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Author:

Metkowski, Leonard P

Title:

Experimental study of wake impingement on a horizontal stabalizer

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aerodynamics
Helicopter
Hubs
Empennage
Experimental
Interactional Aerodynamics
Helicopter Hub Drag
Experimental Design
Helicopter Hub Experiments
Horizontal Stabilizer
Helicopter Stabilizer
Experiments on Helicopter Stabilizers
Wake Impingement

File:

Download Metkowski_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Prakash, Keerti

Title:

MODELING FOR POLYMER/ CARBON NANOTUBE NANOCOMPOSITE TO ESTIMATE STRUCTURAL DAMPING IN A ROTOCRAFT BLADE

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

nanocomposite
damping
carbon nanotubes
interfacial slip
stick-slip
randomly oriented
rotor blade
rotorcraft

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Keerti_Prakash.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Shaw, Matthew Joseph

Title:

Design of Interplanetary Trajectories with Multiple Synergetic Gravitational Assist Maneuvers via Particle Swarm Optimization

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

orbital mechanics
interplanetary trajectory design
interplanetary travel
astrodynamics
space mission design
Particle Swarm Optimization
gravitational assist
multiple gravitational assist
gravity assist
multiple gravity assist
synergetic flyby
powered flyby
synergetic gravitational assist
synergetic gravity assist
powered gravitational assist
powered gravity assist
trajectory design

File:

Download ShawMatthew-MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Bradley Spencer, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Asif, Mohammed

Title:

PROTOTYPING AND OPTIMIZATION OF A MINIATURE MICROWAVE-FREQUENCY ION THRUSTER

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

space propulsion
plasma propulsion
propulsion
electric propulsion
rocket propulsion
ion engines
microwave thruster
ion thruster
experimental research on electric propulsion
computational research on electric propulsion
miniaturization of electric propulsion
ion thrusters for CubeSats
electric propulsion for CubeSats

File:

Download Asif_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael M. Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Kerr, Evan M

Title:

ADVANCED HYBRID ROCKET PROPULSION UNIT FOR CUBESATS (PUC): DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A TITANIUM TANK

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CubeSat
Propulsion unit
hybrid rocket
additive manufacturing
powder bed fusion
direct metal laser sintering
DMLS
PBF

File:

Download Kerr_Thesis_Master_s_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Axten, Christopher Joseph

Title:

Utilizing Transitional CFD to Analyze the Performance of a Racing Sailplane

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics
sailplane
boundary layer transition
aircraft performance
aircraft design

File:

Download Axten_C_Master_Thesis_Draft_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Shoemaker, Christopher Merrill

Title:

Unsteady Pressure Loading in High Aspect Ratio, Wall-Bounded Jets

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rectangular Nozzle
Aft-Deck
Pressure
PIV
Shadowgraph
Unsteady Pressure Loading
Kulites
Shock Tube

File:

Download CShoemaker_Thesis_v7.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Cornelius, Jason

Title:

Efficient CFD Approaches for Coaxial Rotor Simulations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Multicopter
Multicopters
Coaxial Rotor
Coaxial Rotors
CFD Simulation
Rotorcraft
Helicopter
STAR-CCM+
RotCFD
Mixing-Plane
Blade-Element
Time-Accurate
Blade-Resolved
Blade-Modeled
Quadcopter

File:

Download Jason_Cornelius_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Kinzel, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Major, Desirae

Title:

Design, Analysis, and Testing of Leading-Edge Protection Tapes for Wind Turbine Blades

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Renewable Energy
Wind Turbines
Annual Energy Production
Leading-edge Protection Tape
Wind Turbine Leading-edge Erosion

File:

Download PSU_Masters_Thesis_Final_Desirae_Major.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Nino, Michael

Title:

Time-optimal, constrained, satellite reorientation maneuver using inverse dynamics

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Reorientation
Rigidbody Satellite
Satellite
Optimal Reorientation
PSO
Particle Swarm Optimization
Quaternion
Euler Angle
Optimal Control
Time Optimal Control
Michael Nino
Mike Nino
Melton
Dr. Melton
Robert G. Melton
Aerospace Engineering

File:

Download Mike_Nino_Updated_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Ranka, Amrat Arvind

Title:

Conceptual development of casing Patterns to reduce the aerodynamic losses in an axial turbine stage

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Turbines
axial gas turbine
casing grooves
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
Tip-Leakage losses
Tip-mitigation studies
Turbomachinery
AFTRF
leakage Vortex
Horseshoe Vortex

File:

Download Final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ciliberto, David

Title:

Extended Kalman Filtering in Burdet Coordinates for Orbit Determination

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Kalman Filtering
Estimation
Orbit Determination
Space Situational Awareness
Regularization

File:

Download DavidCiliberto-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Patel, Khushboo

Title:

OPTIMAL LANDING TRAJECTORIES ON THE MOON USING LAMBERT TARGETING AND PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Multiple precision landings
Optimal trajectories

File:

Download Patel_Khushboo_MS_thesis_August_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

David Bradley Spencer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Azhar, Mohammad

Title:

Low Thrust Transfers between Halo Orbits in the Earth-Moon system

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Low thrust
halo orbits
Earth-Moon System
transfers

File:

Download Mohammad_azhar_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mirzaei, Mehrdad

Title:

