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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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Author:: Corle, Ethan Lewis
Title:: Time-Domain Aeroelastic Stability Predictions of a Semi-Span Tiltrotor
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: tiltrotor
whirl flutter
aeroelastic
stability analysis
rotorcraft
vortex particle method
time-domain stability
File:: Download corle-dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:: Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Robert Lee Campbell, Outside Member
Dr. Matthew Floros, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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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

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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

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