Stanford University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
 

 

Affiliates Meeting

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

PROGRAM OF THE 46th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY
IN AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS


W. F. Durand Building, Hoff Conference Room (Room 450)


Tuesday, April 26, 2005

 8:15

Welcome and Department Overview
      Prof. Brian Cantwell, Department Chair
      Prof. Steve Rock, Director, Affiliates Program

 8:30

Optimal Detection in Distributed Sensor Systems, Randy Cogill
Advisor, Prof. Sanjay Lall

 8:40 Optimization of Energy Limited Wireless Networks, Ritesh Madan
Advisor, Prof. Sanjay Lall
 8:50 Stability of Time-Delay Systems, Matthew Peet
Advisor, Prof. Sanjay Lall
 9:00 Hierarchical Robust Controller Synthesis Using Positivstellensatz, Been-Der Chen
Advisor, Prof. Sanjay Lall
 9:10 Questions and Answers
 9:20
Incorporating Airline Preferences into Air Traffic Flow Control, Steven Waslander
Advisor, Prof. Claire Tomlin
 9:30 Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control (STARMAC), Gabriel Hoffman
Advisor, Prof. Claire Tomlin
 9:40 Questions and Answers
 9:50 Break (15 minutes)
10:05 Control of Climbing Robots, Teresa Miller
Advisor, Prof. Steve Rock
10:15 Robotic Tracking and Observation of Ocean Animals, Aaron Plotnik
Advisor, Prof. Steve Rock
10:25 Questions and Answers
10:35 Adaptive Array Processing for GPS Interference Rejection, David Lorenzo
Advisor, Prof. Per Enge
10:45 A Comprehensive Ionosphere Storm Data Analysis Method to Support LAAS Threat Model Development, Di Qiu
Advisor, Prof. Per Enge
10:55 Questions and Answers
11:05 WAAS as a Flight Inspection Truth System, Euiho Kim
Advisor, David Powell
11:15 Questions and Answers
11:25 Prognostic Embedded Design of Composite Structures, Johannes Markmiller
Advisor, Prof. Fu-Kuo Chang
11:35 A Computational Tool for the Design of Structures with Built-In Piezoelectric-Based Sensor Networks, Jinkyu Yang
Advisor, Prof. Fu-Kuo Chang
11:45 Questions and Answers
11:55 Lunch (Patio - Mitchell Building)
 1:15 Predicting the Behavior of Graphite/Epoxy Laminates under Hydrothermal Loads, Sébastien Didierjean
Advisor, Prof. Steve Tsai
 1:25 Questions and Answers
 1:35 Overview of Miniature Trailing-Edge Effector Research Program, Stefan Bieniawski
Advisor, Prof. Ilan Kroo
 1:45 Using Wind Turbulence to Enhance UAV Performance, Chinmay Patel
Advisor, Prof. Ilan Kroo
 1:55 Questions and Answers
 2:05 Large-Eddy Simulation of Film-Cooling on a Flat-Plate Geometry, Ioulia Iourokina
Advisor, Prof. Sanjiva Lele
 2:15 Questions and Answers
 2:25 Time Spectral Method for Periodic Unsteady Computation, Arathi Gopinath
Advisor, Prof. Antony Jameson
 2:35 Exploring the Limits of Transonic Shock-Free Airfoil Design, Michael Harbeck
Advisor, Prof. Antony Jameson
 2:45 High-Order Accurate Methods for Conservation Laws Using Continuum and Statistical Mechanics, Georg May
Advisor, Prof. Antony Jameson
 2:55 Flow Control by Feedback, Kathik Palaniappan
Advisor, Prof. Antony Jameson
 3:05 Questions and Answers
 3:15 An Overview of the DARPA Helicopter Quieting Program, Prof. Juan Alonso
 3:25 Two-Level Multi-Fidelity Design Optimization Studies for Supersonic Jets, Seongim Choi
Advisor, Prof. Juan Alonso
 3:35

Investigation of Turbo Machines at High and Low RPM, Ki Hwan Lee
Advisor, Prof. Juan Alonso

 3:45 Questions and Answers
 3:55 Break (15 minutes)
 4:05 KatySat - A New Application of the CubeSat for K-12 Education, Benjamin Yuan
Advisor, Prof. Robert Twiggs
 4:15 Questions and Answers
 4:25 Sub-Micro Level Center of Mass Determination for the LISA Gravitational Reference Sensor (GRS), John Conklin
Advisor, Prof. Dan DeBra
 4:35 Mass Attraction Determination for Drag-Free References, Aaron Swank
Advisor, Prof. Dan DeBra
 4:45 Charge Control on Drag-Free References: From the GP-B Rotors to the LISA GRS, Brett Allard
Advisor, Prof. Dan DeBra
 4:55 Multi-DOF Isolation and Alignment with Quiet Hydraulic Actuators, Corwin Hardham
Advisor, Prof. Dan DeBra
 5:05 Questions and Answers
 5:10 Feedback from Affiliates
ADJOURN  
6:00 Cocktails and Dinner at the Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel, 675 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA

 

 

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