Publications

Papers in Refereed Journals**

1. Ferris, J.B., Stein, J. L., and Bernitsas, M. M., 1998, "Development of Proper Models of Hybrid Systems," Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 120, No. 3, pp. 328-333. DOI: 10.1115/1.2805405. 

2. Ferris, J.B., Bernitsas, M. M., and Stein, J. L., 2000, "Redesigning the Dynamics of Complex Structural Systems," AIAA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 147-154. DOI: 10.2514/2.935. 

3. Ferris, J.B., and Larsen, J. L., 2002, "Establishing Chassis Reliability Testing Targets Based on Road Roughness," International Journal of Materials & Product Technology, Vol. 17, No. 5/6, pp. 453-461. DOI: 10.1504/IJMPT.2002.005470.

4. Ferris, J.B., and Estes, H. A., 2002, "Automotive Seat Suspension Model for Ride Quality Studies," SAE 2002 Transactions – Journal of Passenger Cars: Mechanical Systems, paper 2002-01-0778, SAE, Detroit, MI, pp. 1130-1135. 

5. Saeger*, K. M., and Ferris, J.B., 2003, "Plausibility Checking of Road Profile Measurements," SAE 2003 Transactions – Journal of Passenger Cars: Electronic and Electrical Systems, paper 2003-01-0669, SAE, Detroit, MI.  

6. Ferris, J.B., 2004, "Characterizing Road Profiles as Markov Chains," International Journal of Vehicle Design, Special Edition on Road Profiles: Measurement, Analysis, and Applications, Vol. 36, No. 2/3, pp. 103-115. DOI: 10.1504/IJVD.2004.005351.

7. Wagner*, S. M. and Ferris, J.B., 2009, “Developing Stable Autoregressive Models of Terrain Topology,” International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 306-317. 

8. Detweiler*, Z. R., and Ferris, J.B., 2010, “Characterizing Road Profiles as Markov Chains,” Journal of Terramechanics, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 209-217.  DOI: 10.1016/j.jterra.2010.01.002.

9. Smith*, H., Ferris, J.B., 2010, “Techniques for Averting and Correcting Inertial Errors in High-Fidelity Terrain Topology Measurements.”  Journal of Terramechanics, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 219-225. DOI: 10.1016/j.jterra.2010.04.002. 

10. Smith*, H. and Ferris, J.B., 2010, “Calibration Surface Design and Validation for Terrain Measurement Systems,” Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 431-438.

11. Chemistruck*, H. M., Binns*, R., Ferris, J.B., 2010, “Correcting INS Drift in Terrain Surface Measurements” Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control. Vol. 133, No. 2, Article Number: 021009 (DOI:10.1115/1.4003098).

12. Wagner*, S. M. and Ferris, J.B., 2011, “Stability and Interpretation of Autoregressive Models of Terrain Topology,” Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control. Vol. 133, No. 2, Article 021003 (2011); doi: 10.1115/1.4003092.

13. Chemistruck*, H. M., Ferris, J.B., Gorsich, D., 2012. “Using a Galerkin Approach to Define Terrain Surfaces.”  Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, Volume 134, Issue 2, 021017 (12 pages) doi: 10.1115/1.4005271.

14. Wagner*, S. M. and Ferris, J.B., 2012, “Developing compact autoregressive characterisations of terrain topology profiles”, Int. J. Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.12–25. (DOI: 10.1504/IJVSMT.2012.045312) 

15. Wagner*, S. M. and Ferris, J. B., 2012, “Residual Analysis of Autoregressive Models of Terrain Topology,” Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, Volume 134, Issue 3, 031003 (6 pages) doi: 10.1115/1.4005502. 

16. Ma*, R., Chemistruck*, H. M., Ferris, J.B., 2013. “State-of-the-art of Terrain Characterization Models.”   International Journal of Vehicle Design, Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation of Ground Vehicle Systems, Guest Editors Zoran Filipi and David Gorsich, pp 285-304, Vol. 61, No. 1/2/3/4, doi:10.1504/IJVD.2013.050850.

