11. Low Thrust Transfers between Halo Orbits in the Earth-Moon system Open Access Author: Azhar, Mohammad Title: Low Thrust Transfers between Halo Orbits in the Earth-Moon system Graduate Program: Aerospace Engineering Keywords: Low thrusthalo orbitsEarth-Moon Systemtransfers File: Download Mohammad_azhar_thesis.pdf Committee Members: Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorPuneet Singla, Committee MemberAmy Ruth Pritchett, Committee MemberAmy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
12. OPTIMAL FEEDBACK CONTROL DESIGN FOR A HYPERSONIC REENTRY VEHICLE Open Access Author: Mirzaei, Mehrdad Title: OPTIMAL FEEDBACK CONTROL DESIGN FOR A HYPERSONIC REENTRY VEHICLE Graduate Program: Aerospace Engineering Keywords: Optimal ControlHamilton-Jacobi-Bellman EquationOptimal Feedback ControlTrajectory OptimizationHypersonic Reentry VehicleSparse Collocation MethodConvex Optimization File: Download Mehrdad_Mirzaei_Thesis.pdf Committee Members: Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorRobert Graham Melton, Committee MemberAmy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
13. A Levy flight based approach to solving optimal control problems with indirect methods Open Access Author: Palazzo, Thomas Title: A Levy flight based approach to solving optimal control problems with indirect methods Graduate Program: Aerospace Engineering Keywords: Optimal ControlHeuristic OptimizationLevy flightsMetaheuristicsTrajectory optimizationAerospace Engineering File: Download Palazzo-MS-thesis.pdf Committee Members: Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorRobert Graham Melton, Committee MemberAmy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
14. Maximizing Propellant Consumption To Prepare An Impaired Satellite For Retrieval Open Access Author: Shenoy, Ashish Title: Maximizing Propellant Consumption To Prepare An Impaired Satellite For Retrieval Graduate Program: Aerospace Engineering Keywords: PSOParticle Swarm OptimizationSatelliteRetrievalImpaired SatellitePropellant ConsumptionOrbital ElementsGauss Variational EquationsGVE File: Download Ashish-Shenoy-Thesis-2019_Final_Form_Fixed.pdf Committee Members: Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorAmy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/ChairPuneet Singla, Committee Member
15. Efficacy of Gaussian Process Regression for Angles-Only Initial Orbit Determination Open Access Author: Schwab, David Title: Efficacy of Gaussian Process Regression for Angles-Only Initial Orbit Determination Graduate Program: Aerospace Engineering Keywords: orbital determinationsupervised learningGaussian process File: Download Schwab_MastersThesis.pdf Committee Members: Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorAmy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/ChairRobert Graham Melton, Committee Member
16. Uncertainty propagation for perturbed two-body orbits using Gaussian mixture models Open Access Author: Pujet-Mercier, Mehdi Title: Uncertainty propagation for perturbed two-body orbits using Gaussian mixture models Graduate Program: Aerospace Engineering Keywords: KalmanFilteringGaussian MixtureMolniyaUncertaintiesTwo-bodyMixture modelsGaussian Sum FilterAdaptive GaussianBallistic coefficient File: Download MehdiPujetMercier-Dissertation.pdf Committee Members: Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorRobert Graham Melton, Committee MemberAmy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
17. Design of Low Thrust Trajectories from Low Earth Orbit to Distant Retrograde Orbits by Particle Swarm Optimization Open Access 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 OrbitsParticle Swarm OptimizationLow thrust transfer File: Download Sharan_Thesis.pdf Committee Members: Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorAmy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/ChairPuneet Singla, Committee Member
18. A Study of Heuristic Optimizers in Spacecraft Trajectory Problems Open Access Author: Steratore, Benjamin Title: A Study of Heuristic Optimizers in Spacecraft Trajectory Problems Graduate Program: Aerospace Engineering Keywords: HeuristicTrajectory OptimizationOptimizationParticle Swarm OptimizationGray Wolf OptimizationAnt Colony OptimizationSpacecraft File: Download Ben_Steratore_Final_Thesis.pdf Committee Members: Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorAmy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/ChairPuneet Singla, Committee MemberDaning Huang, Committee Member