Contact Information

- Name: Geoffrey Huntington
- Office: 33-409
- Office Phone: 617-253-3132
- Cell Phone: 617-233-0305
- MIT Email: bugman[at]mit[dot]edu
- Draper Laboratory Fellow
- Draper email: ghuntington[at]draper[dot]com
Education
- Ph.D. Candidate, MIT Department of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, Draper Laboratory Fellow
- S.M., Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2003
- B.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of California,
Los Angeles,
2001
Research Interests
- Spacecraft Trajectory Design
- Optimal Control
- Nonlinear Programming
- Astrodynamics
- Spacecraft Guidance &
Navigation
- Systems Engineering
Selected
Publications
- Huntington, G.T., and Rao, A.V., “A Comparison of Global vs
Local Orthogonal Collocation for Solving Optimal Control Problems,”
to appear in the American Control Conference, NYC, NY, June 11-13, 2007.
- Huntington, G.T., and Rao, A.V., “Optimal Configuration of
Tetrahedral Spacecraft Formations”, to appear in the Journal of Astronautical Sciences.
- Benson, D.A., Huntington, G.T., Thorvaldsen, T.P., and
Rao, A.V., “Direct
Trajectory Optimization and Costate Estimation via an Orthogonal
Collocation Method”, Journal
of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Vol. 29, No. 6, pp.1435-1440.
- Huntington, G.T., Benson, D.A., and Rao, A.V., “Post-Optimality
Evaluation and Analysis of a Formation Flying Problem via a Gauss
Pseudospectral Method,” Proceedings of the 2005 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics
Specialist Conference, AAS Paper 05-339, Lake Tahoe, CA, Aug. 7-11, 2005
- Huntington, G.T., and Rao, A.V., “Optimal
Reconfiguration of a Spacecraft Formation via a Gauss Pseudospectral
Method,” Proceedings of the 2005 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics
Specialist Conference, AAS Paper 05-338, Lake Tahoe, CA, Aug. 7-11, 2005
- Huntington, G.T., and Rao, A.V., “Optimal
Spacecraft Formation Configuration Using a Gauss Pseudospectral Method,”
Proceedings of the 2005 AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting, AAS Paper
05-103, Copper Mountain,
CO, Jan 23-27, 2005.