Successive convexification for fuel-optimal powered landing with aerodynamic drag and non-convex constraints

M Szmuk, B Acikmese, AW Berning - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and …, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
In this paper we propose a successive convexification (SC) algorithm suitable for real-time
guidance applications of the fuel-optimal powered landing problem with aerodynamic drag …

Prevalence of superior semicircular canal dehiscence on high-resolution CT imaging in patients without vestibular or auditory abnormalities

AW Berning, K Arani… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Prior studies of radiologic superior semicircular canal
dehiscence have suggested that CT may overcall dehiscence. However, many of those studies …

Development of an undergraduate course in chemical laboratory safety through an academic/industrial collaboration

…, C Stoddard, PA Bell, AW Berning… - Journal of Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A 14 week undergraduate course on laboratory safety was developed at the University of
Pittsburgh. The first segment of the course consists of a series of lectures intended to increase …

Predicting K-12 dropout

RS Baker, AW Berning, SM Gowda… - Journal of Education …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Dropout remains a persistent challenge within high school education. In this paper, we
present a case study on automatically detecting whether a student is at-risk of dropout within a …

Assessing the effects of rearing environment, natural selection, and developmental stage on the emergence of a behavioral syndrome

…, P Cotter, F Armagost, JZ Chen, AW Berning… - Ethology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Although there is much interest in behavioral syndromes, very little is known about how
syndromes are generated in wild populations. Here, we assess the roles of correlated selection …

Sexual cannibalism is associated with female behavioural type, hunger state and increased hatching success

AW Berning, RDH Gadd, K Sweeney, L MacDonald… - Animal Behaviour, 2012 - Elsevier
Precopulatory sexual cannibalism may represent the most extreme form of sexual conflict
because it necessarily truncates the reproductive potential of the victim. Three of the most …

Rapid uncertainty propagation and chance‐constrained path planning for small unmanned aerial vehicles

AW Berning, A Girard, I Kolmanovsky… - Advanced Control for …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the number of small unmanned aircraft systems in the national airspace projected to
increase in the next few years, there is growing interest in a traffic management system …

Post-Flight Performance Analysis of Navigation and Advanced Guidance Algorithms on a Terrestrial Suborbital Rocket Flight

…, SR Bieniawski, L Strohl, AW Berning - AIAA SCITECH 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-0765.vid There is currently renewed
interest in robotic and crewed landers for a return to the lunar surface. Advanced guidance …

Suboptimal nonlinear model predictive control strategies for tracking near rectilinear halo orbits

AW Berning Jr, D Liao-McPherson, A Girard… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits (NRHOs), a subclass of halo orbits around the L1 and L2
Lagrange points, are promising candidates for future lunar gateways in cis-lunar space and as …

Chance-Constrained, Drift-Safe Guidance for Spacecraft Rendezvous

AW Berning Jr, ER Burnett, S Bieniawski - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.11077, 2024 - arxiv.org
A robust drift-safe rendezvous trajectory optimization tool is developed in this work, with
applications to orbital rendezvous and proximity operations. The method is based on direct …