Steven A. Rasmussen
Aerospace Valley, United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Papers
2
Total Citations
75
H-Index
2
About
Steven A. Rasmussen is a leading researcher in the field of autonomous systems, with a primary focus on the development of mission-level autonomy for teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). His work addresses the critical challenge of enabling UAVs to operate collaboratively with minimal human oversight, a key requirement for future military and civilian applications. Rasmussen’s major contributions include the introduction of the Unmanned Systems Autonomy Services (UxAS) framework, a foundational architecture for coordinating multi-UAV teams, which has garnered 45 citations. He has also pioneered the use of formal languages, specifically Process Algebra, to rigorously specify and plan UAV missions, ensuring that autonomous systems can provably achieve complex objectives and constraints—a paper that has been cited 30 times. By bridging the gap between theoretical formal methods and practical system design, Rasmussen has significantly advanced the reliability and capability of autonomous UAV operations. His work is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the intersection of formal verification, planning algorithms, and multi-agent robotics.
Research Focus
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Top Papers
- 1A Brief Introduction to Unmanned Systems Autonomy Services (UxAS)45 citations · 2018
- 2Specification and planning of UAV missions: a Process Algebra approach30 citations · 2009