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Author:

Bolden, Mark Patrick

Title:

PROBABILISTIC REAL-TIME DOMAIN AWARENESS LEVERAGING COMPUTER VISION AND COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

domain awareness
space domain
space debris
real-time
debris tracking
computer vision
computational intelligence
tactical object tracking
clustering
break-up event tracking
debris cloud tracking

File:

Download MarkBolden_-_Masters_Thesis_20180710.pdf

Committee Members:

David Spencer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Depenbusch, Nathan Thomas

Title:

Development and Field Testing of an Autonomous Soaring System

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

autonomous soaring
aerial robotics
thermal soaring
soaring
unmanned aerial vehicle
UAV

File:

Download Depenbusch-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

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

Author:

Premi, Amandeep

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADAPTIVE, MULTISCALE, NONLINEAR DISTURBANCE EQUATIONS SOLVER

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

NLDE
gust modeling
Transition
Pressure-velocity coupling
wavelets
multiscale
AMR
adaptive mesh refinement

File:

Download Thesis_apremi.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Mark D. Maughmer, Committee Member
Dr. Phillip J. Morris, Committee Member
Dr. Michael P. Kinzel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Michael P. Kinzel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amanda D Hanford, Outside Member

Author:

Lin, Sen

Title:

Stabilized Finite Element Methods And Applications

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

stabilized finite element method
variational multi-scale method

File:

Download SenLin_Master_Stab_FEM.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesco Costanzo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Padghan, Pranjali S

Title:

COMPLEX AERIAL FLIGHT UTILIZING MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Model Predictive Control
Quadcopter Dynamics and control

File:

Download ComplexAerialFlightUtilizingModelPredictiveControl_Thesis_Pranjali_Dec2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Landge, Ameya S

Title:

LIQUID WATER AND FLOW TURBULANCE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PENN STATE ICING WIND TUNNEL

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Icing wind tunnel calibration
Turbulence intensity
Flow Angularity
Cloud uniformity
Median Volume Diameter (MVD)
SAE ARP 5905

File:

Download M.S_Thesis_AmeyaLandge.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Singh, Ajay

Title:

External Load Stabilization Across the Flight Envelope Using an Active Cargo Hook

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Slung
External Load
Active Cargo Hook
LQR
Full-State Feedback
Reduced Order Model
Relative Cable Angle
Cable Angle Feedback
CONEX
Dryden
Bifurcation
Sling

File:

Download AjaySinghThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sodawala, Shivani H

Title:

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPULSION OF NON-IONIZED WATER MOLECULES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Electromagnetic Propulsion
Non-ionized Propellant
Water Propellant
Molecular dynamics simulations
Electric Propulsion

File:

Download ShivaniSodawala_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael M Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor