Aerospace Lecturer Profile :
Jason Mitchell
Aerospace Engineering Program
Lecturer
jason-umd@maiar.org
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati.
Dissertation:
A Simplified Variation of Parameters Solution for the Motion of an
Arbitrarily Torqued Mass Asymmetric Rigid Body.
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati.
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati.
Research interests
Astrodynamics, spacecraft attitudinal dynamics & control, numerical methods, dynamical systems, cooperative decision & control of UAVs, real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulation.Instructor
ENAE 602 Instructor: Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control (3) Prerequisites: ENAE 404 and ENAE 432. Rigid body rotational dynamics of spacecraft; forced and unforced motion, torques produced by the orbital environment; orbit/attitude coupling; gas jet, momentum wheel, and magnetic torque actuators. Elementary feedback attitude regulators and algorithms for linear and nonlinear attitude tracking.Presentations
Microsatellite Formation Dynamics & Control, Distributed Space Systems Group, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, November, 2003.
Coordinated/Cooperative Control of Space & Air Vehicles, Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, February, 2003.
Dynamics & Control of Microsatellite Formations, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, February, 2003.
Microsatellite Formation Control: Maintaining Periodic Trajectories with the First-Order Nonlinear Hill's Equations, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Vehicles Directorate, June, 2002.
Inquisitive Women Summer Camp representing Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati 1998, 1999.
Formulating Women Summer Camp representing Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati 1998, 1999.
Mathematical Awareness Week, Invited Speaker, The Northern Kentucky University, Mathematics Dept., 1998.
Publications
"GPS Navigation for the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale Mission," (w/ B.A. Bamford, C.M. Southward, P.J. Baldwin, L.B. Winternitz, G.W. Heckler, R. Kurichh), ION GNSS Conference, September, 2009. (submitted)
"Characterization of a Radio Frequency Space Environment Path Emulator for Evaluating Spacecraft Ranging Hardware," (w/ P.J. Baldwin, B.W. Barbee, R. Kurichh, R.J. Luquette), AIAA Guidance, Navigation, & Control Conference, August, 2008.
"Expanding Hardware-in-the-Loop Formation Navigation and Control with Radio Frequency Crosslink Ranging," (w/ R.J. Luquette), International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics, September, 2007.
"Characterization of a Prototype Radio Frequency Space Environment Path Emulator for Evaluating Spacecraft Ranging Hardware," (w/ P.J. Baldwin, R. Kurichh, B.J. Naasz, R.J. Luquette), AIAA Guidance, Navigation, & Control Conference, August, 2007.
"A Message Oriented Middleware for a Soft Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Spacecraft Formation Flying Testbed," (w/ D.M. Zakar, R.D. Burns, R.J. Luquette), AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, August, 2006.
"Recent Developments in Hardware-in-the-Loop Formation Navigation and Control," (w/ R.J. Luquette), Proceedings of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Flight Mechanics Symposium, 2005.
"Introduction to the MultiUAV2 Simulation and Its Application to Cooperative Control Research," (w/ S.J. Rasmussen, P.R. Chandler, C.J. Schumacher, A.L. Smith), Proceedings of the American Controls Conference, 2005.
"Effects of Target Arrival Rate on Mission Performance of Cooperatively Controlled UAVs with Communication Constraints," (w/ S.J. Rasmussen, A.G. Sparks), IEEE Conference on Decision & Control, December, 2004. (invited paper)
"State-Space Search for Improved Autonomous UAVs Assignment Algorithm," (w/ S.J. Rasmussen, T. Shima, A.G. Sparks, P.R. Chandler), IEEE Conference on Decision & Control, December, 2004. (invited paper)
"Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication Effects on the Cooperative Control of Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles," (w/ S.J. Rasmussen, J.D. Redding, P.R. Chandler), AIAA Guidance, Navigation, & Control Conference, August, 2004.
