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Start Over Graduate Program Aerospace Engineering Committee Member Dr David Spencer

1. Trajectory Design Using Approximate Analytic Solutions of the N-Body Problem

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Open Access
Author:
Benavides, Julio César
Title:
Trajectory Design Using Approximate Analytic Solutions of the N-Body Problem
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
N-Body Problem
Series Solutions
Numerical Integration
File:
Download jcb_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr David Spencer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr David B Spencer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Dennis K Mclaughlin, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

2. Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization via Direct Collocation and Nonlinear Programming

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Open Access
Author:
Policelli, Michael J
Title:
Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization via Direct Collocation and Nonlinear Programming
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Direct
Collocation
Nonlinear Programming
Vertical
Takeoff
Landing
VTVL
moon
lunar
trajectory
optimization
spacecraft
File:
Download 2014_Policelli_M.S._Thesis_Final_Version__August_3_.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr David Spencer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

5. Optimal Earth Return Transfers from Lagrange Point Orbits Using Particle Swarm Optimization

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Open Access
Author:
Nayyar, Mollik
Title:
Optimal Earth Return Transfers from Lagrange Point Orbits Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Three body system
Lagrange points
manifolds
optimization
particle swarm
PSO
Dynamical Systems
Optimal Transfers
Astrodynamics
Lagrange Point Orbits
LPO
Lambert's Problem
File:
Download MollikNayyar_-_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr David Spencer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

6. Rigid Body Satellite Time-Optimal Attitude Control Using Inversion

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Open Access
Author:
Basu, Kaushik
Title:
Rigid Body Satellite Time-Optimal Attitude Control Using Inversion
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Time Optimal Control
Particle Swarm Optimization
Spacecraft Attitude Control
Pseudospectral Method
Rigid Body Dynamics
File:
Download Ko_Basu-Phd_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr Robert Melton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Robert Melton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr David Spencer, Committee Member
Dr Joseph Horn, Committee Member
Dr Joseph Cusumano, Outside Member