First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual John,Junkins,Distinguished Professor,"Guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) of aerospace vehicles. Dynamical systems. Celestial Mechanics/Astrodynamics. Optimization. Optimal control of nonlinear dynamical system. Computational methods. Sensors, sensor design, sensor fusion. Autonomous systems. Space robotics. Space proximity GNC. Experimental methods for space proximity GNC. Optimal estimation. Space Situational Awareness. Space mission design optimization.","Director, Hagler Institute for Advanced STudy",Division of Research,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb4c27c3f