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Author:

Osikowicz, Nathaniel

Title:

Shape Control of Tendon-Actuated Tensegrity Structures

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

tensegrity
control theory
space structure
tensegrity structure
robotics
soft robotics

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member

Author:

Gilga, Michael

Title:

Optimal Solar-Sail Trajectories Using Sun-Diving

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Solar Sail
Astrodynamics
Orbital Mechanics
Particle Swarm Optimization
Trajectory Optimization
Transfer Orbits
Sun-Diving

File:

Download Gilga_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

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:

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

Author:

Stueck, Clifford

Title:

Effective Use of an Analytical Approximation for the Relative Motion of Spacecraft on Hyperbolic Trajectories

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Hyperbolic Orbits
Relative Motion
Lagrange Expansion
Analytical Model

File:

Download Clifford_Stueck_Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert G. Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daning Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Stephans, Tyler

Title:

Material Management and Progress Detection for Construction on Earth and Beyond

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

mars
construction
automated construction
robot
simulation
material selection
progress monitoring
material management
robotics
computer vision

File:

Download StephansTyler_msThesis2023_MaterialManagemantAndProgressDetectionForConstructionOnEarthAndBeyond.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
Rob Leicht, Committee Member

Author:

Brownell, Matthew

Title:

A Time-Varying Subspace Method for Shape Estimation of a Flexible Spacecraft Membrane

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

subspace
spacecraft
flexible
solar
solar power
ERA
reduced-order modeling
analytical modeling
dynamics
structures
space structure
large

File:

Download Brownell_MastersThesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Committee Member
Andrew Sinclair, Special Signatory

Author:

Baker, Logan

Title:

Thermal Design and Analysis of the BlackCAT CubeSat

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

BlackCAT CubeSat
CubeSat
Thermal Analysis
Thermal Design
Astronomical CubeSat

File:

Download BAKER_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Robert G. Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilén, Committee Member
Abe Falcone, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor