Dr. Kyle Demars
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Missouri University of Science and Technology
United States of America
Biography
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2010); M.S.E., Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2007); B.S.As.E., Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2004) with High Honors; Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Missouri S&T, 2013-present.
Research Interest
Stochastic estimation and control theory; information theory; nonlinear uncertainty propagation and rectification; autonomous guidance, navigation, and control of aerospace vehicles; orbit determination, data association, conjunction assessment, and collision avoidance; attitude dynamics, determination, and control; autonomous sensor management; high-fidelity dynamical and observational modeling
Publications
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Renato Zanetti, Kyle J. DeMars, and Robert H. Bishop. Underweighting nonlinear measurements. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 33(5):1670–1675, September-October 2010.
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Kyle J. DeMars, Moriba K. Jah, and Paul W. Schumacher. Initial orbit determination using short-arc angle and angle rate data. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 48(3):2628–2637, July 2012.
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Thomas Kelecy, Moriba Jah, and Kyle DeMars. Application of a multiple hypothesis filter to near GEO high area-to-mass ratio space objects state estimation. Acta Astronautica, 81:435–444, 2012.
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Renato Zanetti and Kyle J. DeMars. Joseph formulation of unscented and quadrature filters with application to consider states. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (accepted).
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Kyle J. DeMars, Robert H. Bishop, and Moriba K. Jah. An entropy-based approach for uncertainty propagation of nonlinear dynamical systems. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (accepted).
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Kyle J. DeMars and Moriba K. Jah. A probabilistic approach to initial orbit determination via Gaussian mixture models. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (submitted).
