# overview
Expertise in analytical dynamics and games.

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4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

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4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

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4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

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4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

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4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

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4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

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4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Distinguished Achievement Award, The

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On Noether's Theorem and the Various Integrals of the Damped Linear Oscillator

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A state transition matrix and a complete set of motion constants for the euler-poinsot problem

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Convergence of Newton's method via Lyapunov analysis

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Cooperative manipulation of a flexible object by nonholonomically- constrained robots

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Using frequency-response functions to investigate string stability of cooperative control laws

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Paul Bunyan's brachistochrone and tautochrone

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A COMPARISON BETWEEN GIBBS AND HERRICK-GIBBS ORBIT DETERMINATION METHODS

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Minimum distance and optimal transformations on SO(N)

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Hardware development and measurements of solar Doppler shift for spacecraft orbit determination

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State estimation for constrained systems with redundant coordinates

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LINEAR SOLUTIONS TO SINGLE INSTANCE POSITION AND ATTITUDE ESTIMATION

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EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF TRAJECTORY GUIDANCE AND CONTROL FOR DIFFERENTIAL GAMES

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Hydrodynamic Module Coupling in the Offshore Wind Energy Simulation (OWENS) Tookit

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Decentralized control for a swarm of vehicles performing source localization

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THE ELEVENTH MOTION CONSTANT OF THE TWO-BODY PROBLEM

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Adaptive backstepping control based autopilot design for reentry vehicle

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Stability and control of collective systems

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Low cost satellite attitude hardware test bed

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Constraint-Monitoring Estimation Strategies for Dynamic Systems Subject to Equality Constraints

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Integrated estimation and control approach for vision aided inertial navigation

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The Hamel Representation: A Diagonalized Poincare Form

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The eleventh motion constant of the two-body problem

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Aeroelastic Modeling of Large Off-shore Vertical-axis Wind Turbines: Development of the Offshore Wind Energy Simulation Toolkit

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Direct linearization of continuous dynamical systems

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Vision-based tracking of non-cooperative space bodies to support active attitude control detection

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Optimal nonlinear feedback controller design using a waypoint scheme

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Square Root Partial-Update Kalman Filter

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Hamilton's Principle for Variable-Mass Systems

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Motion-constant rectification of modified Chebyshev Picard iteration

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Trajectory Planning for the Cooperative Manipulation of a Flexible Structure by Two Differentially-Driven Robots

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USING CARLEMAN EMBEDDING TO DISCOVER A SYSTEM'S MOTION CONSTANTS

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The Motion Constants of Linear Autonomous Dynamical Systems

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Impact of modeling approach on flutter predictions for very large wind turbine blade designs

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A nonlinearity measure for estimation systems

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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A robust nonlinear system identification algorithm using orthogonal polynomial network.

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Paul Bunyan's brachistochrone and tautochrone

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Optimal control for holonomic and Pfaffian nonholonomic systems

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Optimal Nonlinear Feedback Control Design Using a Waypoint Method

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Active attitude control detection of a noncooperative space body

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Nielsen, Tzenoff, and Other Equation Forms for Variable-Mass Systems

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Linear feedback control using quasi velocities

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Hamel coefficients for the rotational motion of a rigid body

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Implementing Feedback Control on a Novel Proximity Operations Simulation Platform

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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The Hamel representation: A diagonalized Poincare form

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Cooperative Control of Vehicle Swarms for Acoustic Target Localization by Energy Flows

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ESTIMATION STRATEGIES FOR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS WITH EQUALITY CONSTRAINTS

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SEISMIC SAFETY OF THE LIMA METROPOLITAN AREA

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On noether's theorem and the various integrals of the damped linear oscillator

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Adaptive play via estimation in uncertain nonzero-sum orbital pursuit evasion games

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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A framework for behavior learning in differential games

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Two-Impulse Reorientation of Spinning Axisymmetric Body: Single Axis Thrust

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Acoustic source localization and the echo problem

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Hamel coefficients for the rotational motion of a rigid body

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Direct Linearization via the Gibbs Function

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SEQUENTIAL SHAPE ESTIMATION OF AN ASTEROID USING VISION

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ATTITUDE ESTIMATION IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS

