Rate My Professor Chris Damaren

Damaren's academic interests center on spacecraft dynamics and control, including nonlinear control design for spacecraft, magnetic attitude control, formation flying spacecraft control, robust control for flexible structures, and control systems for solar sails. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). His influential publications include "Hybrid Nonlinear Passivity-based Control Approach to Magnetic-Impulsive Spacecraft Attitude Regulation" with E. Sharifi (AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, accepted 2024), "Saturated Adaptive Pose Tracking Control of Spacecraft on SE(3) Under Attitude and Obstacle-Avoidance Constraints" with Z. Kang et al. (Automatica, 2024), "Equinoctial Lyapunov Control Law for Low-Thrust Rendezvous" with S. Narayanaswamy (AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2023), and "Passivity-based Control Design Frameworks for Hybrid Nonlinear Time-varying Dynamical Systems" with E. Sharifi (International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2023). Under his leadership, UTIAS continues to foster interdisciplinary research collaborations and industry partnerships.