publications

1 authored book · 29 refereed journal articles · 36 refereed conference papers.

2026

  1. TAC
    Regret Analysis of Online LQ Control Using Trajectory Prediction and Tracking
    Yitian Chen, Timothy L. Molloy, Tyler Summers, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2026
    Accepted – In Press

2025

  1. JGCD
    Prying Pedestrian Surveillance-Evasion: Minimum-Time Evasion from an Agile Pursuer
    Philipp Braun, Timothy L. Molloy, and Iman Shames
    Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2025
  2. RA-L
    ZORMS-LfD: Learning from Demonstrations with Zeroth-Order Random Matrix Search
    Olivia Dry, Timothy L. Molloy, Wanxin Jin, and 1 more author
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025
  3. L-CSS
    ISC-POMDPs: Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes with Initial-State Dependent Costs
    Timothy L. Molloy
    IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2025
  4. TAC
    Optimal Linear Filtering for Discrete-Time Systems with Infinite-Dimensional Measurements
    Maxwell M. Varley, Timothy L. Molloy, and Girish N. Nair
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025
  5. CDC
    Two-Player Dynamic Potential LQ Games with Sequentially Revealed Costs
    Yitian Chen, Timothy L. Molloy, and Iman Shames
    In 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2025
  6. ICRA
    Asynchronous Multi-Object Tracking with an Event Camera
    Angus Apps, Ziwei Wang, Vladimir Perejogin, and 2 more authors
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

2024

  1. T-RO
    Asynchronous Blob Tracker for Event Cameras
    Ziwei Wang, Timothy L. Molloy, Pieter Goor, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024
  2. L-CSS
    A Framework for Bayesian Quickest Change Detection in General Dependent Stochastic Processes
    Jasmin James, Jason J. Ford, and Timothy L. Molloy
    IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2024
    Also presented at CDC 2024
  3. TAC
    Entropy-Regularized Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes
    Timothy L. Molloy and Girish N. Nair
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024
  4. CDC
    On Insufficiently Informative Measurements in Bayesian Quickest Change Detection and Identification
    Jason J. Ford, Jasmin James, and Timothy L. Molloy
    In 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2024
  5. ACC
    Extended Kalman Filtering for Recursive Online Discrete-Time Inverse Optimal Control
    Tian Zhao and Timothy L. Molloy
    In 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), 2024
  6. ACC
    Active Fixed-Sample-Size Hypothesis Testing via POMDP Value Function Lipschitz Bounds
    Timothy L. Molloy and Girish N. Nair
    In 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), 2024
  7. ACC
    Controlled Sensing for Communication-Efficient Filtering and Smoothing in POMDPs
    Changrong Liu, Timothy L. Molloy, and Girish N. Nair
    In 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), 2024

2023

  1. Automatica
    Exactly Optimal Bayesian Quickest Change Detection for Hidden Markov Models
    Jason J. Ford, Jasmin James, and Timothy L. Molloy
    Automatica, 2023
  2. TAC
    Smoother Entropy for Active State Trajectory Estimation and Obfuscation in POMDPs
    Timothy L. Molloy and Girish N. Nair
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023
  3. CDC
    Asymptotically Optimal Finite-Dimensional Approximations for Linear Filtering with Infinite-Dimensional Measurements
    Maxwell M. Varley, Timothy L. Molloy, and Girish N. Nair
    In 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023
  4. NeurIPS
    Revisiting Implicit Differentiation for Learning Problems in Optimal Control
    Ming Xu, Timothy L. Molloy, and Stephen Gould
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
  5. L4DC
    Regret Analysis of Online LQR Control via Trajectory Prediction and Tracking
    Yitian Chen, Timothy L. Molloy, Tyler Summers, and 1 more author
    In Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC), 2023
  6. IFAC
    A Spectral Method of Moments for Hierarchical Imitation Learning
    Nguyen Nguyen, Timothy L. Molloy, Girish N. Nair, and 1 more author
    In 22nd IFAC World Congress, 2023
  7. NOLCOS
    Minimum-Time Escape from a Circular Region for a Dubins Car
    Timothy L. Molloy and Iman Shames
    In 12th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS 2022), 2023

2022

  1. Book
    Inverse Optimal Control and Inverse Noncooperative Dynamic Game Theory: A Minimum-Principle Approach
    Timothy L. Molloy, Jairo Inga Charaja, Sören Hohmann, and 1 more author
    2022
    Bib
  2. ACC
    JEM: Joint Entropy Minimization for Active State Estimation with Linear POMDP Costs
    Timothy L. Molloy and Girish N. Nair
    In 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), 2022
  3. ACC
    Kalman Filtering for Discrete-Time Linear Systems with Infinite-Dimensional Observations
    Maxwell M. Varley, Timothy L. Molloy, and Girish N. Nair
    In 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), 2022

