Jack Langelaan, P.Eng.
Ph.D. Candidate, Aeronautics and Astronautics
For detailed information please see these pages.
jack@sun-valley.stanford.edu
Education |
B.A.Sc., Engineering Physics (Mechanical Option)
Queen's University, 1992 Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics University of Washington, 1994 |
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Current Project |
Autonomous Navigation of Small UAVs Operating in Unknown Environments
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Past Projects |
From August 1995 to June 2000 I worked at Bombardier Aerospace in Toronto. I started in the Structures Research and Development group, where I worked on advanced materials and damage tolerance analysis of reinforced structures. I spent about six months working with the stress office working on finite element modelling of the nacelle of the Q400 aircraft. I then spent a few years with the Acoustics and Vibration Group, working primarily on cabin noise reduction of the Global Express business jet. I also spent some time working on cabin noise reduction of the Continental Business Jet and noise certification of the RJ700 regional aircraft.
When I joined the ARL in January 2001 I worked on OTTER, an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. |
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Research Interests |
I spent several months working on distributed estimation and control applied to the problem of cooperative transport of large objects by teams of free-flying space robots. This morphed into research purely on distributed estimation, since several dissertations had already been written by previous lab members on the problem of cooperative control (Schneider 1989, Dickson 1993, Meer 1994 and Russakow 1995) when state information is available. Eventually the "manipulation" part of the project disappeared and I was working on distributed estimation by a team of free flying robots. The problem was estimating the position of a possibly moving object by a team of robots who had imprecise measurements of their own position and a relative measurement (such as bearing) to the object under observation. This morphed into flying a single robotic aircraft through a forest of many trees.
For more information see the Research section of my detailed web pages. |
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Other Activities |
In Fall 2002 I was the TA for AA242A, Classical Dynamics, taught by Prof. Rock.
Our daughter Hannah was born on June 28, 2002... see the family section of my detailed pages for photographs! |
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