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Hurtado, Johnny
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Currently Teaching
I traditionally teach AERO622 (Spacecraft Dynamics and Control), AERO628 (Advanced Spacecraft Dynamics and Control), AERO627 (Structural Dynamics), AERO310 (Junior-level Dynamics), and AERO211 (Sophomore-level Statics & Dynamics).
Office appointments can be arranged by email. (The drive-by is occasionally tolerated.)
Education
PhD - 1995 - Texas A&M, Aerospace Engineering
MS - 1991 - Texas A&M, Aerospace Engineering
BS - 1988 - San Diego State University, Aerospace Engineering
Areas of Interest
Theoretical Mechanics; Structural Dynamics; Cooperative Dynamics & Controls; Celestial Mechanics. See my personal webpage (http://aero.tamu.edu/people/hurtado/) for current research, teaching, student, and publication information.
Publications and Papers
2005 P. Singla, P., Henderson, T., Junkins, J., and Hurtado, J.E., “A Robust Nonlinear System Identification Algorithm using Orthogonal Polynomial Network,” 15th AAS/AIAA Spacefllight Mechanics Meeting, Copper Mountain, CO, January 23-27, 2005. 2005 Sinclair, A.J., Hurtado, J.E., and Junkins, J.L., “Kinematics of N-dimensional principal rotations,”15th AAS/AIAA Spacefllight Mechanics Meeting, Copper Mountain, CO, January 23-27, 2005. 2005 Sinclair*, A.J., and Hurtado, J.E., “Cayley kinematics and the Cayley form of dynamics equations”, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 461, No. 2055, pp. 761-781, March 08, 2005 2005 [EngNote] Hurtado, J.E., Robinett III, R.D., “Convergence of Newton’s Method via Lyapunov Analysis,” Journal of Guidance, Control, & Dynamics, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2005. 2005 Sinclair*, A.J., Hurtado, J.E., and Junkins, J.L., “Application of the Cayley Form to General Spacecraft Motion,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, (accepted pending revisions). 2005 Sinclair*, A.J., and Hurtado, J.E., “Minimum-Parameter Representations of N-Dimensional Principal Rotations,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, (accepted pending revisions). 2005 Applied Dynamic Programming for Optimization of Dynamical Systems, to be published by SIAM (2005) (with R.D. Robinett III, D.G. Wilson, and G.R. Eisler) 2004 Sinclair, A.J., and Hurtado, J.E., “Application of the Cayley Form to General Spacecraft Motion,” 14th AAS/AIAA Spacefllight Mechanics Meeting, Maui, February 8-12, 2004. 2004 Griffith, D.T., Sinclair, A.J., Turner, J.D., and Hurtado, J.E., “Automatic Generation and Integration of Equations of Motion by Operator Over-Loading Techniques,” 14th AAS/AIAA Spacefllight Mechanics Meeting, Maui, February 8-12, 2004. 2004 Hurtado, J.E., and Robinett III, R.D., “Cooperative Localization and Tracking of Time-Dependent Sources,” American Nuclear Society 10th International Conference on Robotics and Remote Systems for Hazardous Environments, Gainesville, March 28-31, 2004. 2004 Sinclair, A.J., and Hurtado, J.E., “Minimum-Parameter Representations of N-Dimensional Principal Rotations,” 6th International Conference on Dynamics and Control of Systems and Structures in Space, Riomaggiore, Italy, July 18-22, 2004. 2004 Sinclair A.J., Hurtado, J.E., and Junkins, J.L., “Investigations on the Use of the Cayley Form for Feedback Controller Design,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Providence, RI, August 16-19, 2004. 2004 Dohner, J.L., Eisler, G.R., Driessen, B.J, and Hurtado, J.E., “Cooperative Control of Vehicle Swarms for Acoustic Target Localization by Energy Flows,” Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 126, Issue 4, 2004, pp. 891-895. 2004 Robinett III, R.D., and Hurtado, J.E., “Stability and Control of Collective Systems”, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 39, 2004, pp. 43-55. 2004 Hurtado, J.E., “Hamel coefficients for the rotational motion of a rigid body”, The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 52, Nos. 1 and 2, January-June 2004. 2004 Hurtado, J.E., and Sinclair*, A.J., “Hamel coefficients for the rotational motion of an N-dimensional rigid body”, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 460, No. 2052, pp. 3613-3630, December 08, 2004. 2004 Hurtado, J.E., Robinett III, R.D., Dohrmann, C.R., and Goldsmith, S.Y., “Decentralized Control for a Swarm of Vehicles Performing Source Localization,” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 41, 2004, pp.1-18. 2003 Sinclair, A.J., Henderson, T.A., Hurtado, J.E., and Junkins, J.L., “Development of Spacecraft Orbit Determination and Navigation Using Solar Doppler Shift,” Paper 03-159, Thirteenth AAS/AIAA Space Mechanics Flight Conference, Ponce, Puerto Rico, February 9-13, 2003. 2003 Hurtado, J.E., “Hamel Coefficients for Rigid-Body Motion,” AAS John Junkins Symposium, College Station, TX, May 23-24, 2003. 2003 Henderson, T.A., Pollock, T.C., Sinclair, A.J., Theisinger, J.E., Hurtado, J.E., and Junkins, J.L., “Hardware Development and Measurements of Solar Doppler Shift for Spacecraft Orbit Determination,” Paper 03-613, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, Montana, August 3-7, 2003. 