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Browsing Aeronautics and Astronautics - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Issue Date
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Matching high ambitions with scarce resources is one of the primary challenges of the aerospace industry, on par with the technical challenges of developing new technology. The challenge is further complicated in space ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Numerical simulations of incompressible viscous flows in realistic configurations are increasingly important in many scientific and engineering fields. In Aeronautics, for instance, relatively cheap numerical computations ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Teams of autonomous mobile robotic agents will play an important role in the future of robotics. Efficient coordination of these agents within large, cooperative teams is an important characteristic of any system utilizing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis describes the use of the power balance method for performance estimation of aircraft configurations. In this method, mechanical power production and mechanical power consumption of the aircraft are balanced, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)System architecting is concerned with exploring the tradespace of early, high-level, system design decisions with a holistic, value-centric view. In the last few years, several tools and methods have been developed to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Robots can act as proxies for human operators in environments where a human operator is not present or cannot directly perform a task, such as in dangerous or remote situations. Teleoperation is a common interface for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)As demand for air travel increases over the years and many busy airports operate close to their capacity limits, congestion at some airports on any given day can quickly spread throughout the National Aviation System (NAS). ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)While creating intelligent agents who can solve stochastic sequential decision making problems through interacting with the environment is the promise of Reinforcement Learning (RL), scaling existing RL methods to realistic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In this thesis, we argue that autonomous robots operating in hostile and uncertain environments can improve robustness by computing and reasoning explicitly about risk. Autonomous robots with a keen sensitivity to risk can ...
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Modeling and sensitivity analysis of aircraft geometry for multidisciplinary optimization problems (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)A new geometry management paradigm for aircraft design utilizes Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems as the source for consistent geometry models across design phases and analysis tools. Yet various challenges inhibit the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Spacecraft are complex systems that involve many subsystems and multiple relationships among them. The design of a spacecraft is an evolutionary process that starts from requirements and evolves over time. During this ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Robotic planetary surface exploration, which has greatly benefited humankind's scientific knowledge of the solar system, has to date been conducted by sedentary landers or by slow, terrain-limited rovers. However, there ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Improving the autonomy, efficiency, and reliability of partial differential equation (PDE) solvers has become increasingly important as powerful computers enable engineers to address modern computational challenges that ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Optimization of multidisciplinary systems is critical as slight performance improvements can provide significant benefits over the system's life. However, optimization of multidisciplinary systems is often plagued by ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Nanoengineered hierarchal fiber architectures are promising approaches towards improving the inter- and intralaminar mechanical properties (e.g., toughness and strength) and non-mechanical properties of advanced fiber-reinforced ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)There is an increasing need for robust optimal plan execution for multi-agent systems in uncertain environments, while guaranteeing an acceptable probability of success. For example, a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Light pulse atom interferometry with cold atoms is a promising inertial sensing technology for high accuracy navigation. At present, laboratory atom interferometers match or surpass state of the art mechanical and optical ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Aerodynamic flows involve features with a wide range of spatial and temporal scales which need to be resolved in order to accurately predict desired engineering quantities. While computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The overarching goals of this thesis are to quantify the efficiency loss due to market participant strategic behavior, and to design proper pricing mechanisms that reduce the efficiency loss. The concept of efficiency loss ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)A low power plasma thruster, initially dubbed the Diverging Cusped-Field Hall Thruster, was built at MIT in 2007 with the aim of providing an alternative to comparably sized conventional Hall thrusters able to provide ...
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