17. Chemistruck*, H. M., Ferris, J.B., 2013. “Developing Compact Models of Terrain Surfaces.”  Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, Vol. 135, No. 6, 061008 (Aug 23, 2013)9 pages. doi:10.1115/1.4025016.

18. Chung*, H., North, C., Ferris, J.B., 2013. "Developing Large High-Resolution Display Visualizations of High-Fidelity Terrain Data." J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng. 13(3) :034502-034502-7, ASME, 7 pages. doi:10.1115/1.4024656. 

19. Fietzek, R., Chin, P.A., Cheng*, C.; LaBrie*, R., Rinderknecht, S., Ferris, J.B., 2013, “Control Strategy for the Excitation of a Complete Vehicle Test Rig with Terrain Constraints”, SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars – Mech. Syst., May 2013 6 (1): 121-127. (Paper Number 2013-01-0671, SAE, doi:10.4271/2013-01-067). 

20. Matthews*, C. M., Cho, S.*, Ferris, J.B., Schlinkheider, J., Montgomery, M., 2013.  “Using Performance Margin and Dynamic Simulation for Location Aware Adaptation of Vehicle Dynamics”, SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars – Mech. Syst., Vol. 6, No. 1, May 2013 6:225-230. (Paper Number 2013-01-0703, SAE, doi: 10.4271/2013-01-0703). 

21. Cho*, S., Bandy, R., Ferris, J.B., Schlinkheider, J. Wimmershoff, M., 2014, "Location-Aware Adaptive Vehicle Dynamics System: Brake Modulation," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst., Vol. 7, No. 2, April 2014, (doi:10.4271/2014-01-0079).

22. Cho*, S., Bandy, R., Ferris, J.B., Schlinkheider, J. Wimmershoff, M., "Location-Aware Adaptive Vehicle Dynamics System: Throttle Modulation," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst., Vol. 7, No. 1, April 2014, (doi:10.4271/2014-01-0105).

23. Bandy*, R., Cho, S., Matthews, C., Celli*, J., Binns*, R., Ferris, J.B., Schlinkheider, J., Wimmershoff, M., 2014. "Location-Aware Adaptive Vehicle Dynamics System: Concept Development," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst., Vol. 7, No. 1, April 2014, (doi:10.4271/2014-01-0121).

24. Taheri, S., Sandu, C., Ahmadian, M., Furukawa, T., Ferris, J.B., Batur, C., 2014, “Technical note: NSF I/UCRC Centre for Tire Research (CenTiRe): an overview,” Int. J. Vehicle Design, Vol. 65, Nos. 2/3, 2014

25. Ma*, R., Chin*, P., Ferris, J.B., Cheng*, C. Neisen*, E., Reid, A., 2015. "The Development of Terrain Pre-filtering Technique based on Constraint Mode Tire Model," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst. 8(3):1151-1159, 2015, doi:10.4271/2015-01-9113.

26. Ma*, R., Ferris, J.B., Reid, A., Gorsich, D., 2015, “A planar quasi-static constraint mode tire model”, Vehicle System Dynamics, Vol. 53, No. 12, pp. 1759-1771, DOI:  10.1080/00423114.2015.1088161

27. Zamora Alvarez*, E. J., Ferris, J. B., Scott, D., Horn, E., 2016, “Development of a Discrete Roughness Index for Longitudinal Road Profiles”, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, p. 1 – 10, DOI: 10.1080/10298436.2016.1237180 

28. Ma*, R., Ferris, J., Reid, A., and Gorsich, D., 2017, "Admissible Shape Parameters for a Planar Quasi-Static Constraint Mode Tire Model," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst. 10(3). doi:10.4271/2017-01-9683

