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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

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

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

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

Author:

Sharan, Sharad

Title:

Design of Low Thrust Trajectories from Low Earth Orbit to Distant Retrograde Orbits by Particle Swarm Optimization

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Distant Retrograde Orbits
Particle Swarm Optimization
Low thrust transfer

File:

Download Sharan_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Dunbabin, Oliver

Title:

Rolling-Shutter Correction for Monocular Vision-Based Obstacle Mapping

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rolling shutter
progressive scan
Monocular vision
Visual mapping
SLAM
feature-point estimation
obstacle detection
obstacle avoidance
EKF
UKF
time-delay
time delay
time delay compensation
mapping algorithm
UAV
UAV mapping
localization
Simultaneous localization and mapping
Cameras
Image sequences
Layout
Trajectory
camera
image sequences
trajectory
image sensors
Kalman filters
motion estimation
nonlinear filters
SLAM (robots)
kalman filter
real-time vision
inverse depth parametrization
monocular SLAM
monocular simultaneous localization and mapping
extended Kalman filter
feature initialization
camera motion estimates
inverse depth
inverse depth parameterization
monocular mapping
rolling shutter time delay
GPS denied
navigation
feature-extraction
robot vision
computer vision
rolling-shutter model

File:

Download OliverDunbabin_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Norman Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Agarwal, Ankit

Title:

Evaluation of a Commercially Available Visual-Inertial Odometry Solution for Indoor Navigation

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

computer vision
vision based navigation
slam
autonomy

File:

Download agarwal_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Norman Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rosenberger, Tyler

Title:

An Open-Loop Trajectory Implementation for Free Fall to Powered Flight Transition for Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Particle Swarm Optimization
Trajectory Design
PSO
Heuristic
Quadcopter
Quadrotor
Gazebo
ROS
Controls
Implementation
Free Fall
Optimization
Open-Loop

File:

Download Tyler_Rosenberger_Open-Loop_Free_Fall_to_Powered_Flight_Transition.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Steratore, Benjamin

Title:

A Study of Heuristic Optimizers in Spacecraft Trajectory Problems

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Heuristic
Trajectory Optimization
Optimization
Particle Swarm Optimization
Gray Wolf Optimization
Ant Colony Optimization
Spacecraft

File:

Download Ben_Steratore_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Daning Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Scarcella, Peter Craig

Title:

Simultaneous Pose and Mapping of a Non-Cooperative Maneuvering Target Using an Octree-Based Approach

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

simultaneous localization and mapping
pose estimation
shape estimation
maneuver detection
octree
consider filter
interactive multiple model filter
variable state dimension filter

File:

Download Dissertation_Scarcella_3-19-2021.pdf

Committee Members:

David Bradley Spencer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Bradley Spencer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair