Stanford University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
 

 

Affiliates Meeting

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

PROGRAM OF THE 48th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY
IN AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS


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

 

 8:15

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

 8:30

Air Traffic Flow-Control with Strategic Airlines, Steve Waslander
Advisor, Prof. Claire Tomlin

 8:40 Decentralized Information Seeking Control for Mobile Sensor Networks, Gabriel Hoffmann
Advisor, Prof. Claire Tomlin
 8:50 Questions and Answers
 9:00 Aircraft Landing with Integrity using Terrain-Referenced Navigation, Alan Zorn
Advisor, Prof. Per Enge
 9:10 Investigating Ionospheric Scintillation Effects on GPS, Jiwon Seo
Advisor, Prof. Per Enge
 9:20
Questions and Answers
 9:30 Control of a Climbing Robot using Real-Time Convex Optimization, Teresa Miller
Advisor, Prof. Steve Rock
 9:40 Real-Time Underwater Visual Mosaicking and Navigation of the USS Macon, Kristof Richmond
Advisor, Prof. Steve Rock
 9:50 Questions and Answers
10:00 Multiscale Closed-Loop Estimation for Adaptive Optics, Laurent Lessard
Advisor, Prof. Sanjay Lall
10:10 Questions and Answers
10:20 Break (15 minutes)
10:35 High Fidelity Modeling and Controls Simulation for Gravity Probe B, Sara Smoot
Advisor, Prof. Matt West
10:45 Trapped Flux Mapping of the GP-B Gyroscopes, Michael Salomon
Advisor, Prof. Matt West
10:55 Questions and Answers
11:05 Mapping of Trapped Magnetic Fluxons on GP-B Gyros using a Pointwise Fluxon Model, Mike Dolphin
Advisor, Prof. Dan DeBra
11:15 Mass Center Determination for Gravitational Reference Sensors, John Conklin
Advisor, Prof. Dan DeBra
11:25 Moment of Inertia Measurement using a Five-Wire Torsion Pendulum and Optical Sensing, Aaron J. Swank
Advisor, Prof. Dan DeBra
11:35 Questions and Answers
11:45 Multiple Constellation GNSS RAIM for Aviation Approaches, Alexandru Ene
Advisor, Prof. David Powell
11:55 Questions and Answers
12:05 Lunch (Mitchell Earth Science Bldg. Patio)
 1:30 Nitrous Oxide Hybrid Rocket and Monopropellant Gas Generator, Kevin Lohner
Advisor, Prof. Brian J. Cantwell
 1:40 Questions and Answers
 1:50 Gust Soaring Techniques for Small UAV's, Chinmay Patel
Advisor, Prof. Ilan Kroo
 2:00 Aircraft Family Design using Decomposition-Based Methods, Brian Roth
Advisor, Prof. Ilan Kroo
 2:10 Questions and Answers
 2:20 Heat Transfer Prediction in an HP Weather Vane Cascade using Large Eddy Simulations, Rathakrishnan Bhaskaran
Advisor, Prof. Sanjiva Lele
 2:30 Role of Instability Waves in the Noise Radiation from High-Speed Jets, Jaiyoung Ryu
Advisor, Prof. Sanjiva Lele
 2:40 Questions and Answers
 2:50 Edge-Based Least Squares Methods for Compressible Flow Computations, Aaron Katz
Advisor, Prof. Antony Jameson
 3:00 New Approaches for Computational Aerodynamics, Georg May (Research Associate)
Prof. Antony Jameson
 3:10 Questions and Answers
 3:20 Break (15 minutes)
 3:35 Solar Sail Technology for Nanosats, Michael Souder
Advisor, Prof. James Cutler
 3:45

Current Projects of the Space and Systems Development Laboratory, Steven Pifko
Advisor, Prof. James Cutler

 3:55 Questions and Answers
 4:05 A Stretchable Sensor Network for Structural Health Monitoring Applications, Giulia Lanzara (Post-Doctoral Scholar)
Advisor, Prof. Fu-Kuo Chang
 4:15 The Development of a Spectral Shell Element for Structural Health Monitoring System Design, Sungwon Ha
Advisor, Prof. Fu-Kuo Chang
 4:25 In-Situ Technology for Monitoring Fatigue in Bolted Joints, Alexi Rakow
Advisor, Prof. Fu-Kuo Chang
 4:35 Questions and Answers
 4:45 Life Prediction for Bonded Joints, Qifeng Yu (Post-Doctoral Scholar)
Advisor, Prof. Stephen Tsai
 4:55 Questions and Answers
 5:05 Feedback from the Affiliates
ADJOURN  
6:00 Cocktails and Dinner at the Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel, 675 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA

 

 

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