29. Kang*, Y., and Ferris, J. B., 2018, "Performance Margin for Geometric Road Design,” SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst., vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 263-272, doi:10.4271/06-11-04-0022

30. Bobade, P., Majumdar, S., Pereira*, S., Kurdila, A.J., and Ferris, J.B., 2018, “Adaptive estimation for nonlinear systems using reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces,” Advances in Computational Mathematics, https://doi.org/1 0.1007 /s1 0444-018-9639-z 

31. Kang*, Y., Nazari, A., Chen, L., Ferris, J. B., Taheri, S., Battaglia, F., and Flintsch, G., 2018, "A Probabilistic Approach to Hydroplaning Potential and Risk,” SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst., vol. 12, no. 1, doi:10.4271/06-12-01-0005 

32. Pereira* S., and Ferris, J.B., 2020, “Random Sampling and Probabilistic Consensus (RSPC) for Identifying Outliers in Road Surface Datasets”, Int. J. Vehicle Systems Modeling and Testing, Submission code: IJVSMT-267607. (in press)

33. Altmann* C.T., and Ferris, J.B., 2020, “Theoretical Development of Localized Pseudo Damage”, SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars – Mechanical Systems, Vol. 13, No. 1, doi:10.4271/06-13-01-0003.

34. A. Nazari, L. Chen, F. Battaglia, J. B. Ferris, and F. Flintsch, S. Taheri, 2020, “Prediction of Hydroplaning Potential Using Fully Coupled FE-CFD Tire Models”, Journal of Fluid Engineering, FE-19-1721.

35. Altmann* C.T., and Ferris, J.B., 2020, “Identification of Damaging Road Events Using Pseudo Damage Density," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst., Vol. 13, No. 2, pg:125-134, doi:10.4271/06-13-02-0010.

36. Pereira* S., and Ferris, J.B., 2020, “Random Sampling and Probabilistic Consensus (RSPC) for Identifying Outliers in Road Surface Datasets”, Int. J. Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing, Vol.14 No.2/3, pp.133 - 148, doi: 10.1504/IJVSMT.2020.111679

37. Altmann* C.T., and Ferris, J.B.,  2020, "Similarity Between Damaging Events Using Pseudo Damage Density" SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst., Vol 13, No. 3, pp. 207-224, doi:10.4271/06-13-03-0016.

38. Y. Kang*, T. J. Kim*, and J. B. Ferris, 2020,"Development of a Predictive Vehicle Controller with Optimized Speed Profile and Terrain Characteristics for Road Departure Prevention," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, September 2020, Vol. 1, No. 1, doi: 10.1109/TIV.2020.3022974

39. T. J. Kim*, and J.B. Ferris, 2024, "Adopting the Performance Margin in Horizontal Curve Design", Transportation Research Record, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981241229090

Papers in refereed conference proceeding (review based on full paper)**

1. Ferris, J. B., and Stein, J. L., 1994, "Development of Proper System Models for Hybrid Systems: A Bond Graph Approach," Proceedings of the 14th IMACS World Congress, IMACS, Atlanta, GA.

2. Ferris, J. B., Stein, J. L., and Bernitsas, M. M., 1994, "Development of Proper Models of Hybrid Systems," Proceedings of the Symposium on Automated Modeling for Design, 1994 ASME Winter Annual Meeting, ASME, Chicago, IL, pp. 629-636.

3. Ferris, J. B., and Stein, J. L., 1995, "Development of Proper Models of Hybrid Systems: A Bond Graph Formulation, " Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Bond Graph Modeling, SCS, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 43-48.

4. Ferris, J. B., 1999, "Factors Affecting Ride Quality in Automobiles," Proceedings of the ASME International Congress and Exposition, ASME, Nashville, TN, pp. 649-654.

5. Christensen, B. G., Ferris, J. B., and Stein, J. L., 2000, "An Energy Enhanced Design of Experiments Method Applied to Multibody Models," Proceedings of the ASME International Congress and Exposition, ASME, Orlando, FL, pp. 527-534.

