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Author:

Chakrabarty, Anjan

Title:

FLIGHT PATH PLANNING OF UAV BASED ON ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY HARVESTING

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

path planning
UAV
energy harvestation

File:

Download Chakrabarty_MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Corbets, Jeffrey

Title:

Real-Time Trajectory Generation for Target Localization Using Micro Air Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

uav
mav
localization
planning
path
trajectory
real time
micro
target
tracking

File:

Download JeffCorbetsThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Depenbusch, Nathan Thomas

Title:

Atmospheric Energy Harvesting for Small Uninhabited Aircraft by Gust Soaring

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

gust energy harvesting

File:

Download NathanDepenbusch-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tierney, Shane

Title:

AUTOROTATION PATH PLANNING USING BACKWARDS REACHABLE SET AND OPTIMAL CONTROL

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

reachable set
optimal control
autorotation

File:

Download ShaneTierney-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Pitchaiah, Sivakumar

Title:

Feedback control and optimization using adaptive reduced order models

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Nonlinear control
Process control
Proper orthogonal decomposition
Partial differential equation
Model reduction

File:

Download SP-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Sarfraz, Sana

Title:

STEREO VISION FOR AUTONOMOUS GROUND-BASED TRACKING OF MIGRATING RAPTORS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

computer vision
systems
distributed
tracking
estimation
bird migration

File:

Download Thesis_Corrected_Format.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Williams, Patrick

Title:

Coupling of Nonlinear Estimation and Dynamic Sensor Tasking Applied to Satellite Tracking

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Nonlinear Estimation
Sensor Tasking
Space Situational Awareness
Satellite Dynamics

File:

Download PatrickWilliams-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Bradley Spencer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Special Member
Richard Lee Erwin, Special Member

Author:

Yomchinda, Thanan

Title:

Real-time Path Planning and Autonomous Control for Helicopter Autorotation

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Autorotation
Path Planning
Helicopter Control
Dynamic Inversion
Trajectory Tracking

File:

Download ThananYomchindaDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Special Member

Author:

Truskin, Benjamin Louis

Title:

Vision-based Deck Estimation for Autonomous Ship-board Landing

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Vision
Estimation
Aerospace
Engineering

File:

Download BenTruskin-MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Grande, Nicholas Alexander

Title:

Safe Autonomous Flare and Landing During Autorotation Through Wind Shear

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

flare
wind shear
autorotation
backwards reachable set
safe landing set

File:

Download NickGrande-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Brown, Alexander Allen

Title:

Model-based Inclusion of Previewed Information for Lateral Vehicle State and Environment Estimation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

MODEL-BASED ESTIMATION
PREVIEW ESTIMATION
STATE ESTIMATION
VEHICLE DYNAMICS
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

File:

Download Brown-Dissertation_Final_ETD.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Special Member
Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Special Member

Author:

Daugherty, Shawn Christopher

Title:

Improving Autonomous Soaring via Energy State Estimation and Extremum Seeking Control

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

autonomous soaring
uav
sb-xc
autonomous
thermal
thermal soaring

File:

Download Shawn_Daugherty-Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bird, John Joseph

Title:

Wind Estimation and Closed-loop Control of a Soaring Vehicle

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

soaring
uav
uas
drone
energy harvesting
bio-inspired
dynamic soaring
wind mapping
atmosphere
glider

File:

Download Bird-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Makovkin, Dmitriy

Title:

Optimal Persistent Monitoring Using Coordinated Soaring

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Persistent
monitoring
surveillance
thermalling
thermal
glider
soaring
MacCready
optimal
cruise
airspeed
aggregate
departure

File:

Download Dmitriy_Makovkin_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Okita, Noriaki

Title:

Development of a novel foot slip sensor algorithm

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

slip sensor
gait cycle detection
walking robot
stick-slip
stochastic state estimation
anomaly detection

File:

Download Nori_Okita_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Jason Zachary Moore, Committee Member

Author:

Pentzer, Jesse Lorenzo

Title:

Utilization of ICR Kinematics in Estimation, Control, and Energy-Aware Mission Planning for Skid-Steer Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

ground robotics
robot performance
motion estimation
state estimation
skid-steer robotics
path planning

File:

Download Pentzer_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Zuqun

Title:

coordinated transport of a slung load by a team of autonomous rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

multilift
OBTLC
coordinated transport
autonomous rotorcraft
slung load

File:

Download ZuQun_Li-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Suarez Mullins, Astrid

Title:

Observations and Modeling of the Effects of Waves and Rotors on Submeso and Turbulence Variability within the Stable Boundary Layer over Central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

high-resolution modeling
wavelets
model verification
waves
rotors
submeso
turbulence variability
stable boundary layer

File:

Download Suarez_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David R Stauffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Spencer Young, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Depenbusch, Nathan Thomas

Title:

Development and Field Testing of an Autonomous Soaring System

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

autonomous soaring
aerial robotics
thermal soaring
soaring
unmanned aerial vehicle
UAV

File:

Download Depenbusch-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Walsh, Gregory Daniel

Title:

A PRELIMINARY ACOUSTIC INVESTIGATION OF A COAXIAL HELICOPTER IN HIGH-SPEED FLIGHT

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Acoustics
Coaxial Helicopter
Rotorcraft
Rotorcraft Acoustics
Helicopter

File:

Download Walsh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member