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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

Monday, December 11, 2017 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium

Carolin Frueh

"Enabling Informed Engineering Decisions in Near Earth Space"

ABSTRACT -- Space faring has always been accompanied with the wish for high automation to alleviate the problem of limited communication windows and time-delayed remote commanding. Recent technological advances are making cheap sensors and faster ground and space based computing readily available, which opens the door for fully automated decision making on many levels. At the same time, the question remains how to transform the sensor driven big data problem into a big-knowledge solution.

This talk outlines how in space engineering, via the examples of on board navigation and space traffic management, new solutions can be found in trying to escape the limiting boundaries of specific methodologies, but to follow an approach to best mimic the true structure of the underlying reality aiming for the bigger picture.

SPEAKER -- Dr. Carolin Frueh is an assistant professor at Purdue University in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. Her research interests are Space Situational Awareness, object characterization and astrodynamics, sensor fusion and information retrieval, and satellite navigation.

Dr. Frueh holds a PhD in physics, with a specialization in astronomy, from the University of Bern in Switzerland. After earning her PhD, she served as a National Research Council Postdoc with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base and as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. She then served as a research scientist at Texas A & M University.


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