6. Christensen, B. G., Ferris, J. B., and Stein, J. L., 2000, "An Energy Enhanced Design of Experiments Method," Proceedings of the ASME International Congress and Exposition, ASME, Orlando, FL, pp. 795-800.

7. Ferris, J. B., and Larsen, J. L., 2001, "Establishing Chassis Reliability Testing Targets Based on Road Roughness," Proceedings of the Seventh ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, ISSAT, Washington, D.C., pp. 75-79.

8. Rideout, D. G., Stein, J. L., and Ferris, J. B., 2001, "Target Cascading: A Design Process for Achieving Vehicle Ride and Handling Targets," ASME DSC-9-4, Proc. IMECE 2001 Symposium on Advanced Automotive Technologies, New York.

9. Ferris, J. B., 2001, "Singular Value Decomposition of Road Events into Characteristic Shapes," Proceedings of the ASME International Congress and Exposition, ASME, New York, NY. 

10. Ferris, J. B., and Estes, H. A., 2002, "Automotive Seat Suspension Model for Ride Quality Studies," Proceedings of the SAE World Congress, paper 2002-01-0778, SAE, Detroit, MI.

11. Saeger*, K. M., and Ferris, J. B., 2003, "Plausibility Checking of Road Profile Measurements," Proceedings of the SAE World Congress, paper 2003-01-0669, SAE, Detroit, MI. 

12. Gorsich, D. J., Chaika, M., Gunter, D., Karlsen, R., Haueisen, B., Sun, T., Ferris, J. B., 2003, "Terrain Roughness Standards for Mobility and Ultra-Reliability Prediction," Proceedings of the SAE World Congress, SAE, Detroit, MI. 

13. Frinkle, M., Weir, R., and Ferris, J. B., 2004, "A Graphical Representation of Road Profile Characteristics," Proceedings of the SAE World Congress, paper number 2004-01-0769, SAE, Detroit, MI. 

14. Sun, T. C., Alyass, K, Wei, J., Gorsich, D. J., Chaika, M., Ferris, J. B., 2005, "Time Series Modeling of Terrain Profiles," Proceedings of the SAE World Congress, paper number 2005-01-3561, SAE, Detroit, MI. 

15. Ferris, J. B., 2006, "Capturing Planer Tire Enveloping Properties Using Static Constraint Modes," Proceedings of the ASME International Congress and Exposition, paper number IMECE2006-15260, ASME, Chicago, IL. 

16. Kern*, J. V., and Ferris, J. B., 2006, "Characterizing 2-D Topographic Mappings of Roads," Proceedings of the ASME International Congress and Exposition, paper number IMECE2006-15233, ASME, Chicago, IL. 

17. Wagner*, S. M., and Ferris, J. B., 2007, “Reduced Order ARIMA Models of 2-D Terrain Profiles Using Singular Value Decomposition," Proceedings of the ASME International Congress and Exposition, Vol. 16, pg 277-282, paper number IMECE2007-43388, ASME, Seattle, WA. 

18. Kern*, J.V., Ferris, J.B., 2007, “Development of a 3-D Vehicle-Terrain Measurement System Part I:  Equipment Setup,” Proceedings of ISTVS: Innovations in Terrain and Vehicle Systems, ISTVS, Fairbanks, AK.  

19. Wagner*, S.M., Kern*, J.V., Israel*, W.B., Ferris, J.B., 2007, “Development of a 3-D Vehicle-Terrain Measurement System Part II: Signal Processing and Validation,” Proceedings of ISTVS: Innovations in Terrain and Vehicle Systems, ISTVS, Fairbanks, AK.

20. Kern*, J.V., Ferris, J.B., 2007, “Developing ARIMA Road Profile Models with a Stationary Residual Process,” Proceedings of the Fifth IFAC Symposium on Advances in Automotive Control, AAC 2007. Aptos, CA.

