Michael A. Swartwout

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

Swartwout, Michael, Jared Macke, Keith Bennett, William D. Smart, "The Bandit: An Automated Vision-Navigated Inspector Spacecraft," Proceedings of the 17th AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, August 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

Earth to Mars: The Ups, Downs (and Outs) of our Trips to the Red Planet. Presented on 5/22/2004 for a School of Engineering & Applied Sciences Alumni Reunion event. [Best viewed on Internet Explorer, unfortunately. Click on the full-screen slide show to watch all the flashy animation.]
A Small History of Small Spacecraft. Colloquium presentation to the Mechanical Engineering Department at Washington University, September 19, 2002. You can see the entire presentation in streaming video here (or, at a lower speed, here). (Those links worked on 8/15/2005...)

Last Updated 11/14/2007