Previous Students
2025¶
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Daniel Koch
Degree: PhD Mechanical Engineering
2024¶
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Aaron Brown
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
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David Christensen
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
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Jaron Ellingson
Degree: PhD Mechanical Engineering
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Coulton Karch
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
2023¶
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Alex Jordan
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
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Brendon Forsgren
Degree: PhD Mechanical Engineering
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Jake Johnson
Degree: PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dissertation: Continuous-time Trajectory Estimation and its Application to Sensor Calibration and Differentially Flat Systems
2022¶
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Thane Downing
Degree: MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: downing2@byu.edu
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Tanner Norton
Degree: MS Computer Science
Email: tannort5@byu.edu
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Doug Graff
Degree: MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
2021¶
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Jacob Willis
Degree: MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thesis: "Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control for Winged Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft,"
Email: jbwillis272@gmail.com
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Matthew Rydalch
Degree: MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: matthewk.rydalch@gmail.com
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Hayden Morgan
Degree: MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thesis: "Small-Target Detection and Observation with Vision-Enabled Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aircraft Systems,"
Email: haydenmmorgan@gmail.com
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Mark Petersen
Degree: PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dissertation: A Geometric Approach to Multiple Target Tracking Using Lie Groups
Email: pet09034@byu.edu
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Seth Nielsen
Degree: MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thesis: "A Visually Realistic Simulator for Autonomous eVTOL Aircraft,"
Email: sethmnielsen@gmail.com
2020¶
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Jared Moore
Degree: MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
2019¶
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Jerel Nielson
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Robust Visual-Inertial Navigation and Control of Fixed-Wing and Multirotor Aircraft
Email: jerel.nielsen@gmail.com
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Jacob Olson
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
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Gary Ellingson
Degree: PhD Mechanical Engineering
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James Jackson
Degree: PhD Mechanical Engineering
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Michael Farrell
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
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Puneet Jain
Degree: MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Skyler Tolman
Degree: MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thesis: "Multiple Agent Target Tracking in GPS-Denied Environments,"
2018¶
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Jesse Wynn
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: wynnsquad@gmail.com
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Parker Lusk
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Path Planning for Unmanned Air and Ground Vehicles in Urban Environments,"
Email: parkerclusk@gmail.com
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Jae Lee
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: Nonlinear Control Framework for Gimbal and Multirotor in Target tracking,
Email: jaelee.byu@gmail.com
2017¶
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Jeffrey Millard
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Multiple Target Tracking in Realistic Environments Using Recursive-RANSAC in a Data Fusion Framework,"
Email: jeffrey.d.millard@gmail.com
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Matthew Duffield
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering and MBA
Email: matt.o.duffield.bsm@gmail.com
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David Wheeler
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Relative Navigation of Micro Air Vehicles in GPS-Degraded Environments
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Jared Wikle
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: jkwikle@yahoo.com
2016¶
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Matthew Argyle
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Modeling and Control of a Tailsitter with a Ducted Fan
Email: matt.argyle@gmail.com
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Josh Sakamaki
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Cooperative Estimation for a Vision-Based Target Tracking System,"
Email: joshsakamaki@gmail.com
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Laith Sahawneh
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Airborne Collision Detection and Avoidance for Small UAS Sense and Avoid Systems
Email: laith20@hotmail.com
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Benjamin Lewis
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "A Visual Return-to-Home System for GPS-Denied Flight,"
Email: benjamin.lewis.1000@gmail.com
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Jeff Ferrin
Degree: PhD Mechanical Engineering
Email: jeff_ferrin@hotmail.com
2015¶
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Eric Quist
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: UAV Navigation and Radar Odometry
Email: eric.quist@gmail.com
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Paul Nyholm
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: pwnyholm@gmail.com
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Kyle Ingersoll
Degree: BS Mechanical Engineering
Email: jkiclimber@gmail.com
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Patrick DeFranco
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: Detecting and Tracking Moving Objects from a Small Unmanned Air Vehicle, Email: pacadef@gmail.com
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Dallin Briggs
Degree: BS Mechanical Engineering
