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DESIGN, TESTING, AND ANALYSIS OF SELF-TOSS HOPPING MANEUVERS OF ASTROBEE AT NPS AND NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Robotic hopping is a novel approach to microgravity mobility for a small spacecraft to use a robotic arm manipulator to toss a vehicle toward a destination. The Spacecraft Robotics Laboratory (SRL) at the Naval Postgraduate ...
EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES FOR OBTAINING A TEMPORALLY AND SPATIALLY AVERAGED REPRESENTATIVE STATIC PRESSURE FOR UNSTEADY AND NON-UNIFORM COMBUSTOR CONDITIONS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-06)
Detonation-based combustors are an attractive alternative to traditional deflagration-based combustors for airbreathing propulsion systems. Rotating Detonation Engines (RDEs) are a type of detonation-based combustion system ...
REDUCTION EXPANSION SYNTHESIS OF NICKEL-BASED CERMETS AND POTENTIAL MILITARY AND AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
This thesis demonstrated that the use of the Reduction Expansion Synthesis manufacturing process can be applied to cermet or metal matrix composite materials. This could potentially have a significant impact in the aerospace ...
COMPENSATION OF TARGET IMAGE ABERRATIONS FOR MILITARY SYSTEMS USING MACHINE LEARNING
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-06)
High energy laser (HEL) systems are susceptible to atmospheric turbulence when focusing on targets down range. Current HEL systems use wavefront sensors and complex adaptive optics systems to compensate for these aberrations. ...
DESIGN OF A PARALLEL EDUCATIONAL SATELLITE GROUND STATION
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-06)
The Mobile CubeSat Command and Control (MC3) ground station network provides communications infrastructure for small satellites developed by U.S. government organizations, contractors, and educational institutions. As the ...
ENERGY OPTIMAL TRAJECTORY PLANNING OF MULTICOPTER UAVS IN SUPPORT OF MARINE CORPS EXPEDITIONARY ADVANCED BASE OPERATIONS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-06)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are becoming increasingly important in military operations, and tactical resupply for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) is one such example of an area that is calling for the benefits ...
PLANAR ELECTROMECHANICAL ROBOTIC MANIPULATION SYSTEM TO ENABLE UNMANNED SPACECRAFT SERVICING (PERSEUS)
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-06)
Rising numbers of aging spacecraft and new missions demand the development of novel approaches to perform various tasks in orbit. Complex servicing and assembly missions have been successfully completed by human astronauts ...
TARGET POSE ESTIMATION VIA DEEP LEARNING FOR MILITARY SYSTEMS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-06)
Target pose estimation and aimpoint selection is crucial in direct energy weapon systems, as it allows the system to point to a specific and strategic area of the target. However, it is a challenging task because a dedicated ...
IMPACT OF INJECTOR FABRICATION TECHNIQUE ON THE INJECTION AND ATOMIZATION OF JP-10 FOR HIGH-SPEED AERO-PROPULSION SYSTEMS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-09)
Effective liquid fuel injection on future high-speed aero-propulsion systems is a critical requirement for high performance in volume-limited flight vehicles. The use of emerging manufacturing methods can potentially deliver ...
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