, “Robocentric Visual SLAM for Precise Lunar Landing Without Prior Generated Terrain Maps,”2025 AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting, Kaua’i, Hawaii, 2025, preprint
  5.  J. Kulik, B. Hasting, and K.A. LeGrand, “Linear Covariance Fidelity Checks and Measures of Non-Gaussianity,” 2025 AAS/AIAASpaceflight Mechanics Meeting, Kaua’i, Hawaii, 2025, preprint
  6. J.L. Iannamorelli, S. Semeraro, K. A. LeGrand, and C. Frueh, “Adaptive Filtering for Multi-Satellite Relative Navigation with Quantized Measurements,”  AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, Jan. 2024. doi: 10.2514/6.2024-0433
  7. J.L. Iannamorelli and K.A. LeGrand, “Adaptive Filtering for Multi-Sensor Maneuvering Cislunar Space Object Tracking,” Proceedings of the 2023 Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, 2023 (2023 AMOS Conference Best Paper Award Winner), link
  8. K.A. LeGrand, A.V. Khilnani, and J.L. Iannamorelli, “Bayesian Angles-Only Cislunar Space Object Tracking,” Proceedings of the 33rd AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2023, download
  9. K.A. LeGrand and K.J. DeMars, “The Data-Driven delta-Generalized Labeled Multi-Bernoulli Filter for Automatic Birth Initialization,” SPIE Conference on Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition, 2018. link, download
  10. K.A. LeGrand and K.J. DeMars, “Space-based Relative Multitarget Tracking,” Proceedings of the 25th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2015
  11. K.A. LeGrand, K.J. DeMars, “Analysis of a Second-order Relative Lambert Solver,” Proceedings of the 2014 AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialists Conference, 2014
  12. K.A. LeGrand, K.J. DeMars, and H.J. Pernicka, “Probabilistic Initial Relative Orbit Determination,” Proceedings of the 2014 Small Satellites Systems and Services Symposium, 2014
  13. K.A. LeGrand and K.J. DeMars, “Solution of Lambert’s Problem for Higher-Order Satellite Relative Motion,” Proceedings of the 24th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2014
  14. K.A. LeGrand, K.J. DeMars, and J.E. Darling,  “Solutions of Multivariate Polynomial Systems Using Macaulay Resultant Expressions,” Proceedings of the 24th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2014
  15. K.A. LeGrand, K.J. DeMars, and H.J. Pernicka, “Initial Relative Orbit Determination Using Multiple LOS Measurements and Gaussian Mixture Models,” Proceedings of the 24th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2014
  16. J. Darling, K.A. LeGrand, H.J. Pernicka, T.A. Lovell, and B. Mahajan, “Close Proximity Spacecraft Operations Using Stereoscopic Imaging,” Proceedings of the 23rd AIAA/AAS Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2013.