Michael A. Swartwout
Journal Publications
- Swartwout, Michael, Christopher Kitts, and Jamie Cutler,
"Sapphire: A Case Study in Student-Built Spacecraft," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets,
accepted for publication.
- Swartwout, Michael, "Earth escape using a
slowly rotating, doubly reflective solar sail," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics,
28(2):374-377, March/April 2005.
- Swartwout, Michael and Christopher A. Kitts, "Beacon
Monitoring: Reducing the Cost of Nominal Spacecraft Operations," Journal
of
Reducing Space Mission Cost, 1:305-338, 1998.
Conference Publications
2006
- Swartwout, Michael, "Bandit: A
Platform for Responsive
Educational and Research Activities," Proceedings
of the 4th Responsive Space Conference 2006, AIAA-RS4-2006-3004,
Los Angeles, CA, 24-27 April 2006. Presentation is here.
- Swartwout, Michael, "Twenty
(plus) Years of University-Class Spacecraft: A Review of
What Was, An Understanding of What Is, And a Look at What Should Be Next,
" Proceedings of the 20th Annual
AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, SSC06-I-3, Logan, UT,
14-17 August 2006. Presentation is here.
(Note that the paper is a post-conference revision, including the
figures from the presentation.)
2005
- Swartwout, Michael, Christopher Kitts, Pascal Stang and E. Glenn
Lightsey, "A Standardized, Distributed Computing
Architecture:
Results from Three Universities", Proceedings
of the 18th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites,
SSC05-VI-6, Logan, UT, 8-11 August 2005. Presentation from 10
August 2005 is here.
2004
- Swartwout, Michael, "Deployable Inspector Spacecraft: Technology Development and Future
Applications with Solar Sails," poster session at the 2004
Technology Applications Conference, Greenbelt, MD, 28-29 September
2004. Here is the full
poster (did not reproduce well in PDF) and a more printer-friendly
set of charts.
- Swartwout, Michael, Keith Bennett, and Jared Macke, "Integrating Hands-On
Design Education and
Faculty Research at Washington University," Proceedings of the Space 2004 Conference,
AIAA-2004-5816, San Diego, CA, 28-30 September 2004. The
presentation from 28 September 2004 is here.
- Swartwout, Michael, "University-Class
Satellites: From Marginal
Utility to 'Disruptive' Research Platforms," Proceedings of the 18th Annual AIAA/USU
Conference on Small Satellites, SSC04-II-5, Logan, UT, 9-12
August 2004. Presentation from 10 August 2004 is here; updated table of
university-class spacecraft is here.
- Macke, Jared, David Miller, Michael Swartwout, Keith Bennett and
William D. Smart, "Deployable
Inspector Spacecraft for Distributed Field Measurements" [10 MB], Proceedings of the 2004 Internaticnal
Communications Satellite Systems Conference, Monterey,
California, 9-12 May 2004.
- Swartwout, Michael , "Earth Escape Using
a Slowly-Rotating, Doubly-Reflective Solar Sail," Proceedings of the 2004 AAS/AIAA Space
Flight Mechanics Conference, AAS-04-280, Maui, Hawaii, 8-12
February 2004.
- Neubauer, Jeremy and Michael Swartwout, "A Comparison of Solar
Sail Control Methods in Geosynchronous Transfer Orbits," Proceedings of the 2004 AAS/AIAA Space
Flight Mechanics Conference, AAS-04-281, Maui, Hawaii, 8-12
February 2004.
2003
2002
- Palmintier, B., Kitts, C., Stang, P., and Swartwout, M.,
"A Distributed Control Architecture for Small Satellite and
Multi-Spacecraft Missions," Proceedings of the 16th AIAA/USU
Conference on Small Satellites, Logan Utah, August 2002.
2001
- Swartwout, Michael, “A
Systematic Formulation of Spacecraft Health Management Decisions,” IEEE
Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings 2001, IEEE Computer
Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 2001.
- Swartwout, Michael and Keith J. Bennett, “Project Aria: Space Systems Research,
Education and Public Outreach at Washington University,” IEEE
Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings 2001, IEEE Computer
Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 2001.
From Graduate Work
- Swartwout, Michael, "Theory and Implementation of Summarization:
Improving Sensor Interpretation for Spacecraft Operations," PhD
dissertation, Stanford University, December 1999.
- Swartwout, Michael A., Christopher A. Kitts and Rajesh K. Batra,
"Persistence-Based Production
Rules for On-Board Satellite Autonomy," IEEE Aerospace
Applications Conference Proceedings 1999, IEEE Computer Society,
Los Alamitos, CA, 1999.
- Niederstrasser, Carlos G., Michael A. Swartwout, and Christopher
A. Kitts, "Design and Performance Testing of a Satellite Health Beacon
Receiving Station," IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference
Proceedings 1999, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 1999.
- Swartwout, Michael, "Engineering
Data Summaries for Space Missions," IEEE Aerospace Applications
Conference Proceedings 1998,
IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 1998.
Presentations
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