2021

  1. T-RO
    Bayesian Experimental Design with Application to Dynamical Vehicle Models
    Matthew Cooper, James McGree, Timothy L. Molloy, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021
  2. RA-L
    Intelligent Reference Curation for Visual Place Recognition Via Bayesian Selective Fusion
    Timothy L. Molloy, Tobias Fischer, Michael Milford, and 1 more author
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021
    Also presented at ICRA 2021
  3. TAC
    Misspecified and Asymptotically Minimax Robust Quickest Change Diagnosis
    Timothy L. Molloy
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021
  4. ECC
    Active Trajectory Estimation for Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes via Conditional Entropy
    Timothy L. Molloy and Girish N. Nair
    In 2021 European Control Conference (ECC), 2021
  5. ACC
    Smoothing-Averse Control: Covertness and Privacy from Smoothers
    Timothy L. Molloy and Girish N. Nair
    In 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), 2021

2020

  1. Automatica
    Online Inverse Optimal Control for Control-Constrained Discrete-Time Systems on Finite and Infinite Horizons
    Timothy L. Molloy, Jason J. Ford, and Tristan Perez
    Automatica, 2020
  2. JGCD
    Optimal Bearing-Only-Information Strategy for Unmanned Aircraft Collision Avoidance
    Timothy L. Molloy, Tristan Perez, and Brendan P. Williams
    Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2020
  3. Automatica
    On the Informativeness of Measurements in Shiryaev’s Bayesian Quickest Change Detection
    Jason J. Ford, Jasmin James, and Timothy L. Molloy
    Automatica, 2020
  4. TAC
    Inverse Open-Loop Noncooperative Differential Games and Inverse Optimal Control
    Timothy L. Molloy, Jairo Inga, Michael Flad, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020
  5. ICUAS
    A Novel Technique for Rejecting Non-Aircraft Artefacts in Above Horizon Vision-Based Aircraft Detection
    Jasmin James, Jason J. Ford, and Timothy L. Molloy
    In 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020
  6. AIAA
    Evaluation of the Rules of the Air for the Future of Air Traffic Management
    Timothy L. Molloy, Neale L. Fulton, Grace S. Garden, and 2 more authors
    In AIAA Aviation 2020 Forum, 2020

2019

  1. TCST
    Quickest Detection of Intermittent Signals with Application to Vision Based Aircraft Detection
    Jasmin James, Jason J. Ford, and Timothy L. Molloy
    IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2019
  2. TAC
    Minimax Robust Quickest Change Detection in Systems and Signals with Unknown Transients
    Timothy L. Molloy and Jason J. Ford
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019
  3. L-CSS
    Solution Sets for Inverse Non-Cooperative Linear-Quadratic Games
    Jairo Inga, Esther Bischoff, Timothy L. Molloy, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2019
    Also presented at CDC 2019
  4. ICUAS
    Below Horizon Aircraft Detection Using Deep Learning for Vision-Based Sense and Avoid
    Jasmin James, Jason J. Ford, and Timothy L. Molloy
    In 2019 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2019
  5. AIAC
    Collision Avoidance with Rules of the Air Compliance for Unmanned Aircraft Detect and Avoid
    Timothy L. Molloy, Grace S. Garden, Reece A. Clothier, and 2 more authors
    In 18th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC), 2019

2018

  1. Automatica
    Finite-Horizon Inverse Optimal Control for Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems
    Timothy L. Molloy, Jason J. Ford, and Tristan Perez
    Automatica, 2018
  2. RA-L
    Learning to Detect Aircraft for Long Range Vision-Based Sense and Avoid Systems
    Jasmin James, Jason J. Ford, and Timothy L. Molloy
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018
  3. CDC
    Online Inverse Optimal Control on Infinite Horizons
    Timothy L. Molloy, Jason J. Ford, and Tristan Perez
    In 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2018
  4. SYSID
    An Inverse Differential Game Approach to Modelling Bird Mid-Air Collision Avoidance Behaviours
    Timothy L. Molloy, Grace S. Garden, Tristan Perez, and 3 more authors
    In 18th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID), 2018

