Junkins, John
individual record
Distinguished Professor
Positions:
- Director, Hagler Institute for Advanced STudy, Division of Research, Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President
- Distinguished Professor, Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
overview
Guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) of aerospace vehicles. Dynamical systems. Celestial Mechanics/Astrodynamics. Optimization. Optimal control of nonlinear dynamical system. Computational methods. Sensors, sensor design, sensor fusion. Autonomous systems. Space robotics. Space proximity GNC. Experimental methods for space proximity GNC. Optimal estimation. Space Situational Awareness. Space mission design optimization.
education and training
- Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles - (Los Angeles, California, United States) 1969
- M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles - (Los Angeles, California, United States) 1967
- B.A.E. in Aerospace Engineering, Auburn University - (Auburn, Alabama, United States) 1965
selected publications
Academic Articles179
- Woollands, R., & Junkins, J. L. (2019). Nonlinear Differential Equation Solvers via Adaptive Picard-Chebyshev Iteration: Applications in Astrodynamics. 35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit. 42(5), 1007-1022.
- Woollands, R., Taheri, E., & Junkins, J. L. (2019). EFFICIENT COMPUTATION OF OPTIMAL LOW THRUST GRAVITY PERTURBED ORBIT TRANSFERS. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences. 168, 899-918.
- Junkins, J. L., & Taheri, E. (2019). Exploration of Alternative State Vector Choices for Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization. 35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit. 42(1), 47-64.
- Taheri, E., & Junkins, J. L. (2018). Generic Smoothing for Optimal Bang-Off-Bang Spacecraft Maneuvers. 35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit. 41(11), 2470-2475.
- Woollands, R. M., Read, J., Hernandez, K., Probe, A., & Junkins, J. L. (2018). Unified Lambert Tool for Massively Parallel Applications in Space Situational Awareness. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences. 65(1), 29-45.
Conference Papers235
- Taheri, E., & Junkins, J. L. (2018). A GENERIC APPROACH FOR OPTIMAL BANG-OFF-BANG SPACECRAFT MANEUVERS. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences. 164, 567-590.
- Junkins, J. L., & Woollands, R. M. (2018). NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION SOLVERS VIA ADAPTIVE PICARD-CHEBYSHEV ITERATION: APPLICATIONS IN ASTRODYNAMICS. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences. 162, 1407-1426.
- Atallah, A. M., Woollands, R. M., Younes, A. B., & Junkins, J. L. (2018). Tuning orthogonal polynomial degree and segment interval length to achieve prescribed precision approximation of irregular functions. (210009),
- Budd, N. I., Read, J. L., Woollands, R. M., & Junkins, J. L. (2017). ITERATIVE FIVE-ELEMENT LYAPUNOV CONTROL FOR LOW THRUST RENDEZVOUS WITH MODIFIED CHEBYSHEV PICARD ITERATION. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences. 160, 3967-3978.
- Kaushik, A., Fujimoto, K., Alfriend, K. T., Hurtado, J. E., & Junkins, J. L. (2016). A COMPARISON BETWEEN GIBBS AND HERRICK-GIBBS ORBIT DETERMINATION METHODS. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences. 158, 3221-3235.
patents
Patents2
- Junkins, J., Pollock, T., & Mortari, D. (2003). System and method for attitude determination based on optical imaging.
- Junkins, J., Hughes, D., & Schaub, H. (2001). Noncontact position and orientation measurement system and method.
researcher on
Principal Investigator3
- Proximity Navigation Near and Mapping of Asteroids - awarded by NASA-Stennis Space Center 2013 - 2016
Co-Principal Investigator1
- Navigation Systems for Littoral Autonomous Proximity Operations awarded by DOD-Navy-Office of Naval Research 2019 - 2022
awards and honors
recent teaching activities
- AERO684 Professional Internship Instructor
- AERO684 Professional Internship: In-ab Instructor
- AERO684 Professional Internship:in-ab Instructor
- AERO685 Directed Studies Instructor
- AERO691 Research Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Whitten, William Daniel (2017-05). Improving the Robustness of Monocular Vision-Aided Navigation for Multirotors through Integrated Estimation and Guidance. (Master's Thesis)
- Woollands, Robyn Michele (2016-12). Regularization and Computational Methods for Precise Solution of Perturbed Orbit Transfer Problems. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Read, Julie Louise (2016-12). Modified Chebyshev Picard Iteration: Integration of Perturbed Motion using Modified Equinoctial Elements. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Conway, Dylan Taylor (2016-12). Vision-Aided Navigation: Improved Measurements Models and a Data Driven Approach. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Masher, Abhay Hiren (2016-12). Control of Active Pendulum for Contact Dynamics Simulation. (Master's Thesis)
Email
junkins@tamu.edu
First Name
John
Last Name
Junkins
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Aerospace Engineering; 3572 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3572
USA