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Lagrangian view of the work-rate theorem

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Rate-free control of nonlinear wing section using pitch and plunge measurements only

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Modal dynamics and stability of large multi-megawatt deepwater offshore vertical-axis wind turbines: Initial support structure and rotor design impact studies

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LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS FOR POSITION AND ATTITUDE ESTIMATION USING THE CAYLEY ATTITUDE TECHNIQUE

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Investigating Time-Delay Effects for Multivehicle Formation Control

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Investigations on the Use of the Cayley Form for Feedback Controller Design

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Analytical Dynamics of Variable-Mass Systems

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Command shaping boom crane control system with nonlinear inputs

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Cooperative estimation in pursuit evasion games with bearing-only measurements

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Attitude-based classification of noncooperative bodies for motion characterization and active control detection

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Aeroelastic Modeling of Large Off-shore Vertical-axis Wind Turbines: Development of the Offshore Wind Energy Simulation Toolkit

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS FOR ORBITAL DEBRIS REMOVAL

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Stability and control of collective systems

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An energy preserving time integration method for gyric systems: Development of the offshore wind energy simulation toolkit

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Tool for Rapid Analysis of Monte Carlo Simulations

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Linear Feedback Control Using Quasi Velocities

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Development of spacecraft orbit determination and navigation using solar Doppler shift

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An Analysis of Merging and Spacing Operations with Continuous Descent Approaches

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Direct Linearization of Continuous and Hybrid Dynamical Systems

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Experimental verification of a command shaping boom crane control system

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Cayley kinematics and the Cayley form of dynamic equations

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SIX DEGREE OF FREEDOM MOTION EMULATION FOR PROXIMITY OPERATIONS AND CONTACT EXPERIMENTS

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A series solution method for the solution of the Hamilton Jacobi Isaacs equation and its applications to aerospace systems

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String stability analysis of selected speed control laws for interval management

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Application of the Cayley form to general spacecraft motion

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Cost-strategy recognition method for behavior learning: Two players learning simultaneously

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Incomplete Information Pursuit-Evasion Games with Uncertain Relative Dynamics

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Increasing runway capacity for continuous descent approaches through airborne precision spacing

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Cost-Strategy Recognition method for behavior learning: Two players learning simultaneously

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Analysis and demonstration: A proof-of-concept compass star tracker

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LOW COST SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE DETERMINATION FOR CUBESAT TYPE MISSIONS

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Improving the Robustness of Monocular Vision-Aided Navigation for Multirotors through Integrated Estimation and Guidance

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State transition matrix, motion constants, and ergodicity of the Euler-Poinsot problem

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Application of the Cayley form to general spacecraft motion

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Miniature mobile robots for plume tracking and source localization research

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OPTIMAL NONLINEAR FEEDBACK CONTROL FOR CONTROL CONSTRAINTS PROBLEMS WITH TERMINAL CONSTRAINTS: AN SDRE APPROACH

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Hamel coefficients for the rotational motion of a rigid body

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Multivehicle Spacing Along Smooth Curvilinear Paths

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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TWO IMPULSE REORIENTATION OF SPINNING AXISYMMETRIC BODY: SINGLE AXIS THRUST

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NUMERICALLY APPROXIMATED RECEDING HORIZON CONTROL FOR UNCERTAIN PURSUIT-EVASION GAMES

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Rate-free control of nonlinear wing section using pitch and plunge measurements only

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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The role of total least squares in the common attitude estimation problem

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A framework for behavior Learning in differential Games

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Kinematics of N-dimensional principal rotations

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Cooperative localization and tracking of time-dependent sources

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Stability and control of collective systems

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Path planning and control for planar multibody systems using internal controls

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Hamel coefficients for the rotational motion of an N-dimensional rigid body

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LASR A UNIVERSITY-BASED NATIONAL TESTBED FOR SPACE PROXIMITY OPERATIONS IN AN OPERATIONALLY RELEVANT ENVIRONMENT

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Optimal control of natural second order systems

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Development of spacecraft orbit determination and navigation using solar doppler shift

