2004 Affiliates Meeting
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Tues. and Wed., April 27 and 28, 2004
Programs of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Affiliates of Stanford University in Aeronautics and Astronautics
W. F. Durand Building, Hoff Conference Room (Room 450)
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
| 8:15 | Welcome and Department Overview Prof. Brian Cantwell, Dept. Chair Prof. Steve Rock, Dir. Affiliates Program |
| 8:30 | Autonomous Free-Climbing Robot Tim Bretl Rock |
| 8:40 | Robust Centimeter-Level Mars Rover Navigation using a Self-Calibrating Pseudolite Array Masayoshi Matsuoka Rock |
| 8:50 | Autonomous High-Precision Local Navigation for Underwater Vehicles Kristof Richmond Rock |
| 9:00 | Questions and Answers |
| 9:10 | Ionospheric Considerations for Wide Area GPS Augmentation Systems Seebany Datta-Barua Enge |
| 9:20 | Doppler-Aided Tracking Loops and a Software Receiver Test-Bed for JPALS Tsung-Yu Chiou Enge |
| 9:25 | Questions and Answers |
| 9:40 | New Challenges in Mathematically Modeling Biological Signaling Networks Keith Amonlirdviman Tomlin |
| 9:50 | Inference of Models for Tracking Stochastic Hybrid Systems Hamsa Balakrishnan Tomlin |
| 10:00 | Distributed Optimization for Cooperative Agents: Application to Formation Flight Robin Raffard Tomlin |
| 10:10 | Flight Test Results of the Stanford Dragonfly UAV's Jung Soon Jang Tomlin |
| 10:20 | Questions and Answers |
| 10:30 | Break (15 minutes) |
| 10:45 | Topology-Independent Stability of Interconnected Systems Randy Cogill Lall |
| 10:55 | Maximum Lifetime Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks Ritesh Madan Lall |
| 11:05 | Global Stability of Network Congestion Control Matthew Peet Lall |
| 11:15 | Optimal Control of Communicating Vehicles Michael Rotkowitz Lall |
| 11:25 | Questions and Answers |
| 11:35 | Loran: A GPS Alternative for Aircraft Navigation Lee Boyce Powell |
| 11:45 | Questions and Answers |
| 11:55 | Lunch (Patio - Mitchell Building) |
| 1:00 | Diagnostic Imaging for Structural Health Monitoring James Rose Chang |
| 1:10 | Embedded Sensor Systems for Fatigue Crack Monitoring Alexi Rakow Chang |
| 1:20 | Questions and Answers |
| 1:30 | Wireless Gastric Endocapsule Zsolt Kiraly Springer |
| 1:40 | Questions and Answers |
| 1:50 | Conceptual Aircraft Design for the Environment Nicolas Antoine Kroo |
| 2:00 | Computational Investigation of Miniature Trailing Edge Control Surfaces Hak-Tae Lee |
| 2:10 | Questions and Answers |
| 2:20 | Flow Field Characterization in a Hybrid Rocket Siina Haapanen Cantwell |
| 2:30 | Questions and Answers |
| 2:40 | Quakesat: Low Cost University/Commercial Nanosatellite Collaboration Allen Lorenz, Tom Bleier, & Eric Tapio Twiggs |
| 2:50 | A Framework for Robust Space Communication Systems Built on Recovery Oriented Design Principles James Cutler Twiggs |
| 3:00 | MAST: Multi-Application Survival Tether Nick Harrison Twiggs |
| 3:10 | Questions and Answers |
| 3:20 | Break (15 minutes) |
| 3:35 | An Orbit Thurster Calibration for Gravity Probe-B DeBra |
| 3:45 | Quiet Hydraulic Actuators for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory (LIGO) Corwin Hardham DeBra |
| 3:55 | Poly-phase FIR Complimentary Filters for Control Systems Wensheng Hua DeBra |
| 4:05 | Gravitational Self-Attraction Analysis for LISA Aaron Swank DeBra |
| 4:15 | Questions and Answers |
| Adjourn |
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
| 8:30 | Continental Breakfast with Students (Résumé book and fellowship students) |
| 9:40 | Numerical Simulation of Aircraft Wake-Engine Exhaust Interaction Anup Shirgaonkar Lele |
| 9:50 | The Prediction of Jet Noise using Large-Eddy Simulation Daniel J. Bodony, Monchi Liu Lele |
| 10:00 | Numerical Simulation of Turbine Blade Leading-Edge Heat-Transfer in a Turbulent Flow Ioulia Iourokina, Zhongmin Xiong Lele |
| 10:10 | Questions and Answers |
| 10:20 | Supersonic Low-Boom Aircraft Design Seongim Choi Alonso |
| 10:30 | Aerodynamic Issues in Hard Disk Drives Andre Chan Alonso |
| 10:40 | Multi-Disciplinary Optimization for a New Family of Low-Cost Launch Vehicles Michael Colonno Alonso |
| 10:50 | High-Fidelity Aeroelastic Simulation Pradipta Sahu Alonso |
| 11:00 | Questions and Answers |
| 11:10 | Break (15 minutes) |
| 11:25 | Aero-Structural Wing Planform Optimization Kasidit Leoviriyakit Jameson |
| 11:35 | Recent Progress Toward a High-Flexibilitty Computational Tool for Applied Aerodynamics Georg May Jameson |
| 11:45 | Analysis of Minimum Wave Drag Profiles for Supersonic Flow: Can We Improve on Results from Linear Theory Karthik Palaniappan Jameson |
| 11:55 | Questions and Answers |
| Adjourn |