21. Detweiler*, Z., and Ferris, J. B., 2008, “Uniform Grid Spacing for Three Dimensional High Fidelity Terrain Profiles,” Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems, Paper Identification Number 14, ISTVS, Turin, Italy.

22. Smith*, H., Ferris, J. B., 2008, “Post Processing Techniques to Correct Inertial Errors in High Fidelity Terrain Topology Measurements,” Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems, Paper Identification Number 13, ISTVS, Turin, Italy.

23. Müller*, T., Ferris, J. B., Detweiler*, Z., and Smith*, H., 2009, "Identifying Vehicle Model Parameters using Measured Terrain Data," Proceedings of the SAE World Congress, Paper Number 2009-01-1197, Society of Automotive Engineers, Detroit, MI. 

24. Chemistruck*, H. M., Ferris, J.B., 2010, “Compact Models of Terrain Surfaces,” Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Vol. 2, pg 125-132, Paper Number 4037, ASME, Boston, MA.

25. Kawale*, S. J., Ferris, J. B., 2011, “Developing a Methodology to Synthesize Terrain Profiles and Evaluate their Statistical Properties,” Proceedings of the SAE World Congress and Exhibition, April 12-14, Cobo Center, Detroit, Michigan, Paper Number 2011-01-0182 (doi:10.4271/2011-01-0182).

26. Ma*, R., Ferris, J.B., 2011, “Terrain Gridding Using a Stochastic Weighting Function,” Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Vol. 2, pg 375-381, October 31 – November 2, Arlington, Virginia 

27. Chin*, P.A., Ferris, J.B., 2012, "Improving Markov Chain Models for Road Profiles Simulation via Definition of States," Proceedings of the ASME/IEEE American Control Conference, Paper Number 2080, 2012 American Control Conference (ACC), pg 2102-2107, Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, Montréal, Canada on June 27-June 29, 2012.

28. Ma*, R., Reid, A., Ferris, J.B., 2012, “Capturing Planar Tire Properties Using Constraint Modes,” Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC 2012, Vol 3 Pages: 487-493, Paper Number 8552, October 17-19, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

29. Chin*, P.A., Ferris, J.B., 2012, "Methodology for Optimizing First Order Markov Chains of Spectrally Decomposed Terrain Profiles," Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Vol. 3, pg 299-307, Paper Number 8746, October 17-19, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

30. Lambeth*, J. N., Ferris, J.B., Reid, A., Gorsich, D., 2012.  “Developing a Compact Continuous State Markov Chain for Terrain Road Profiles.” Proceedings of the SAE World Congress and Exhibition, April 16-18, Cobo Center, Detroit, Michigan, Paper Number 2013-01-0629. doi:10.4271/2013-01-0629

31. Bandy*, R.A., Cho*, S., Ferris, J.B., Schlinkheider, J., and Wimmershoff, M., 2014, "Location-Aware Adaptive Vehicle Dynamics System: Linear Chassis Predictions," Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC2014), Paper Number DSCC2014-6092, October 22-24, San Antonio, TX, USA.

32. Deasy*, C.M., Ferris, J.B., Tjhung, T., and Horn, E., 2014, "A Nodal Uncertainty Method to Detect Localized Events from Measured Terrain Surfaces," Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC2014), Paper Number DSCC2014-6242, October 22-24, San Antonio, TX, USA.

33. Ferris, J.B., and Pereira*, S., 2018, "Stuck in a Rut:  Rut Depth Measurement Issues and a Galerkin Mitigation Technique," Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on Pavement Surface Characteristics: SURF 2018 – Vehicle to Road Connectivity, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, May 2-4, 2018.

(Co-author notation: *student or intern under supervision of Managing Member, John B. Ferris)

**Only journal and conference papers that were peer reviewed based on the entire paper are included.  Presentations, papers and posters presented at professional meetings, conference papers reviewed based on abstract alone, and technical reports are not included.