"Simulation Framework for Moving Cooperative Control Algorithms from Conception to Assessment," (w/ S.J. Rasmussen, K.J. Allen, P.R. Chandler, C.J. Schumacher, B.M. Stolarik, W.M. Niland), AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, August, 2004.
"Communication Requirements in the Cooperative Control of Wide Area Search Munitions via Iterative Network Flow," (w/ A.G. Sparks, S.J. Rasmussen), Theory and Algorithms for Cooperative Systems, Series on Computers and Operations Research, Volume 4, pp. 311–326, ISBN 981-256-020-3, World Scientific Publishing Co., River Edge, NJ, 2004.
"A Multiple UAV Simulation for Researchers," (w/ S.J. Rasmussen, C.S. Schulz, C.J. Schumacher, P.R. Chandler), AIAA Modeling & Simulation Technologies Conference, August, 2003.
"Communication Requirements in the Cooperative Control of Wide Area Search Munitions via Iterative Network Flow," (w/ A.G. Sparks, S.J. Rasmussen), Fourth International Conference on Cooperative Control & Optimization, Destin, FL, November, 2003.
"Communication Issues in the Cooperative Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," (w/ A.G. Sparks), Forty-First Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, & Computing, Monticello, IL, October, 2003. (invited paper)
"Communication Delays in the Cooperative Control of Wide Area Search Munitions via Iterative Network Flow," (w/ C.J. Schumacher, P.R. Chandler, S.J. Rasmussen), AIAA Guidance, Navigation, & Control Conference, August, 2003.
"Optimal vs. Heuristic Assignment of Cooperative Autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicles," (w/ S.J. Rasmussen, P.R. Chandler, C.J. Schumacher, A.G. Sparks), AIAA Guidance, Navigation, & Control Conference, August, 2003.
"A Third-Order Analytical Solution for Relative Motion with a Circular Reference Orbit," (w/ D.L. Richardson), Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 51, No. 1, January–March 2003.
"Invariant Manifold Tracking for the First-Order Nonlinear Hill's Equations," (w/ D.L. Richardson), Journal of Guidance, Control & Dynamics, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 622–627, 2003.
"A Third-Order Analytical Solution for Relative Motion with a Circular Reference Orbit," (w/ D.L. Richardson), Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Spaceflight Mechanics, Volume 112, Part I, pp. 605–614, January, 2002.
"Implementing Families of Implicit Chebyshev Methods with Exact Coefficients for the Numerical Integration of First- and Second-Order Differential Equations," Defense & Technical Information Center Report AFRL-VA-WP-TR-2002-3053, May 2002.
"Maintaining Periodic Trajectories with the First-Order Nonlinear Hill's Equations," (w/ D.L. Richardson), Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Astrodynamics, Volume 109, Part III, pp. 2415–2428, August 2001.
"On the Control of In-Plane Spacecraft Relative Motion," (w/ D.L. Richardson), Proceedings of the American Controls Conference, pp. 730–731, Arlington, Virginia, 2001.
"A New Kinetic Element Formulation for the Rotation of a Perturbed Mass-Asymmetric Rigid Body," (w/ D.L. Richardson), US-European Celestial Mechanics Workshop, Poznań, Poland, July 2000, Journal of Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy, Vol. 81, No. 1/2, pp. 13–25, September 2001.
"A Simplified Variation of Parameters Approach to Euler's Equations of Motion for an Arbitrarily Torqued Asymmetric Rigid Body," (w/ D.L. Richardson), Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Astrodynamics, Volume 103, Part III, pp. 2489–2512, August 1999.
"A Variation of Parameters Approach to Euler's Equations," (w/ D.L. Richardson), Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 273–276, March 1999.
"Improved First-Order Chebyshev Methods for the Numerical Integration of First-Order Differential Equations," (w/ D.L. Richardson, D.S. Schmidt ) Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Spaceflight Mechanics, Volume 99, Part II, pp. 1533–1544, February 1998.
Professional Organizations
Member, AAS
Senior Member, AIAA
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