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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

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

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:

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:

Chien, Wen Yu

Title:

Stereo-camera Occupancy Grid Mapping

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

3D occupancy grid mapping
stereo camera
RealSense
SLAM
UAV
inverse sensor model

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Chien_v20.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Chen, Zhouzhou

Title:

active stabilization of rotorcraft external slung loads in high speed flight using an active cargo hook

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Slung load
High-speed carriage
Active stabilization
Active cargo hook
Wind-tunnel test
System identification
Feedback control
Dynamic simulation

File:

Download AERSP_MS_Thesis_Zhouzhou_Chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Enciu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Farish, David

Title:

Large Eddy Simulations of Scaled Wind-Tunnel Experiments for Ship Airwake Analysis

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Large Eddy Simulations
LES
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD
Ship Airwake
Aerodynamics
Wind Tunnel Validation

File:

Download davidFarish-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Blessington, Ryan

Title:

Passive Balancer Development for Rotor Systems in Icing Conditions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Passive
Balancing
Passive Balancer
Structural
Dynamics
Structural Dynamics
Icing
Adverse environment
Rotor
rotorcraft
helicopter
imbalance
mass balance

File:

Download Blessington_MS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member