Symmetric Canonical Polyadic Decomposition And Gauss-Newton Optimizer For Nonlinear Volterra System Identification

This thesis applies the Gauss-Newton optimizer to estimate the parameter values of the Volterra-PARAFAC model by minimizing a nonlinear least square cost (NLS) function given the input and output measurements of the MISO Volterra system.

Solar-sail transfers to Earth-Moon L2-displaced vertical Lyapunov orbits

This thesis presents the design of solar-sail transfer trajectories to a constellation of two spacecraft in displaced vertical Lyapunov orbits at the L2 point of the Earth-Moon system. The constellation provides continuous coverage of the Aitken basin and the lunar South Pole. Initial guesses for the transfers are generated using reverse time...

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Linear Time-Varying Pilot-Vehicle System Parameters