Researchpalooza 2020 - Friday, Feb. 7
Lunch Lecture Keynote - 12:00pm
“Inertial+, the Once and Future Navigation System”
Thomas Professor, Ohio University School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
PI with the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Center
Abstract: Since their invention shortly after World War II, inertial navigation systems have proven to be indispensable in the aerospace industry. They are immune to jamming and provide position, velocity and attitude with low noise, high data rates and low data latencies. Since the 1960s, the long-term drift inherent in any inertial system has typically been corrected through the integration of an external aiding source via an extended Kalman filter. Aiding sources have varied over the decades and, although GNSS is currently the most popular choice, the future of navigation can be characterized simply as “inertial-plus.” Plus what? Whatever the best aiding source happens to be. Vision? Electro-optics? LADAR? Signals-of-opportunity? Maybe all of the above.
In this presentation we will review the key operating principles of inertial navigation and will highlight the major error characteristics. The primary inertial-aiding design architectures will then be discussed along with important features such as state-observability. Finally, recent research in the area of gravity model error characterization in high-integrity aided-inertial systems will be presented.
Bio: Michael Braasch holds the Thomas Professorship in the Ohio University School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and is a Principal Investigator with the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Center. He has been performing navigation system research since 1985 and has served as a technical advisor both to the U.S. FAA and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Mike is internationally recognized for his work in characterizing the effects of GPS multipath and has performed fundamental research in the use of phased arrays for differential GPS ground reference stations.
In addition, his research in the application of phased-array techniques to differential GPS ground reference stations laid the foundation for the development of the first generation prototype antennas for the FAA’s Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS).
In the mid 1990s, Mike led the Ohio University research group that pioneered the GPS software-defined receiver. He has also conducted research in the design, development and flight-testing of peripheral vision display systems for general aviation aircraft. He is the associate editor for navigation for the IEEE AESS SYSTEMS magazine, and since 2017 has served as the founding Chair of the AESS Navigation Systems Panel.
presents:
The 6th Annual
Researchpalooza
Friday, Feb. 7
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
AERO 120
Learn about research being done by Smead Aerospace students and faculty through 10-minute talks, emceed by our Smead Scholars.
12:00pm Lunch Lecture Keynote:
Prof. Mike Braasch from the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Center
Reception at 4:30 p.m.
Free breakfast, lunch, snacks for attendees
Top three student presenters will receive: $25 Amazon Gift cards
Questions? Lewis.Groswald@colorado.edu
Presentation Schedule Below
| Time | Presenter Name | Focus Area | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Ken Oguri | ASN | Stochastic Optimal Control for Spacecraft Autonomous Guidance around Small Bodies |
| 9:10 - 9:20 | Ian Elliott | ASN | Apprenticeship Learning for Maneuver Design in Multi-Body Systems |
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Mark Moretto | ASN | Dynamics of Large Grains in the Coma of an Active Comet |
| 9:30 - 9:40 | Thomas Smith | ASN | Summarizing Families of Periodic Orbits via Clustering |
| 9:40 - 9:50 | Ofer Dagan | AUT | "Let's give them something to talk about" - A decentralized approach for multi-agent data fusion |
| 9:50 - 10:00 | Hermann Kaptui Sipowa | ASN | Distributed Unscented-Information Kalman Filter (UIKF) for Cooperative Localization in Spacecraft Formation Flying |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Christopher Sullivan | ASN | Using Reinforcement Learning to Design a Low-Thrust Approach to a Periodic Orbit |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Katherine Glasheen | AUT | Path Planning for Urban Delivery Drones - Bringing Cloud Robotics to the Clouds |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Zachary Sunberg | AUT | Agreeing on a Solution: Equilibrium Alignment in General Sum Differential Games |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Sophie Zaccarine | BioAstro | Intelligent Infusion of Smart Technologies into a Space Habitat |
| 10:40 - 10:50 | Morteza Lahijanian | AUT | Explainable Multi Agent Path Finding |
| 10:50 - 11:00 | Spencer Dansereau | FSM | Hypersonic Composites: Nano-Layer Additive Manufacturing |
| 11:00 - 11:10 | Alexandre Cortiella | FSM | Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems |
| 11:10 - 11:20 | Valerie Bernstein | RSESS | Sources of Uncertainty in Atmospheric Drag: The Drag Coefficient |
| 11:20 - 11:30 | Mitchell Shen | RSESS | How do we IMPACT on Space and Planetary Science? In Dust we Trust. |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Anne Bennett | ASN | Idenitfying Non-Catastrophic Debris Strikes in Spacecraft Telemetry |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Andrew Mills | AUT | Autonomous Graph Exploration in Underground Environments |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Break | ||
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch Keynote Lecture: | Talk Title: "Inertial+, the Once and Future Navigation System" | |
| 1:00 - 1:45 | Break | ||
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Alberto Roper Pol | FSM | Detection of the early-universe gravitational wave background with LISA |
| 2:00 - 2:10 | CK Venigalla | ASN | Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization for Maximum Missed Thrust Margin |
| 2:10 - 2:20 | Dasha Gloutak | FSM | Experimental Measurements of a Finite NACA 0015 Wing in an Unsteady Flow as Compared to Theory |
| 2:20 - 2:30 | Aviral Prakash | FSM | Towards a data-driven sub-grid scale stress model |
| 2:30 - 2:40 | Jesse Greaves | ASN | Identifying and Estimating Stochastic Events in Cislunar Space |
| 2:40 - 2:50 | Álvaro Romero-Calvo | ASN | Prospects and challenges for magnetic propellant positioning in zero-gravity |
| 2:50 - 3:00 | Stefano Bonasera | ASN | Applications of Clustering to Higher-Dimensional Poincaré Maps in Multi-Body Systems |
| 3:00 - 3:10 | Xiangyu Li | ASN | Dynamics on the surface of 2016 HO3 |
| 3:10 - 3:20 | Natasha Camargo | ASN | FEM representations of asteroid gravity fields |
| 3:20 - 3:30 | Break | ||
| 3:30 - 3:40 | Nicholas Nell | RSESS | The assembly, calibration, and laboratory performance of the SISTINE rocket payload: demonstrating ultraviolet hardware for large UV/optical observatories |
| 3:40 - 3:50 | Matthew Zola | ASN | MAXWELL: A High-Rate & CDMA CubeSat Communication Demo |
| 3:50 - 4:00 | Alex Meyer | ASN | Frozen Relative Orbits in the Presence of SRP |
| 4:00 - 4:10 | Alex Davis | ASN | A Covariance Study for Gravity Estimation of Binary Asteroids |
| 4:10 - 4:30 | Dan Scheeres | ASN | NASA's Janus Mission: A SIMPLEx mission to 2 binary asteroids |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Closing Reception in Aerospace Building Lobby |