Email: dallinbriggs@gmail.com
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James Ingersoll
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Vision Based Multiple Target Tracking Using Recursive RANSAC,"
2014¶
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Jason Beach
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: jmbeach@byu.edu
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Peter Niedfeldt
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Recursive-RANSAC: A Novel Algorithm for Tracking Multiple Targets in Clutter
Email: pcniedfeldt@gmail.com
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Justin Mackay
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: 1.732mackay@gmail.com
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Nathan Edwards
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: nathanedwards8@gmail.com
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Brandon Cannon
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: brandonjcan@gmail.com
2013¶
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Joe Nichols
Degree: PhD Mechanical Engineering
Email: nichols@byu.edu
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Robert Leishman
Degree: PhD Mechanical Engineering
Email: rleish@gmail.com
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Robert Klaus
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: robertklaus@byu.net
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Everett Bryan
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Cooperative Target Tracking Enhanced with the Sequence Memoizer,"
Email: eabryan@byu.edu
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Stephen Quebe
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Modeling, Parameter Estimation, and Gaze Control of Unmanned Indoor Quadrotor,"
2012¶
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Ian Beaty
Degree: BS Mechanical Engineering
Email: grnhrnt@byu.net
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Bryce Ready
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Email: bryce.ready@gmail.com
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Bryce Pincock
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Real-Time Target Following Using an Unmanned Rotorcraft with a Laser Rangefinder,"
Email: bpincock@yahoo.com
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John Macdonald
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Efficient Estimation for Small Multi-Rotor Air Vehicles Operating in Unknown, Indoor Environments
Email: johnatbyu@hotmail.com
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Brandon Carroll
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Using Motion Fields to Estimate Video Utility and Detect GPS Spoofing,"
Email: ctnodnarb@yahoo.com
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Liang (Solomon) Sun
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Dynamic Modeling, Trajectory Generation and Tracking, Simulations and Experiements of Aerially Towed Cable Systems for Aerial Recovery of Miniature Aerial Vehicles
Email: sun.liang@byu.edu
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Kevin Meier
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Developing a Guidance Law for a Small-Scale Controllable Projectile Using Backstepping and Adaptive Control Techniques and a Hardware System Implementation for a UAV and a UGV to Track a Moving Ground Target,"
2011¶
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Brett Millar
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: brett.millar@gmail.com
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Rajnikant Sharma
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Bearing-only Cooperative Localization and Path Planning for Ground and Aerial Robots
Email: rs535@et.byu.edu
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Huili Yu
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Vision-based Path Planning, Collision Avoidance, and Target Tracking for Unmanned Air and Ground Vehicles in Urban Environments
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Caleb Chamberlain
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "System Identification, State Estimation, and Control of Unmanned Aerial Robots,"
2010¶
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Jacob Bishop
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: bishop.jacob@byu.edu
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Travis Millet
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
2009¶
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David Casbeer
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Decentralized Estimation Using Information Consensus Filters with a Multi-Static UAV Radar Tracking System
Email: dwc8@email.byu.edu
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Jeff Saunders
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Obstacle Avoidance, Visual Automatic Target Tracking, and Task Allocation for Small Unmanned Air Vehicles
Email: saunders.jeff@gmail.com
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Rhett Phillips
Degree: BS Mechanical Engineering
Email: rhetty2roll@hotmail.com
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Benjamin Heiner
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Email: benjamin.heiner@byu.net
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James Hall
Degree: PhD Mechanical Engineering
Email: hallatkj@gmail.com
2008¶
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Andrew Curtis
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Path Planning for Unmanned Air and Ground Vehicles in Urban Environments,"
Email: byudrew@gmail.com
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Evan Andersen
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Email: andersen.evan@gmail.com
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Jared Yates
Degree: BS Electrical Engineering
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Neil Johnson
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: neil_johnson@byu.edu
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Steven Hansen
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: stevenhansen01@yahoo.com
2007¶
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Blake Barber
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: d.blake.barber@gmail.com
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Nathan Knoebel
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: nbk4@byu.edu
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Derek Kingston
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Implementation Issues of Real-Time Trajectory Generation of Small UAVs,"
Dissertation: Decentralized Control of Multiple UAVs for Perimeter and Target Surveillance
Email: derek_kingston@hotmail.com
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Joe Jackson
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Thesis: "THESIS TITLE HERE"
