Browsing School of Aerospace Engineering Publications & Presentations by Title
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Design of Support Systems for Dynamic Decision Making in Airline Operations
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2006-04)To date, there has been very little research conducted on the design of support systems for dynamic decisions environments, such as airline operations. The paper discusses the idea that the regulation of dynamic systems ... -
Designing for Security: A Cybersecurity Introduction for Aerospace Education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021)The world is becoming increasingly digital-- the integration of communications, sensors, and data collection is becoming more and more prevalent in the Aerospace sector. Furthermore, the Aerospace sector plays a large role ... -
Development and Evaluation of an Automated Path Planning Aid
(Georgia Institute of Technology.American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2012-11)Handling en route emergencies in modern transport aircraft through adequate teamwork between the pilot, the crew and the aircraft’s automation systems is an ongoing and active field of research. An automated path planning ... -
Development and Testing of a 3-D-Printed Cold Gas Thruster for an Interplanetary CubeSat
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-03)This paper describes the development and testing of a cold gas attitude control thruster produced for the BioSentinel spacecraft, a CubeSat that will operate beyond Earth orbit. The thruster will reduce the spacecraft ... -
Event-Driven Network Model for Space Mission Optimization with High-Thrust and Low-Thrust Spacecraft
(2020-03)Numerous high-thrust and low-thrust space propulsion technologies have been developed in the recent years with the goal of expanding space exploration capabilities; however, designing and optimizing a multi-mission campaign ... -
Everything I Needed to be Successful I Learned in Kindergarten
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Flexibility Management for Space Logistics via Decision Rules
(2021-04)This paper develops a flexibility management framework for space logistics mission planning under uncertainty through decision rules and multistage stochastic programming. It aims to add built-in flexibility to space ... -
Flight Testing of Nap of-the-Earth Unmanned Helicopter Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-05)This paper describes recent results from a partnership between the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop, improve, and flight test a sensor, guidance, navigation, control, ... -
Framework for Modeling and Optimization of On-Orbit Servicing Operations under Demand Uncertainties
(2021-06)This paper develops a framework that models and optimizes the operations of complex on-orbit servicing infrastructures involving one or more servicers and orbital depots to provide multiple types of services to a fleet of ... -
A full scale atmospheric flight experimental research environment for the Mars helicopter
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-09-09)This paper proposes to test a full-accuracy ight test experiment for the Mars helicopter through an atmospheric reduced-g flight housing a vacuum chamber. -
A full scale atmospheric flight experimental research environment for Titan exploration devices
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-12)We propose to develop a full-accuracy flight test environment for Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. The experiment would use reduced-g atmospheric flights with a standard aircraft, with appropriate equipment, including a ... -
Georgia Tech Mars Exploration UAV Collaborative System: A Conceptual Design and Systems Engineering Study
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-12-14)Exploration of Mars has been one of the focus of the aerospace community for its similarity with the Earth. The characteristics of Mars make possible an aerial flight even with the low pressure in its atmosphere. In an age ... -
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Framework for Stochastic Spaceflight Campaign Design
(2021-12)This paper develops a hierarchical reinforcement learning architecture for multimission spaceflight campaign design under uncertainty, including vehicle design, infrastructure deployment planning, and space transportation ... -
High Performance Nap-of-the-Earth Unmanned Helicopter Flight
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011)This paper describes recent results from a partnership between the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop, improve, and flight test a sensor, guidance, navigation, control, and ... -
Integrated In-Situ Resource Utilization System Design and Logistics for Mars Exploration
(2020-05)This paper develops an interdisciplinary space architecture optimization framework to analyze the tradeoff on in-situ resource utilization options, identify technology gaps, evaluate the benefits of in-situ resource ... -
Markov Modeling of Component Fault Growth Over A Derived Domain of Feasible Output Control Effort Modifications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-08)This paper introduces a novel Markov process formulation of stochastic fault growth modeling, in order to facilitate the development and analysis of prognostics-based control adaptation. A metric representing the relative ... -
Modeling Cockpit Interface Usage During Lunar Landing Redesignation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009)Fulfilling NASA's space exploration objectives requires precision landing to reach lunar sites of interest. During the approach and landing stages, a landing point redesignation (LPR) display will provide information to ... -
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Approach to Integrated Space Mission Planning and Spacecraft Design
(AIAA, 2022)Space mission planning and spacecraft design are tightly coupled and need to be considered together for optimal performance; however, this integrated optimization problem results in a large-scale mixed-integer nonlinear ... -
Multifidelity Space Mission Planning and Infrastructure Design Framework for Space Resource Logistics
(2021-03)To build a sustainable space transportation system for human space exploration, the design and deployment of space infrastructure, such as in-situ resource utilization plants, in-orbit propellant depots, and on-orbit ...