Matthew Rhudy

Matthew B. Rhudy received a Bachelor's of Science in mechanical engineering in 2008 from The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, and a Master's of Science in mechanical engineering in 2009 from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. In 2010, he began working towards a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering as a Graduate Research Assistant at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. Mr. Rhudy received his Ph.D in 2013 and he is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lafayette College.

Research Interests

• Aircraft Attitude Estimation
  
• Artificial Neural Networks
  
• Dynamic Systems and Controls
  
• Information/Sensor Fusion
  
• Nonlinear Systems
  
• Stability Analysis
  
• State and Parameter Estimation
  
• Unmanned Systems
  

Publications

1. Rhudy, M., Gross, J., Gu, Y., and Napolitano, M. R., “Fusion of GPS and Redundant IMU Data for Attitude Estimation,” AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, AIAA-2012-5030, Minneapolis, MN, August, 2012.
   
2. Rhudy, M., Gu, Y., and Napolitano, M. R., “Relaxation of Initial Error and Noise Bounds for Stability of GPS/INS Attitude Estimation,” AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, AIAA-2012-5031, Minneapolis, MN, August, 2012.
   
3. Guerra, M., Rhudy, M., Gu, Y., Seanor, B., and Napolitano, M. R., “Mobile Ground Control Station Development for Fault Tolerant UAV Research,” AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, AIAA-2012-4544, Minneapolis, MN, August, 2012.
   
4. Gross, J. N., Gu, Y., Rhudy, M. B., Gururajan, S., and Napolitano, M., “Flight Test Evaluation of Sensor Fusion Algorithms for Attitude Estimation,”  IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 48, No. 3, July 2012, pp. 2128-2139.
   
5. Rhudy, M., Gu, Y., Gross, J., and Napolitano, M. R., “Evaluation of Matrix Square Root Operations for UKF within a UAV GPS/INS Sensor Fusion Application,” International Journal of Navigation and Observation, Vol. 2011, Article ID 416828, 11 pages, Dec. 2011. doi:10.1155/2011/416828
   
6. Rhudy, M., Gu, Y., Gross, J., and Napolitano, M. R., “Sensitivity Analysis of EKF and UKF in GPS/INS Sensor Fusion,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA-2011-6491, Portland, 2011.
   
7. Gross, J. N., Gu, Y., Rhudy, M., Barchesky, F. J., and Napolitano, M. R., “On-line Modeling and Calibration of Low-Cost Navigation Sensors,” AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, AIAA-2011-6332, Portland, 2011.
   
8. Barchesky, F. J., Gross, J. N., Gu, Y., Rhudy, M., and Napolitano, M. R., “Development of GPS/INS Sensor Fusion Simulation Environment Using Flight Data,” AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, AIAA-2011-6333, Portland, 2011.
   
9. Vipperman, J. S., Rhudy, M. B., Bucci, B. A., “Development and Implementation of Metrics for Identifying Military Impulse Noise,” SERDP Project WP-1585 Final Report, September, 2010.
   
10. Allanach, J., Borodinsky, J., Vipperman, J., and Rhudy, M., “Improved system for detection, localization, and classification of military impulse noise,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 127, Issue 3, pp. 1878, March 2010.
    
11. Rhudy, M. B., “Real Time Implementation of a Military Impulse Noise Classifier.” University of Pittsburgh, Master’s Thesis, 2009.
    
12. Rhudy, M., Bucci, B., Vipperman, J., Allanach, J., and Abraham, B., “Microphone Array Analysis Methods Using Cross-Correlations.” IMECE2009-10798, Proceedings of IMECE 09: 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, November 13-19, 2009, Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
    
13. Rhudy, M. B., and Bucci, B. A., “Microphone array techniques using cross-correlations,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126(4): 2197, October, 2009.