Bibliography

T. McGeer.  Safety, economy, reliability, and regulatory policy for unmanned aircraft.  Aerovel Corporation, March 2007. (9 pp)

T. McGeer, C. Roeseler and A.H. von Flotow.  Methods and apparatuses for launching unmanned aircraft, including methods and apparatuses for releasably gripping aircraft during launch.  US patent 7,140,575 (2006)

T. McGeer.  Methods and apparatuses for launching, capturing, and storing unmanned aircraft, including a container having a guide structure for aircraft components.  US patent 7,104,495 (2006).

T. McGeer.  Aerosonde Pacific reconnaissance: ready when you are!  Pacific Northwest Weather Workshop, March 2005. (15 pp)

S.B. Heppe and K. Gauksheim.  Method and apparatus for satellite-based relative positioning of moving platforms.  US patent 6,961,018 (2005).

T. McGeer et al.  Method for retrieving a fixed-wing aircraft without a runway.  US patent 6,264,140 (2001).

T. McGeer.  Breaking the Sonde barrier.  Air & Space/Smithsonian 14(4): 64-69, November 1999.

T. McGeer and J. Vagners. Wide-scale use of long-range miniature aerosondes over the world’s oceans. 1999.

S. P. Hendrickson and T. McGeer.  A miniature powerplant for very small, very long range autonomous aircraft.  Final Report under US DoE contract FG03-96ER82187, September 1999.  (23 pp)

T. McGeer, L. Newcombe, and J. Vagners.  Quantitative risk management as a regulatory approach to civil UAVs.  International Workshop on UAV Certification, Paris, June 1999.

T. McGeer.  Regulatory issues involving long-range weather observation by aerosonde autonomous aircraft.  October 1998. (8 pp)

T. McGeer.  Laima: the first Atlantic crossing by unmanned aircraft.  1998. (25 pp)

T. McGeer.  Aerosonde hazard estimation.  1994. (6 pp)

G.J. Holland, T. McGeer and H.H. Youngren.  Autonomous aerosondes for economical atmospheric soundings anywhere on the globe.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 73(12):1987-1999, December 1992.

T. McGeer.  Dynamics and control of bipedal locomotion.   Journal of Theoretical Biology 163, 277-314, 1993.

T. McGeer.  Principles of walking and running. In Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology 11: Mechanics of Animal Locomotion.   R. McN. Alexander, ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1992.

T. McGeer.  Passive dynamic biped catalogue, 1991.  Proc. 2nd Int. Symp. Experimental Robotics. Toulouse, June 1991.

T. McGeer.  Passive walking with knees.  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics & Automation. Cincinnati, May 1990.

T. McGeer.  Passive bipedal running.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 240(1297) May 1990.

T. McGeer.  Passive dynamic walking.  International Journal of Robotics Research 9 (2) April 1990.

T McGeer.  Passive bipedal running.  Simon Fraser University CSS-ISS TR 89-02, 1989 (53 pp)

T. McGeer.  Stability and control of two-dimensional bipedal walking. Simon Fraser University CSS-ISS TR 88-01, 1988 (60 pp)

T McGeer.  Passive dynamic walking.  Simon Fraser University CSS-ISS TR 88-02, 1988. (51 pp)

T. McGeer, L. Palmer.  Wobbling, toppling, and forces of contact.  American Journal of Physics 57 (12) December 1989.

T. McGeer.  Wing design for minimum drag with practical constraints.  Journal of Aircraft 21 (11) November 1984.

T. McGeer, I. Kroo.  Fundamental comparison of canard and conventional configurations.  Journal of Aircraft 20 (11) November 1983.

E.J. Durbin and T. McGeer.  An airspeed vector sensor for V/STOL aircraft.  Journal of Aircraft 19 (6), June 1982.  (Also US patent 4,680,962 1987)

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