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Author:

Gonzalez, Bianca

Title:

Human-Intuitable Collision Avoidance for Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Collision Avoidance
Urban Air Mobility
Potential Fields
Drones
Path Planning
Velocity-based Potential Field Approach

File:

Download Bianca_Gonzalez_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Lay, Kenjiro

Title:

Design, Fabrication, and Experimental Evaluation of a Centrifugally-Tuned Passive Balancer

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Passive Balancing
Balancer
Rotor
Rotorcraft
Structural Dynamics
Dynamics
Vibration
Vibration Suppression

File:

Download MSThesis_KenjiroLay.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Doshi, Mitansh Sharad

Title:

Studying, Tailoring, and Harnessing Structural Instability for Advanced Thin-Walled and Architected Structures

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

buckling
instability
aerospace
mechanical
thin-walled
composites
machine-learning
FEA
CAD
flexible structures
spherical shells
cylindrical shells
metamaterials
architected structures
soft structures

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Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Major Field Member
Charles Bakis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xin Ning, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cope, Erin

Title:

Semi-Analytic Approach to Rapid Orbit Determination for the Perturbed Two-Body Problem

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

orbit determination
general perturbation theory
NORAD Elements
Astrodynamics
Conjugate unscented transform
statistical linearization
nonlinear least squares

File:

Download Cope_PSU_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Committee Member
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member

Author:

Kandias, Constantinos

Title:

Experimental Scaling of Hovering Rotorcraft Aerodynamics in Hyperbaric Conditions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Experimental
Aerospace
Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Aerodynamics

File:

Download kandias-thesis-ms.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark A Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Sheeran, Brett

Title:

Robot Guided Emergency Evacuation from a Simulated Space Station

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Evacuation robot
virtual reality
international space station
human robot interaction
active shooter
evacuation
fire
presence
cybershoes
emergy

File:

Download Brett_Sheeran_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Member
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Zarader, Chloe

Title:

Preparation of Polyetheretherketone-Nickel Composite Particles Using Ball Milling for Cold Sprayed Coatings on Fiber Reinforced Plastics

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

composite particles
ball milling
cold spray
erosion coating
plasma treatment

File:

Download Zarader-CompositeColdSpray.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Melo Cruz, Arthur

Title:

Value Alignment in Ethical Dilemmas Through Reinforcement Learning

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
Ethical Dilemma
Robot Ethics
Machine Ethics
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence

File:

Download Melo_Cruz_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Opazo Toro, Tomas

Title:

Power Minimization For Fixed-Pitch Coaxial Rotors In Hover

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

coaxial rotor power minimization optimization control allocation

File:

Download toopazo_psu_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jacob Langelaan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joseph Horn, Major Field Member
Puneet Singla, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Feng, Vincent

Title:

Spectroscopy of Chamber Plasma and Plume of a 2.4-GHz Microwave Electrothermal Thruster

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

MET
Electric Propulsion
Spectroscopy

File:

Download Vincent_Feng_Master_Thesis_Final_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Committee Member