Email: joseph_jackson@byu.edu
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David Hubbard
Degree: MS Computer Science
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Joe Egbert
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Low-Altitude Road Following Using Strap-Down Cameras on Miniature Aerial Vehicles,"
Email: jegbert1@gmail.com
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Justin Bradley
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Email: jmb275@et.byu.edu
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Steve Osborne
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Transition Between Hover and Level Flight for a Tailsitter UAV,"
Email: srosborne@gmail.com
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Jason Howlett
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Three Enabling Technologies for Vision-Based Forest-Fire Perimeter Surveillance Using Multiple Unmanned Aerial Systems,"
Email: holt.ryan@gmail.com
2006¶
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Josh Matthews
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Adaptive Control of Micro Unmanned Air Vehicles,"
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David Johansen
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Video Stabilization and Object Localization using Feature Tracking with Small UAV Video,"
Email: davejohansen@gmail.com
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Andrew Eldredge
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: andrewe@byu.edu
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Brandon Call
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering J Thesis: "Obstacle Avoidance for Unmanned Air Vehicles,"
Email: brandoncall@gmail.com
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Jeff Anderson
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Email: jda064@gmail.com
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Jisang Sun
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
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Joshua Matthews
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Adaptive Control of Micro Unmanned Air Vehicles,"
2005¶
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Steve Griffiths
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
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Dale Rowley
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: dale.rowley@perceptekrobotics.com
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Joshua Redding
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: jredding@byu.edu
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Morgan Quigley
Degree: BS Computer Science
Email: morganquigley@gmail.com
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Derek Nelson
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: derek.nelson@byu.net
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Walt Johnson
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Design and Implementation of the Kestrel Autopilot,"
Email: waltj@procurusuav.com
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Matt Blake
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Email: blakem@ee.byu.edu
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Gerrit Sorensen
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Email: gas4@email.byu.edu
2004¶
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Jason Vest
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: jvest@et.byu.edu
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Wei Ren
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Consensus Seeking, Formation Keeping, and Trajectory Tracking in Multiple Vehicle Cooperative Control
Email: wren@engineering.usu.edu
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Joshua Hintze
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Autonomous Landing of a Rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in a Non-Cooperative Environment Using Machine Vision,"
Email: jh279@email.byu.edu
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Reed Christiansen
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Design of an Autopilot for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,"
Email: reedchristiansen@gmail.com
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David Walker
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: dhw6@et.byu.edu
2003¶
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Steve Olson
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: olsonsa@ee.byu.edu
2002¶
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Erik Anderson
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Extremal Control and Unmanned Air Vehicle Trajectory Generation,"
Email: eandersn@ee.byu.edu
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Peter Jones
Degree: BS Electrical Engineering
Email: jonep@ee.byu.edu
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Jason Howlett
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: howlett@et.byu.edu
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J. Willard Curtis
Degree: PhD Mechanical Engineering
Thesis: "Nonlinear controller comparison on a benchmark system,"
Dissertation: Satisficing Control for Nonlinear Systems
2001¶
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Jed Kelsey
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "The MAGICC Mobile Robot Toolbox (MMRT): A Simulink-based Control and Coordination Toolbox for Multiple Robotic Agents,"
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Kevin Judd
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Email: kevjudd@us.ibm.com
2000¶
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Brett Young
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Mobile robots: coordination and control,"
Email: brett_j_young@west.raytheon.com
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Jonathan Lawton
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: A behavior-based approach for spacecraft formation
Email: jonathan_r_lawton@raytheon.com
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Chad Humberstone
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: chad@byu.net
1999¶
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Chris Bailey
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Email: cbailey@orem.verio.net
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Tim Gold
Degree: MS Mechanical Engineering
Email: tgold@byu.net
Unknown¶
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Andres Rodriguez
Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
Email: andres.rodriguez@byu.edu
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Brandon Reimschissel
Degree: BS Electrical Engineering
Email: brandon.reimschissel@gmail.com
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Sujit P.B.
Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering