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Author:

Bird, John Joseph

Title:

Atmospherically Aware Aircraft Guidance Using In Situ Observations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

UAV
drone
atmospherically aware
autonomy
reinforcement learning
flight planning
soaring

File:

Download bird_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
George Spencer Young, Outside Member

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:

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:

Perumalla, Aniruddha

Title:

Optimal Waypoint Guidance for Collision Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

UAV
collision avoidance
autonomy
aircraft
aviation

File:

Download AP_masters_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Fehl, Matthew

Title:

Design and Implementation of an Autonomy Framework for UAV Research and Development

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

UAV
autonomy
PCB
flight control
quadrotor
state estimation
lighter than air vehicle
robotics
aerospace

File:

Download Matthew_Fehl_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Program Head/Chair
Michael Andrew Yukish, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon W Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor