Search

Author:

Makovkin, Dmitriy

Title:

Optimal Persistent Monitoring Using Coordinated Soaring

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Persistent
monitoring
surveillance
thermalling
thermal
glider
soaring
MacCready
optimal
cruise
airspeed
aggregate
departure

File:

Download Dmitriy_Makovkin_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Walsh, Gregory Daniel

Title:

A PRELIMINARY ACOUSTIC INVESTIGATION OF A COAXIAL HELICOPTER IN HIGH-SPEED FLIGHT

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Acoustics
Coaxial Helicopter
Rotorcraft
Rotorcraft Acoustics
Helicopter

File:

Download Walsh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Geng, Junyi

Title:

A QUASI-POLAR LOCAL OCCUPANCY GRID APPROACH FOR VISION-BASED OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Small UAV
Obstacle avoidance
Occupancy gird
Quasi-polar frame
Monocular vision
Stereo vision

File:

Download Geng-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Yande

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF A CONTROLLER AND INDOOR FLIGHT TEST EXPERIMENT FOR RESEARCH ON QUADROTOR GUST RESPONSE

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

quadrotor
control

File:

Download Thesis_Yande_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member