Browsing by Department "Aerospace Engineering"
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(2013-08-01)Most spacecraft are designed to be maneuvered to achieve pointing goals. This is generally accomplished by designing a three-axis control system. This work explores new maneuver strategies when only two control inputs are ...
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(2012-07-16)A fundamental problem in spacecraft proximity operations is the determination of the 6 degree of freedom relative navigation solution between the observer reference frame and a reference frame tied to a proximal body. For ...
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(2022-07-20)The popularity of Cognitive Assistants, defined as intelligent AI agents that enhance human capabilities and interact through natural language, has surged in the last decade. Recent advances in natural language understanding ...
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(1979)This paper describes the results of the initial phase of a program being conducted to develop systems and procedures to maximize ballast and lifting gas usage on board an atmospheric research balloon. Computer programs, ...
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(2022-01-11)Recent successes in the field of robot learning have combined reinforcement learning algorithms and deep neural networks. Yet, reinforcement learning has not been widely applied to robotics and real world scenarios. This ...
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(2022-07-27)Can the mathematical framework developed for constitutive nonlinearities be extended to arbitrary dimensions and capture the structural relationship between forces and displacements? In this work, the mathematics developed ...
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(2021-12-02)This research is aimed at making contributions in three fundamental problems in systems and control. The problems are broadly known as system identification, optimal simulation and data-based control. The system identification ...
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(2020-04-16)Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis is a common tool used to analyze aeroelastic problems. The traditional FSI scheme couples independent structure and fluid solvers in space and time. For many aerospace applications ...
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(1984)A steady state transonic airfoil analysis code has been modified to include the presence of a vortex near the airfoil. The objective was to provide quasi-steady analysis of blade/vortex interaction for studying or predicting ...
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(1993)A 4.05% model of the NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter was tested (Test 9238) at the Texas A&M University Low Speed Wind Tunnel (TAMU-LSWT) at various heights above the wind tunnel floor, in order to simulate the ground effect ...
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(2018-05-08)In 1959, Dirk Brouwer pioneered the use of the Hamiltonian perturbation methods for constructing artificial satellite theories with effects due to nonspherical gravitational perturbations included. His solution specifically ...
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(2012-02-14)Parametric uncertainty is one of many possible causes of divergence for the Kalman filter. Frequently, state estimation errors caused by imperfect model parameters are reduced by including the uncertain parameters as states ...
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Acoustics in the Klebanoff-Saric Wind Tunnel: Background Identification, Forcing, and Active Control (2012-07-16)Low disturbance wind tunnels, such as the Klebanoff–Saric Wind Tunnel (KSWT), offer an ideal environment to study boundary layer transition. In particular, the leading-edge receptivity of sound can be measured by creating ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)The development of a leading edge propeller blade reconfiguration system using Shape Memory Allow (SMA) muscles is presented. This work describes the design and testing of a leading edge flap, which is used to alter the ...
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(2009-05-15)An experimental investigation was performed to understand the development and suppression of the secondary flow structures within a compact, serpentine jet engine inlet duct. By employing a variety of flow diagnostic ...
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(2013-04-25)Low Earth Orbit is over-cluttered with rogue objects that threaten existing technological assets and interfere with allocating new ones. Traditional satellite missions are not efficient enough to collect an appreciable ...
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Actuation Fatigue Characterization Methods and Lifetime Predictions of Shape Memory Alloy Actuators (2017-05-05)Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) are a class of intermetallic alloys that possess the ability to repeatedly sustain large amounts of deformation and recover a designed geometry through a thermal-induced, diffusionless, solid-to-solid ...
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(2012-07-16)A testing method was developed to cycle quickly and repeatably Ni60Ti40 (wt. %) SMA specimens through temperature-induced transformation while under constant stress until failure. Previous works have shown fatigue cracks ...
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(2020-01-25)Collisions between Earth orbiting satellites and debris have been a topic of growing concern among satellite operators and governments for many years. At the heart of preventing collisions, which have been observed to have ...
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(2009-05-15)The new vision for space exploration will focus on sending humans to the moon and eventually to Mars. This endeavor presents new challenges that are critically different from the past experience with robotic missions to ...