John E. Hurtado
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Assistant Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
H.R. Bright Building, Room 706
3141 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-3141
tel: 979.845.1659; fax: 979.845.6051
email: jehurtado@tamu.edu
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Interests
- Theoretical Mechanics
- Cooperative Games, Controls, & Dynamics
- Structural Dynamics
Education
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 1995.
Some New Methods for Optimal Control of Constrained Dynamical Systems, advised by J.L. Junkins.
Publications
Ariticles
J-14. Linear feedback controls using quasi velocities, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 29, No. 6, 2006.
J-13. Application of the Cayley form to general spacecraft motion, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2006.
J-12. Minimum-parameter representations of n-dimensional principal rotations, The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 53, No. 3, 2005.
J-11. Convergence of Newton’s method via Lyapunov analysis, Journal of Guidance, Control, & Dynamics, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2005.
J-10. Cayley kinematics and the Cayley form of dynamics equations, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 461, No. 2055, 2005.
J-9. Decentralized control for a swarm of vehicles performing source localization, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 41, 2004.
J-8. Hamel coefficients for the rotational motion of an n-dimensional rigid body, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 460, No. 2052, 2004.
J-7. Hamel coefficients for the rotational motion of a rigid body, The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 52, Nos. 1 and 2, 2004.
J-6. Stability and control of collective systems, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 39, 2004.
J-5. Cooperative control of vehicle swarms for acoustic target localization by energy flows, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 126, Iss. 4, 2004.
J-4. Miniature mobile robots for plume tracking and source localization, Journal of Micromechatronics, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2002.
J-3. Paul Bunyan’s brachistochrone and tautochrone, The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 48, Nos. 2 and 3, 2000.
J-2. Optimal near-minimum-time control, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1998.
J-1. In-field monitoring of wind turbines, Sound and Vibration, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1998.
Books
- Kinematic and Kinetic Principles, available from Lulu.com 2007, J.E. Hurtado
- Applied Dynamic Programming for Optimization of Dynamical Systems, SIAM 2005 (with R.D. Robinett III, D.G. Wilson, and G.R. Eisler)
Current Students
- Lesley Weitz (2004-2007 NSF Fellowship; 2005-2006 Amelia Earhart Fellowship; 2004-2005 Amelia Earhart Fellowship; 2004 Tau Beta Pi Spencer Fellowship; 2004 Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowship; 2004 Langley Aerospace Research Scholar; 2007 SEI Mentor)
- Rajnish Sharma
- Julie Jones (2005-2008 NSF Fellowship; 2005-2008 NDSEG Fellowship; Department of Homeland Security National Fellowship; 2004 Benjamin and Deanna Smith Scholarship, National Merit Scholar)
- Stefanie Beaver (2005-2008 NSF Fellowship)
- Allen Parish (comp eng) (2005-2008 NSF Fellowship; Department of Homeland Security National Fellowship)
- Kevin Brink (math) (NSF GK-12 Mentor)
- Kevin Daugherty
