ASRL Undergraduate Researcher Selected for The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
Keanu Brayman, one of ASRL’s Undergraduate Researchers was selected to be a part of The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Class of 2025.
ASRL Undergraduate Defends Her Thesis
On Thursday, June 19th, Nicole Weeden Martins successfully defended her Undergraduate Thesis titled “Exploring the Dynamics of Cislunar Space: A Detailed Study of Periodic Orbits and Their Applications in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem. She will presenting her academic paper soon at an upcoming conference. Nicole will finish her undergraduate studies in August 2025 and…
5th PhD Student Defends his Dissertation
Congratulations to Pugazhenthi Sivasankar on successfully defending his PhD dissertation! Pugal’s research studies a novel framework for orbit probability approximation for SDA applications. His work has been sponsored by Lockheed Martin, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Pugal’s contributions have been recognized through publications in various esteemed journals and conferences, earning multiple…
New Paper Published on Orbit Uncertainty Propagation Using Real Satellite Data
Exciting News! Our paper on using real satellite data to validate orbit uncertainty quantification techniques is now published in Acta Astronautica. Congratulations to Pugazhenthi Sivasankar and our co-authors Austin Probe and Bennie Lewis.Many thanks to Greg Madsen for the invaluable insights on the raw and post-processed data.Finally, we would like to acknowledge the continued support…
ASRL Students’ Paper Awarded Best Paper Award at the DDDAS Conference 2024
Thrilled to announce that our paper titled “Application of a State Space Based Neural Network Model for Uncertainty Propagation in Dynamical Systems”, has been awarded the best paper award (1st place) at the Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS) 2024 Conference.Congratulations to my students and main authors Pugazhenthi Sivasankar and Hunter Quebedeaux for their hard…
ASRL Student Awarded HUT Award for Fall 2024
Congratulations to Nicole Weeden Martins for being awarded the Honors Undergraduate Thesis Award by the College of Engineering and Computer Science at UCF for Fall 2024! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicole-weeden-martins_im-thrilled-to-share-that-i-have-been-selected-activity-7257133415257268224-cILy?utm_source=social_share_sheet&utm_medium=member_desktop_web
New Paper Published on Orbit Uncertainty Propogation
Congratulations to Pugazhenthi Sivasankar on the publishing of our paper on orbit uncertainty propagation using orthogonal polynomials. This achievement is a testament to your dedication and hard work. Special thanks to our co-author, Austin Probe, for his commitment since the inception of this endeavor. The paper is a culmination of years of effort and collaboration,…
ASRL Student Accepted into USAF STEM+M Program
Aerospace Engineering PhD student Bethany Hintz has been selected for the USAF STEM+M program under Dr. Tarek Elgohary’s ASRL. Bethany’s research focus is on Optimal Control for solving problems in space flight applications.
Chateaubriand Fellowship Awarded to ASRL Student
Congratulations to my student Pugazhenthi Sivasankar for receiving the Chateaubriand Fellowship. All the best!
IEEE Aerospace Conference 2024
This week Ryan Ketzner presented his work on a new algorithm for satellite coverage simulation, orders of magnitude faster than the current state-of-the-art, at the IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, MT.Many thanks to our co-author Vinay Ravindra for his significant contributions and to Matt Dosberg for his support.