2002 Eisler, G.R., Dohner, J.L., Driessen, B.J, and Hurtado, J.E., “Cooperative Control of Vehicle Swarms for Acoustic Target Recognition by Measurement of Energy Flows,” Fifth International Symposium on Technology and the Mine Problem, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, April 22-25, 2002. 2002 Hurtado, J.E., “Vibrational Characteristics of an Outrageously Long, Incredibly Weak, Rotating Flexible Beam,” USNCTAM14, Fourteenth U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Blacksburg, VA, June 23-28, 2002. 2002 Byrne, R.H., Adkins, D.R., Eskridge, S.E., Harrington, J.J., Heller, E.J., and Hurtado, J.E., “Miniature Mobile Robots for Plume Tracking and Source Localization,” Journal of Micromechatronics, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2002, pp. 253-261. 2000 Hurtado, J.E., “Paul Bunyan’s Brachistochrone and Tautochrone,” R.H. Battin Astrodynamics Symposium, College Station, TX, paper 00-256, March 2000. 2000 Hurtado, J.E., Byrne, R.H., Eskridge, S.E., and Harrington, J.J., “Miniature Mobile Robots for Plume Tracking and Source Localization Research,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), San Francisco, CA, April 2000. 2000 Hurtado, J.E., “Paul Bunyan’s Brachistochrone and Tautochrone,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 48, Nos. 2 and 3, 2000, pp. 207-224. 1999 Parker, G., Groom, K., Hurtado, J., Feddema, J., Robinett, R., and Leban, F., “Experimental verification of a command shaping boom crane control system,” IEEE Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, 1999, pp. 86-90. 1999 Parker, G., Groom, K., Hurtado, J., Robinett, R., and Leban, F., “Command shaping boom crane control system with nonlinear inputs,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Kohala Coast, HI, Vol. 2, 1999, pp. 1774-78. 1998 Rumsey, M.A., Hurtado, J.E., Hansche, B.D., Simmermacher, T.W., Carne, T.G., and Gross, E., “In-Field Use of a Laser Doppler Vibrometer on a Wind Turbine Blade,” ASME/AIAA Wind Energy Symposium, Reno, NV, January 1998. 1998 Hurtado, J.E., Field, R.V. Jr., and Carne, T.G., “Analytical and Experimental Assessment of Heavy Truck Ride,” Proceedings of the 16th International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC), Santa Barbara, CA, February 1998, pp. 965-972. 1998 Hurtado, J.E., Robinett, R.D., Dohrmann, C.R., and Goldsmith, S.Y., “Distributed Sensing and Cooperating Control for Swarms of Robotic Vehicles,” International Conference on Control and Applications sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Honolulu, HI, paper 288-074, August 1998. 1998 Rumsey, M.A., Hurtado, J.E., Hansche, B.D., Simmermacher, T.W., and Carne, T.G., “In-Field Monitoring of Wind Turbines,” Sound and Vibration, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1998, pp. 14-19. 1998 [EngNote] Hurtado, J.E., and Junkins, J.L., “Optimal Near-Minimum-Time Control,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1998, pp. 172-173. 1997 Hurtado, J.E., “Path Planning and Control for Planar Multibody Systems Using Internal Controls,” Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Symposium, Reno, NV, AIAA paper 97-0789, January 1997. 1997 Field, R.V. Jr., Hurtado, J.E., Carne, T.G., and Dohrmann, C.R., “Structural Dynamics Modeling and Testing of the Department of Energy Tractor/Trailer Combination,” Proceedings of the 15th International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC), Orlando, FL, February 1997, pp. 1994-2000. 1997 Ferrar, C., Doebling S.W., Duffey, T.A., Hunter, N.F., Simmermacher, T.W., James, G.H., and Hurtado, J.E., “Structural Health Monitoring Activities at National Laboratories,” International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA, September 1997. 1997 Simmermacher, T.W., James, G.H., and Hurtado, J.E., “Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbines,” International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA, September 1997. 1997 Simmermacher, T.W., James, G.H., and Hurtado, J.E., “Operational Evaluation of Structural Systems,” International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA, September 1997. 1996 Hurtado, J.E., and Junkins, J.L., “Optimal Control for Holonomic and Pfaffian Nonholonomic Systems,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Diego, CA, AIAA paper 96-3885, July 1996. 1995 Hurtado, J.E., and Junkins, J.L., “Optimal Control of Natural Second Order Systems,” Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, New Orleans, LA, AIAA paper 95-1238, April 1995. 1994 Hurtado, J.E., and Junkins, J.L., “Cooperative Control of Multi-Robot Manipulator Systems,” Society of Engineering Sciences Mtg., College Station, TX, October 1994. 1992 Hurtado, J.E., Rahman, Z.H., and Junkins, J.L., “Vibration Suppression for a Planar Flexible Grid: Analysis and Experiments,” Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Dallas, TX, AIAA paper 92-2317, April 1992. 1991 Junkins, J.L., and Hurtado, J.E., “An Analytical and Experimental Study of Flexible Structure State Estimation and Vibration Suppression,” ComCon Conference, Victoria, B.C., Canada, October 1991. 0 Higher Dimensional Rotational and Theoretical Mechanics, Hurtado, J.E. and Sinclair, A.J., research monograph, in review, Elsevier.
