Masters Students

MS Thesis In-Progress

  • Rakesh Yadav (AE)
  • Bibek Adhikari (ME)
  • Monalisa Karim (AE)
  • Brandon Ayala (AE FastTrack)

MS Thesis Completed

  1. Suguru Sato (AE) – Modeling and Simulation of Virtual Rigid Body Formation and their Applications using Autonomous Agents – December 2023
  2. Kamalkumar Mehta (AE) – Object Classification, Detection and State Estimation using YOLO v3 Deep Neural Network and Sensor Fusion of Stereo Camera and LiDAR – May 2021
  3. Metin Kus (AE) – Autonomous Carrier Landing of a Fixed-Wing UAV with Airborne Deck Motion Estimation December 2019
  4. Ethem Orhan (AE) – A Robust Controller Design for a Tailless UAV with Effective Control Allocation December 2019
  5. Abel M. Martinez (AE) – Onboard Payload Mass Estimation and Electric Propulsion Modeling for Multicopters with Application in Unmanned Aerial Systems May 2019
  6. Prabhjeet Singh Arora (ME) – Reachable Set Computation and Analysis of Perturbed Linear Systems December 2018
  7. Mitchel Thomas McDonald (AE) – Sensor Tasking for Satellite Tracking Utilizing Observability Measures December 2018
  8. Roopak Karulkar (ME) – Simulation, Control, and Testing of a Custom 5-DOF Robotic Manipulator System May 2018
  9. Karan V. Rao (ME) – Robot Motion Tracking Using Time-of-Flight and Structured Light Sensors for Indoor Navigation May 2018
  10. Matthew Shaver (AE) – Comparison of Nonlinear Filters for an Autonomous Lunar Mission using Existing Navigation Techniques May 2018
  11. Sachit Kaul (ME) – Region Based Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection and Recognition in ADAS application December 2017
  12. Denish Baman (ME) – Psuedo-Spectral Methods based Real-Time Optimal Path Planning for Unmanned Ground Vehicles December 2017
  13. V. N. V. Murali (ME) – Real-Time Minimum Jerk Optimal Trajectory Synthesis and Tracking for Ground Vehicle Applications December 2017
  14. Shashank Hariharapura (AE) – Autonomous Carrier Landing System for V/STOL Aircraft using L_1 Adaptive and Optimal Control. December 2015
  15. Ameya Godbole (ME) – Dynamics and Control of the Smart Maintenance and Inspection Robotic Free-Flyer (SMIRFF) . May 2015
  16. Pankaj Sarda (ME) – Control of a Teleoperating Robotic Arm Subject to Time Delays . December 2012
  17. Carlos Tule (AE) – Trajectory Generation and Constrained Control of Quadrotors . December 2012
  18. Alok Ashok Rege (AE) – CFD based Aerodynamic Modeling to Study Flight Dynamics of a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle . May 2012
  19. Ghassan Atmeh (AE) – Guidance and Control of Unmanned Airships for Waypoint Navigation in the Presence of Wind . May 2012
  20. Ifeolu Ogunleye (AE) – Online Reference Trajectory Modification in the Presence of Actuator Faults . December 2011
  21. Divya Bhatia (AE) – Constrained Dynamics Approach for Motion Synchronization and Consensus . December 2010
  22. Kartik Kiran Parikh (ME, jointly advised by Prof. Atilla Dogan) – CAE Tools for Modeling Inertia and Aerodynamic Properties of an R/C Airplane . Summer 2009
  23. Manju Nag (AE) – Trajectory Uncertainty Analysis for the Development of a Queuing Model for the National Airspace System . May 2010
  24. Borna Obradovic (AE) – Modeling and Simulation of the Flight Dynamics of Morphing Wing Aircraft . December 2009
  25. Brandon Shippey (AE) – Trajectory Optimization Using Collocation and Evolutionary Programming for Constrained Nonlinear Dynamical Systems , May 2008
  26. Abhijit Supekar (ME) – Design, Analysis and Development of a Morphable Wing Structure for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Performance Augmentation , May 2007
  27. Jonathan McDonald (AE) – Multi-Sensor Fusion based Control for Autonomous Operations: Rendezvous and Docking of Spacecraft , December 2006
  28. Praveen Muralidhar (EE) – Observer Synthesis for Linear/Nonlinear Dynamical Systems subject to Measurement Delays . December 2006
  29. Jolanta Matusewicz (AE) (Amelia Earhart Fellowship, 2008) – Uncertainty Characterization of Orbital Debris , August 2006
  30. Jeffery Ginn (AE) – Spacecraft Formation Flight: Analysis of the Perturbed Modified Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire Equations , August 2006
  31. Jennifer D. Goss (AE) – Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization of Hypersonic Inlet Performance subject to Magnetohydrodynamic Effects , May 2005.
  32. Rahul Rajvanshi (AE) – Optimal Strategies for Cooperative Air Traffic Conflict Detection and Resolution , December 2004.
  33. Sam James Welsh (AE) (Texas Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship recipient, 2004) – Adaptive Synchronization and Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems , December 2004.

MS (Non-Thesis)

  1. Andrew Swift (AE) – GPS INS Fusion Techniques . December 2015
  2. Aaron CAin (AE) – Adaptive Kalman Filter . December 2014
  3. Tyler Rainey (AE) – Loss-Of-Control Prediction And Fault Tolerant Control – An Adaptive Control Framework . May 2014
  4. Lee Christiansen (AE) – Multi-mode Kalman Filter Target Tracking Algorithm . May 2011
  5. Elizabeth Copelin (AE) – Using Doppler Effect with Phantom Track Generation . December 2010
  6. Ken McKinney (AE) – Optimal Thrust Vectoring Strategies , Fall 2005.