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Author:: Geiger, Brian Raymond
Title:: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Trajectory Planning with Direct Methods
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: direct collocation
uav
path planning
trajectory optimization
neural network
flight test
File:: Download BrianGeiger-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Jack W Langelaan, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member

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Author:: Lee, Dooyong
Title:: Simulation and Control of a Helicopter Operating in a Ship Airwake
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: helicopter simulation
stochastic airwake
pilot model
validation
SAS optimization
File:: Download DooyongLee_thesis_etd.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

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Author:: Alpman, Emre
Title:: Reynolds Stress Modeling of Separated Turbulent Flows over Helicopters
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Reynolds Stress Model
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Parallel Processing
Helicopter Fuselage Aerodynamics
Separated Flow
File:: Download EmreAlpmanPhDThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Lyle Norman Long, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barnes Warnock Mccormick Jr., Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Yousry Y Azmy, Committee Member

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Author:: Ross, James Alton
Title:: Computer Vision and Target Localization Algorithms for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: autonomous
georeferencing
target localization
computer vision
unmanned aerial vehicle
UAV
File:: Download James_Ross_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Lyle Norman Long, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Sezer-Uzol, Nilay
Title:: UNSTEADY FLOW SIMULATIONS AROUND COMPLEX GEOMETRIES USING STATIONARY OR ROTATING UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: unsteady flow
ship airwake
wind turbine
large eddy simulation
LES
unstructured
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
File:: Download NilayPhDThesis-Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Lyle Norman Long, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Yousry Azmy, Committee Member

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