OPTIMAL FEEDBACK CONTROL DESIGN FOR A HYPERSONIC REENTRY VEHICLE

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Optimal Control
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation
Optimal Feedback Control
Trajectory Optimization
Hypersonic Reentry Vehicle
Sparse Collocation Method
Convex Optimization

File:

Download Mehrdad_Mirzaei_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Roffman, Kaila

Title:

Shape Change and Structural Performance of Cable-Actuated Cylindrical Tensegrities

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Tensegrity
triplex
deployable booms
triplex boom
cable actuated
shape change
shape changing tensegrity

File:

Download Roffman_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Getz, David

Title:

Design, Modeling and Testing of an Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System for Wind Turbines

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

electrothermal
deicing
antiicing
ice protection system
wind turbines
thermodynamics
icing

File:

Download Getz_thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member

Author:

Palazzo, Thomas

Title:

A Levy flight based approach to solving optimal control problems with indirect methods

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Optimal Control
Heuristic Optimization
Levy flights
Metaheuristics
Trajectory optimization
Aerospace Engineering

File:

Download Palazzo-MS-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Volpe, Marc

Title:

Design, Development, and Field Testing of the GlacierHawk: an Unmanned Aerial System for Geoscience Data Retrieval

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Unmanned Aerial System
glaciology
geoscience
aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
flight
Greenland
Helheim
glacier
geoPebble
sensor

File:

Download MarcVolpe-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member

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

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

Author:

Rosenberger, Tyler

Title:

An Open-Loop Trajectory Implementation for Free Fall to Powered Flight Transition for Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Particle Swarm Optimization
Trajectory Design
PSO
Heuristic
Quadcopter
Quadrotor
Gazebo
ROS
Controls
Implementation
Free Fall
Optimization
Open-Loop

File:

Download Tyler_Rosenberger_Open-Loop_Free_Fall_to_Powered_Flight_Transition.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Crouse, Jacob

Title:

Linear Model Predictive Control with Envelope Detection for Aerial Vehicle-Ship Intercept Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

control systems
model predictive control
signal processing
ship motion
multirotor
digital control
optimal control
MATLAB
path planning

File:

Download JacobCrouse-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric N. Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jaworski, Thomas

Title:

Development of an Acoustic Prediction System for Conceptual Design and Analysis of Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Acoustics
Rotorcraft
Aerospace
BVI
HSI
Noise

File:

Download Thomas_Jaworski_Thesis_2020_Release.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member

Author:

Christoffel, Tyler T

Title:

Simulation of a Helicopter Operating in a Turbulent Airwake with Atmospheric Boundary Layer Effects

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft Simulation
CFD
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Aerospace Engineering
Turbulent Airwake
OpenFOAM
MATLAB
SIMULINK

File:

Download Tyler_Christoffel_ThesisFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jules Washington Lindau, V, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lanari, Valentin

Title:

Benchtop and rotating tests of a fluidic flexible matrix composite lag damper for stiff-inplane hingeless rotor blades

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Fluidic flexible matrix composite
lag damper
hingeless
stiff-inplane
soft-inplane
rotor blade
lead-lag
damped absorber
benchtop
rotor stand
experimental testing
Adverse environment rotor test stand

File:

Download Valentin_Lanari_-_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

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:

Scupski, Nick

Title:

Experiments On The Reduced Noise Benefits of A New Configuration of Fluid Shields In Aircraft Engine Exhaust Nozzles

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

supersonic
jet
noise
dual stream
tactical
aeroacoustics
single-stream;
dual-stream
Acoustics
Aircraft
Fluid Shield
bypass
core

File:

Download MS_thesis-JetNoise_12-14-20_V12_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Scroger, Shawn

Title:

Urban Air Mobility Rotor Icing Performance Degradation

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Urban Air Mobility
Advanced Aerial Mobility
Icing
Rotorcraft Icing
Performance Degradation
UAV
UAM
AAM
Performance Prediction

File:

Download ShawnScroger_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Mukherjee, Bhaskar

Title:

A Preliminary Investigation of Propeller-Wing Interaction Noise for eVTOL Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aeroacoustics
propeller-wing aerodynamics
propeller-wing acoustics
low speed propeller noise
eVTOL
UAM
low-fidelity
fundamental noise

File:

Download Bhaskar_thesis_corrections_ver1.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, 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:

Kravet, Ethan

Title:

Microwave Ignition of ASCENT via Surface Wave Generator

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

ASCENT
AF-M315E
Microwave Ignition
Microwave Smelting
Emergency Power Unit
EPU
Ilmenite
Lunar Regolith
ISRU
In-situ resource gathering
Plasma
Green monopropellant
Microwave resonant cavity
Microwave cavity
Hydrazine

File:

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Committee Members:

Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Jacob Langelaan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sean David Knecht, Committee Member
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Special Signatory

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

Author:

Villa, Amber

Title:

Computational Modeling of Monitoring within Human-Autonomy Teams with Novel Delegations of Authority and Responsibility

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

human-autonomy teams
computational modelling
Work Models that Compute
Advanced Air Mobility
Authority/Responsibility

File:

Download A._Villa_Revised_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member

Author:

Yao, Yao

Title:

Soft Optoelectronic Skins for Flexible and Foldable Structures

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Flexible Electronics
Foldable Structure

File:

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Committee Members:

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