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Investigating the Impact of Communication Delay on Mission Control as an Effective Team Member with the Crew
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aims to send humans to Mars in the coming decade. However, the significant communication delay of up to 22 minutes one way poses challenges for Mission Control (MC) ...
A Systems Framework for Multi-Messenger Astronomy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
Multi-messenger (and more broadly, panchromatic) astronomy regards the use of multimodal information — incident photons, gravitational waves, neutrinos, and cosmic rays — to form astrophysical inferences. Since each messenger ...
Spectral measurements of hydrogen Lyman-alpha in the atmospheres of Venus and Jupiter using a sounding rocket and the Hubble Space Telescope
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The Lyman-alpha emission is a key signature of the presence of hydrogen, and from this emission many properties of planetary atmospheres can be analyzed. Two projects are studying this emission on two planets for two ...
Multiparty quantum state discrimination
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
We consider the problem of identifying an unknown multiparty quantum state using local operations and classical communication (LOCC). In particular, we consider a class of protocols that utilize a sequence of LOCC, referred ...
Instrument systematics calibration and performance validation for high precision photometry missions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Exoplanet detection using planetary transits requires very high precision photometry. The systematic noise requirement on photometry missions is limited to tens of parts per million over few hour timescales. The present ...
Effective information sharing for human-robot collaboration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Humans and machines often possess complementary skills. The recognition of this fact is leading to a steadily growing interest in collaborative robots. Despite the growing interest, however, a fundamental question remains ...
Moment-based risk-bounded trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Uncertainty in the behavior of agents on the road is arguably one of the greatest challenges preventing the large scale deployment of fully autonomous vehicles on public roads. This uncertainty is complex and challenging ...
Output-based adaptive RANS solutions using higher-order FEM on a multi-element airfoil
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Higher-order methods in computational fluid dynamics have the potential to provide accurate solutions at lower computational costs than traditional methods. Obtaining accurate flow solutions requires the use of computational ...