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Author:

Axten, Rachel Marie

Title:

VTOL Freewing Proof of Concept Vehicle Development and Testing

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

adaptive
flight control
UAVs
VTOL
dynamic modeling

File:

Download VTOLFreewing_Axten_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Norman Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Simon W Miller, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, 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

Author:

Dai, Jingyao

Title:

Toughening of Boron Carbide Composites with Hierarchical Microstructuring

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

boron carbide
fracture toughness
toughening
ceramic composites
microstructure
field assisted sintering
micromechanics modeling
hardness
titanium diboride
hierarchical microstructure

File:

Download Jingyao-Dissertation-Final_0203.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Member
Jogender Singh, Outside Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Braga Nogueira Branco, Ricardo

Title:

Scalable fabrication and characterization of magnetically aligned and diazotized CNT-epoxy composites for interlaminar reinforcement of aerospace composites

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aerospace
materials
composites
carbon nanotubes
polymer nanocomposites
nanocomposites
nanotubes
functionalized
covalent functionalization
diazotization
three-point bending
fracture toughness
magnetic assembly

File:

Download RicardoBranco_MSThesis_SU21.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member

Author:

Uwazuruonye, Kaosisochi

Title:

Modeling Pilots' Visual Attention Using Enhanced Flight Vision Systems

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

pilot's visual attention
Enhanced flight vision system
machine learning
time series analysis
pilot's control behavior
low visibility

File:

Download Modeling_Pilots__Visual_Attention_Using_Enhanced_Flight_Vision_Systems.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Ruth Pritchett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Jois, Himavath

Title:

Evaluating Human Response to Robot-Administered Punishment

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

human-robot interaction
ethics
roboethics
authority
punishment
exoskeleton

File:

Download Jois-MS-Thesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Reddington, Jacob

Title:

Design, Development, and Tuning of a Gimbaled Coaxial UAV

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
co-axial tilting-head rotor
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
flight test

File:

Download Design__Development__and_Tuning_of_a_Gimbaled_Coaxial_UAV_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schulman, Samuel

Title:

Design, Manufacture, and Complexity of Habitable Origami Structures

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aerospace
origami
deployable structures
engineering
miura ori

File:

Download Samuel_Schulman_Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Xin Ning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jared Butler, Committee Member