Faculty Profiles

Ella M. Atkins
Division: CSE
Address: 3009 FXB
Phone: (734) 615-7456
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Degree: Ph.D. University of Michigan
Title: Professor; Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Ella Atkins' research integrates task and motion planning algorithms to enable opportunistic, fault-tolerant autonomous aircraft and spacecraft flight management. Projects include damage-adaptive flight management, coordination strategies for VTOL/STOL air traffic, and spacecraft burn planning to maximize science return. Hardware platforms for research and teaching include avionics-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), an autonomous planetary surface rover, and TableSat, a tabletop satellite simulator.
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence.
Areas of Specialty: Robotics.
Selected Projects: Optimal Joint Detection/Estimation in Fading Channels with Polynomial Complexity.
 
 
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