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Author:: Palazzo, Thomas
Title:: A Levy flight based approach to solving optimal control problems with indirect methods
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Optimal Control
Heuristic Optimization
Levy flights
Metaheuristics
Trajectory optimization
Aerospace Engineering
File:: Download Palazzo-MS-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Volpe, Marc
Title:: Design, Development, and Field Testing of the GlacierHawk: an Unmanned Aerial System for Geoscience Data Retrieval
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Unmanned Aerial System
glaciology
geoscience
aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
flight
Greenland
Helheim
glacier
geoPebble
sensor
File:: Download MarcVolpe-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member

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Author:: Andichamy, Veerandra Chakkarava
Title:: AN INVESTIGATION OF USING TIP LEAKAGE INTERRUPTER AND BLADE SLIT TO MITIGATE AERODYNAMIC LOSSES IN AXIAL TURBINE STAGE
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Axial Turbines
Tip Leakage Flow
Blade Slit
TLI
Turbomachinery
File:: Download Thesis_draft_Veerandra_Andichamy_Dec_4.pdf
Committee Members:: Cengiz Camci, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Savas Yavuzkurt, Outside Member
Jose Palacios, Committee Member
Michael P Kinzel, Committee Member
Yong W Kim, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Hromisin, Scott Michael
Title:: Aeroacoustic Characterization of Dual-Stream, Supersonic, Rectangular Exhaust Jets
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Aeroacoustics
Jet Noise
Supersonic jets
Multi-stream jets
File:: Download Hromisin_PhD_Dissertation_-_26Nov19_edit.pdf
Committee Members:: Philip John Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Jose Palacios, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Outside Member
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Shenoy, Ashish
Title:: Maximizing Propellant Consumption To Prepare An Impaired Satellite For Retrieval
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: PSO
Particle Swarm Optimization
Satellite
Retrieval
Impaired Satellite
Propellant Consumption
Orbital Elements
Gauss Variational Equations
GVE
File:: Download Ashish-Shenoy-Thesis-2019_Final_Form_Fixed.pdf
Committee Members:: Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

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Author:: Kimmel, Nathan
Title:: A Method for the Exploitation of Microlift for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: autonomy
soaring
microlift
thermal
thermal wall
thermal stream
thermal strand
autonomous
uav
autonomous soaring
File:: Download Nathan_Kimmel_A_Method_for_the_Exploitation_of_Microlift_for_Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicles.pdf
Committee Members:: Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member

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Author:: Reiter, Jason A
Title:: Spacecraft State Estimation and Stealth Through Orbit-Perturbing Maneuvers: A Game Theory Approach
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: sensor avoidance
astrodynamics
competitive coevolution
proximal policy optimization
strategy optimization
mission design
operations analysis
File:: Download Reiter-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: David Bradley Spencer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Bradley Spencer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Christopher C Byrne, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Outside Member
Richard Linares, Special Signatory
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member

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Author:: Li, Zhenda
Title:: Parameterized Trajectory Planning for Dynamic Soaring
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Dynamic Soaring
Trajectory Planning
Reinforcement Learning
Wind Field Estimation
File:: Download MS_Thesis_updated_format__2_.pdf
Committee Members:: Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daning Huang, Committee Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Special Signatory

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Author:: Schwab, David
Title:: Efficacy of Gaussian Process Regression for Angles-Only Initial Orbit Determination
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: orbital determination
supervised learning
Gaussian process
File:: Download Schwab_MastersThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member

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Author:: Pujet-Mercier, Mehdi
Title:: Uncertainty propagation for perturbed two-body orbits using Gaussian mixture models
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Kalman
Filtering
Gaussian Mixture
Molniya
Uncertainties
Two-body
Mixture models
Gaussian Sum Filter
Adaptive Gaussian
Ballistic coefficient
File:: Download MehdiPujetMercier-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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