Reports and Technical Reports
Navy Expeditionary Readiness Cost Modeling
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-09); NPS-DDM-22-003
Military services estimate the budget for activities associated with operational readiness using mathematical models. OPNAV N834 (Expeditionary Readiness)
presently uses an N81 accredited Capability Costing Model (CCM) ...
Navy Force Structure Review Strategic Risk Workshop and Technical Review
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-09); NPS-OR-22-005
The OPNAV Lead for the 2022-2023 Navy Force Structure Review requested an interdisciplinary NPS team conduct an independent strategic risk and
technical risk of the current programmed force structure and three alternatives. ...
Prototyping and Testing a Miniaturized Floating Spacecraft Simulator
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-08); NPS-SP-22-009
Floating spacecraft simulators are robotic vehicles which imitate satellite movement in space. The use of floating spacecraft simulators permits experimental
validation of Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) algorithms ...
Next Generation of CubeSat Orbital Mesh Networking Assets, Challenges and Architectures - LORA Replication with Software Defined Radios
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-08); NPS-SP-22-007
!The goal of this research was to replicate a Long Range (Lo Ra) signal that can be received and read by a low cost commercially available receiver based on a
Semtech chip. LoRa is the physical (PHY) layer of Long Range ...
Lasercommunication Receive Terminal at Naval Postgraduate School
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-08); NPS-SP-22-006
Traditional radio frequency communication is nearing the edge of its capabilities in transmittable data per second. For this and other reasons free space optical
communication is increasingly becoming important. The Space ...
Improving High Altitude Balloon Payload Recovery by Developing an Autonomous Parafoil Steering System
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-08); NPS-SP-22-005
This thesis focuses on developing an autonomous parafoil steering system deployed from a near-space platform for improving recovery capabilities of attached payloads. The re search presented builds on previous work on the ...
False Data Injection of a Robotic Navigation System: Concepts and Simulations
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-08); NPS-SP-22-010
Today, robotic vehicles (RV) play an essential role in both modern industry and the military. More and more RVs become autonomously operated and are prone to
cyber-attacks of their embedded control systems. These attacks ...
Designing and testing a 3D-printed specimen for combined loading
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-07); NPS-SP-22-003
Failure prediction is of essential importance for everything built in today’s world. Components are fabricated lighter and more specific in shape in order to fulfil their
purpose. For reasons both of safety and stability, ...
MEPS Workload Balance and Capacity Rationalization
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-05-10); NPS-DDM-22-002
The U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command (USMEPCOM) is charged with screening all applicants for enlistment into the
U.S. Armed Forces according to the qualification standards of each of the four services. These ...
Conceptual Design of an Open-Source Hardware Simplified Floating Spacecraft Simulator
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-04); NPS-SP-22-001
This thesis covers parts of the development of a new open-source hardware Floating Spacecraft Simulator for teaching and research purposes, named MyDAS,
standing for Mini Dynamic Autonomous Spacecraft Simulator. A Floating ...