Contact Information

• Name: Louis Breger
• Office: 33-409
• Phone: 617-253-3132
• Email: lbreger[at]mit[dot]edu

Education

• Ph.D. Candidate, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• S.M., Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2004
• S.B., Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2002

Research Interests

• Formation Flying Spacecraft
• Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking of Spacecraft
• Model Predictive Control
• Online Optimization for Trajectory Planning

Selected Publications

1. Safe Trajectories for Autonomous Rendezvous of Spacecraft submitted to the 2006 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference
2. Partial J2-Invariance for Spacecraft Formations submitted to the 2006 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference
3. Maneuver-optimized J2-Invariant Initial Conditions presented at the NASA 2005 Flight Mechanics Symposium, Oct. 2005.
4. J2-Modified GVE-Based MPC for Formation Flying Spacecraft proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Aug 2005. AIAA-2005-5833
5. Model Predictive Control of Spacecraft Formations with Sensing Noise Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, June 2005, pp. 2385-2391.
6. Semimajor Axis Estimation Strategies 2nd International Symposium on Formation Flying Missions & Technologies, Washington, DC, September 14-16, 2004
7. Effects of Navigation Filter Properties on Formation Flying Control proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Aug 2004. AIAA-2004-5024
8. Distributed Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft Built on OA proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, August 2003

Other links

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