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Axelrad, Penina

Joseph T. Negler Endowed Professor

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Research

research overview

  • Professor Axelrad's primary research focus is on methods and applications for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), including Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) or GPS and alternative PNT.

keywords

  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GPS / GNSS) technology and applications, clocks, orbit estimation, Space Domain Awareness

Publications

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Teaching

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  • ASEN 2003 - Aerospace 3: Introduction to Dynamics and Systems
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021
    Introduces the principles of particle and planar rigid body dynamics, systems, and controls. Topics include kinematics, kinetics, momentum and energy methods, system modeling, and simple feedback control. Class includes experimental and design laboratory exercises for aerospace applications of dynamic principles.
  • ASEN 2703 - Introduction to Dynamics and Systems
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
    Introduces the principles of particle and planar rigid body dynamics, systems, and controls. Topics include kinematics, kinetics, momentum and energy methods, system modeling, and simple feedback control.
  • ASEN 3200 - Orbital Mechanics/Attitude Dynamics and Control
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2022
    Presents the fundamentals of orbital mechanics, 3D rigid body dynamics and satellite attitude dynamics and controls.
  • ASEN 5018 - Graduate Projects I
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021
    Exposes MS and PhD students to project management and systems engineering disciplines while working a complex aerospace engineering project as part of a project team. The project team may perform some or all of the following project activities during this first semester of the two-semester course sequence: requirements, definition, design and design review, build, test, and verification. Recommended prerequisite: ASEN 4138 or ASEN 5148 or ASEN 5158 or instructor consent required.
  • ASEN 5044 - Statistical Estimation for Dynamical Systems
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023
    Introduces theory and methods of statistical estimation for general linear and nonlinear dynamical systems, with emphasis on aerospace engineering applications. Major topics include: review of applied probability and statistics; optimal parameter and dynamic state estimation; theory and design of Kalman filters for linear systems; extended/unscented Kalman filters and general Bayesian filters for non-linear systems.
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