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Interior Parameters, Exterior Parameters, and a Cayley-Like Transform

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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A time-to-go control law for spacing vehicles at a point

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Optimal strategies in cooperative games with terminal payoff

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Automatic generation and integration of equations of motion by operator over-loading techniques

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Kane's equations in higher-dimensional spaces

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Increasing Student Engagement by Improving Social-cognitive Bias Education

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Directorate for Engineering - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Novel position, navigation, and timing and adaptive flight controls

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Office of the Secretary of Defense - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Aerospace Engineering; 3141 TAMU

# inTheNews[].label
Texas A&M Announces Members And Charge Of Commission On Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

# etdChairOf[].label
Parish III, Allen S. (2009-05). Pursuit and evasion games: semi-direct and cooperative control methods. Master's Thesis.

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Jarratt, Amber Sue (2016-08). A Parallelized Iterative Closest Point Algorithm for Attitude Estimation. Master's Thesis.

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Swanzy, Michael John (2007-04). Analysis and demonstration: a proof-of-concept compass star tracker. Master's Thesis.

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Beaver, Stefanie Rene' (2009-05). Input-ouput approximation for nonlinear structural dynamics. Master's Thesis.

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Parish, Julie Marie Jones (2012-10). Estimation Strategies for Constrained and Hybrid Dynamical Systems. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Castillo, Davis (2011-08). Euler-Bernoulli Implementation of Spherical Anemometers for High Wind Speed Calculations via Strain Gauges. Master's Thesis.

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Masher, Abhay Hiren (2016-12). Control of Active Pendulum for Contact Dynamics Simulation. Master's Thesis.

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Sinclair, Andrew James (2002-05). Generalization of rotational mechanics and application to aerospace systems. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Gesting, Peter Paul (2006-04). A photogrammetric on-orbit inspection for orbiter thermal protection system. Master's Thesis.

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Roorda, Timothy Isaac (2014-09). Optimal Path Generation for Monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Master's Thesis.

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Torres, Jonathan Farina (2014-05). Minimum Time/Minimum Fuel Control of an Axisymmetric Rigid Body. Master's Thesis.

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Johnson, Kristen Holmstrom (2010-10). Reduced-sensing Control Methods for Infinite-dimensional Systems. Master's Thesis.

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Aures-Cavalieri, Kurt D (2014-12). Incomplete Information Pursuit-Evasion Games with Applications to Spacecraft Rendezvous and Missile Defense. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Rashdan, Mouath (2014-01). The Duffing Oscillator And Linearization Techniques For Its Motion Constants. Master's Thesis.

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Brink, Kevin Michael (2012-02). Taking Man Out of the Loop: Methods to Reduce Human Involvement in Search and Surveillance Applications. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Savage, Elizabeth (2003-05). Cooperative control of autonomous underwater vehicles.. Master's Thesis.

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Weitz, Lesley Anne (2005-11). A fast-time study on increasing the capacity of continuous descent approaches through airborne precision spacing. Master's Thesis.

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Parish, Julie Marie Jones (2009-05). Direct linearization of continuous and hybrid dynamical systems. Master's Thesis.

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Sovinsky, Michael Charles (2007-04). Dynamical formulations and control of an automatic retargeting system. Master's Thesis.

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Bertinato, Christopher (2013-04). On the Topic of Motion Integrals. Master's Thesis.

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Lu, Zhenyu (2009-05). Cooperative optimal path planning for herding problems. Master's Thesis.

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Satak, Neha (2013-05). Behavior Learning in Differential Games and Reorientation Maneuvers. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Owens, Brian C (2013-11). Theoretical Developments and Practical Aspects of Dynamic Systems in Wind Energy Applications. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Janisch, Brian Scott (2016-07). Receding Horizon Control for Uncertain Pursuit-Evasion Games. Master's Thesis.

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Weitz, Lesley A. (2010-01). Decentralized, Cooperative Control of Multivehicle Systems: Design and Stability Analysis. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Aures-Cavalieri, Kurt Dale (2012-07). Implementing Feedback Control on a Novel Proximity Operations Simulation Platform. Master's Thesis.