Dr James  Biggs

BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD.

Lecturer

Current Funded Projects
CI – Contract No. TBD - Stardust – Marie Curie ITN FP7: Stardust – Euros 4.1 million – Jan 2013- Jan 2018 ________________________________________________ PI - Contract PITN-GA-2011-289240 - Astrodynamics II – Marie Curie ITN FP7: ASTRONET Astrodynamics Network £3 million – May 2012-May 2015 ________________________________________________ PI - Contract 4000104571/11/NL/KML - European Space agency Ariadna study Contract 4000104571/11/NL/KML; Analytical perturbative theories of motion in highly inhomogeneous gravitational fields - £26.6K September 2011-January 2012. ________________________________________________ CI - Contract 4000104571/11/NL/KML- ESA Ariadna Study - Study on gravity gradient compensation using low thrust high Isp motor, 2009 - 2010 - £100K. ________________________________________________ PI - Ref: 130781 Technology Strategy Board: Space For Growth - Fast Track - Feasibility of Novel Optimal Attitude Planning and Control algorithms for low cost spacecraft July 2012- March 2013 - £42.3K

Research Interests

For a list of publications from 2001, please follow this link. Select 'Browse', 'Author or Creator', Biggs, James D. http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/view/depts/11048.html

Ceccaroni, M., Biggs, J. D.,, Biscani, F., ‘Analytical perturbative theories of motion in highly inhomogeneous gravitational fields’. ESA Ariadna Technical Report , 4000104571/11/NL/KML , June 2012. ________________________________________________ Linton, C., Holderbaum, W, Biggs, J. D.,, ‘Rigid body trajectories in different 6D spaces’ ISRN Mathematical Physics, June 2012 . ________________________________________________ Heiligers, J., Ceriotti, M, Biggs, J. D., McInnes, C., ‘Design of optimal Earth pole-sitter transfers using low-thrust propulsion’. Acta Astronautica, volume 79, Pages 253-268, October 2012 ________________________________________________ Ceccaroni, M., Biggs, J. D.,, Biasco, L., ‘Analytic estimates and topological properties of the weak stability boundary’. Celestial mechanics and dynamical astronomy, May 2012. ________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D., Horri, N., ‘Optimal geometric motion planning for spin-stabilised spacecraft’, Systems and Control letters, vol. 61, issue 4, pp. 609-616, 61, 2012 ________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D.,, Bennet, D., Dadzie, K,. ‘Time-delayed auto-synchronous swarm control’. Physical Review E, vol. 85, 016105, 2012. ________________________________________________ Heiligers, J., Ceriotti, M, Biggs, J. D., McInnes, C., ‘Displaced Geostationary Orbits Using Hybrid Low-Thrust Propulsion’. Acta Astronautica, volume 71, Pages 51-67, 2012 ________________________________________________ Ceccaroni, M., Biggs, J. D., ‘A coplanar circular restricted four body problem’. Celestial mechanics and dynamical astronomy, vol 112, issue 2, pp. 191-219, 2012. _________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D.,, ‘Optimal path planning for nonholonomic robotic systems via parametric optimisation’ Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, vol. 6856, Springer, 2011. ________________________________________________ Heiligers, J., Ceriotti, M, Biggs, J. D., McInnes, C., ‘Displaced Geostationary Orbit Design Using Hybrid Sail Propulsion.’Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 234, issue 6, pp. 1852-1866, 2011. _________________________________________________ Macdonald, M., McKay, R., Vasile, M., Bosquillon de Frescheville, F., Biggs, J. D.,, McInnes. C., ‘Low-thrust enabled highly non-keplerian orbits in support of future Mars exploration’. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol 34, No. 5, 2011. ________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D., Waters, T., McInnes, C. R., ‘New Periodic Orbits in the Solar Sail three-body problem’, invited book contribution, Vol. 2, Nonlinear Science and Complexity, Springer 2011. _________________________________________________ McKay, R., Macdonald,M., Biggs, J. D., McInnes, C., ‘Survey of Highly Non-Keplerian Orbits With Low-Thrust Propulsion’. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Volume 34, No 3, 2011. _________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D., Holderbaum, W., ‘Integrable quadratic Hamiltonians on the Euclidean group of motions’. Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2010. _________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D., McInnes, C., ‘Passive Orbit Control for Space-based Geo-engineering’. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics Volume 33, No. 3, 2010. __________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D., McInnes, C., ‘Time-delayed feedback control in astrodynamics’. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 32, No. 6, 2009. _________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D., Holderbaum, W. ’Optimal kinematic control of an autonomous underwater vehicle’. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 54, (7), pp. 1623-1626, July 2009. _________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D., McInnes, C., ‘Solar sail formation flying for deep space remote sensing’. Journal of Spacecrafts and Rockets, Volume 46, Number 3, May-June, 2009. _________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D., McInnes, C. R., Waters, T., ‘Control of Solar Sail Periodic orbits in the Elliptic three-body problem’, Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 32, No.1, pp. 318-320, January 2009. _________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D., Holderbaum, W., ‘Planning rigid body motions using Elastic Curves’. Mathematics of Control, Systems and Signals, vol. 20. No. 4,pp. 351-367 Dec 2008. _________________________________________________ Biggs, J. D., Holderbaum, W., Jurdjevic, V., ‘Singularities of Optimal Control Problems on some 6-D Lie Groups’, IEEE Transactions on Automatic control, vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 1027-1038, June 2007.