2017

  1. TSP
    Misspecified and Asymptotically Minimax Robust Quickest Change Detection
    Timothy L. Molloy and Jason J. Ford
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2017
  2. L-CSS
    Minimax Robust Quickest Change Detection with Exponential Delay Penalties
    Timothy L. Molloy, Justin M. Kennedy, and Jason J. Ford
    IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2017
    Also presented at CDC 2017
  3. L-CSS
    Change Detection for Under-Modelled Processes Using Mismatched Hidden Markov Model Test Filters
    Jasmin James, Jason J. Ford, and Timothy L. Molloy
    IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2017
    Also presented at CDC 2017
  4. JFR
    Detection of Aircraft Below the Horizon for Vision-Based Detect and Avoid in Unmanned Aircraft Systems
    Timothy L. Molloy, Jason J. Ford, and Luis Mejias
    Journal of Field Robotics, 2017
  5. CDC
    Inverse Noncooperative Differential Games
    Timothy L. Molloy, Jason J. Ford, and Tristan Perez
    In 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2017
  6. IFAC
    Inverse Noncooperative Dynamic Games
    Timothy L. Molloy, Jason J. Ford, and Tristan Perez
    In 20th IFAC World Congress (IFAC-PapersOnLine), 2017
  7. ICUAS
    Adaptive Detection Threshold Selection for Vision-Based Sense and Avoid
    Timothy L. Molloy, Jason J. Ford, and Luis Mejias
    In 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2017
  8. ASCC
    Quickest Detection of Intermittent Signals with Estimated Anomaly Times
    Jasmin James, Jason J. Ford, and Timothy L. Molloy
    In 11th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), 2017

2016

  1. TIT
    Asymptotic Minimax Robust Quickest Change Detection for Dependent Stochastic Processes with Parametric Uncertainty
    Timothy L. Molloy and Jason J. Ford
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2016
  2. CDC
    Discrete-Time Inverse Optimal Control with Partial-State Information: A Soft-Optimality Approach with Constrained State Estimation
    Timothy L. Molloy, Dorian Tsai, Jason J. Ford, and 1 more author
    In 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2016
  3. AUCC
    Asymptotic Quickest Change Detection and Isolation with Polynomial Delay Penalties
    Timothy L. Molloy
    In 2016 Australian Control Conference (AUCC), 2016
  4. AUCC
    Inverse Two-Player Zero-Sum Dynamic Games
    Dorian Tsai, Timothy L. Molloy, and Tristan Perez
    In 2016 Australian Control Conference (AUCC), 2016

2015

  1. SP
    Towards Strongly Consistent Online HMM Parameter Estimation Using One-Step Kerridge Inaccuracy
    Timothy L. Molloy and Jason J. Ford
    Signal Processing, 2015

2014

  1. ACRA
    Looming Aircraft Threats: Shape-Based Passive Ranging of Aircraft from Monocular Vision
    Timothy L. Molloy, Jason J. Ford, and Luis Mejias
    In 2014 Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), 2014
  2. AUCC
    Short-Data Recursive HMM Parameter Estimation for Rapid Vision-Based Aircraft Heading Estimation
    Timothy L. Molloy and Jason J. Ford
    In 2014 Australian Control Conference (AUCC), 2014
  3. FUSION
    Asymptotic Minimax Robust and Misspecified Lorden Quickest Change Detection for Dependent Stochastic Processes
    Timothy L. Molloy and Jason J. Ford
    In 17th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2014
  4. FUSION
    Compressed Sensing Using Hidden Markov Models with Application to Vision Based Aircraft Tracking
    Jason J. Ford, Timothy L. Molloy, and Joanne L. Hall
    In 17th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2014

2013

  1. JIRS
    Nonlinear H_∞ Control of UAVs for Collision Avoidance in Gusty Environments
    Xilin Yang, Luis Mejias, and Timothy L. Molloy
    Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 2013
  2. AUCC
    Consistent HMM Parameter Estimation Using Kerridge Inaccuracy Rates
    Timothy L. Molloy and Jason J. Ford
    In Australian Control Conference (AUCC 2013), 2013
    High Commendation, Best Student Paper
  3. AUCC
    HMM Relative Entropy Rate Concepts for Vision-Based Aircraft Manoeuvre Detection
    Timothy L. Molloy and Jason J. Ford
    In Australian Control Conference (AUCC), 2013

2012

  1. FUSION
    HMM Triangle Relative Entropy Concepts in Sequential Change Detection Applied to Vision-Based Dim Target Manoeuvre Detection
    Timothy L. Molloy and Jason J. Ford
    In 15th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2012
  2. ICUAS
    A Gust-Attenuation Controller for Fixed-Wing UAVs During Collision Avoidance Course
    Xilin Yang, Luis Mejias, and Timothy L. Molloy
    In 2012 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2012