Amman- August 13, 2017
On Sunday 13th of August 2017 The School of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology hosted Dr. Ahmad Bani Younis to deliver a Lecture on “Computational Methods and Ground-Based Experiments for Space Operation.”
Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department at Khalifa University, Dr. Ahmad Bani Younis explained to the students that in order to conceiving and planning space missions, ground-based (robotics) experiments are required that combine theory with experimental hardware to reduce mission risks.
He added that risk reduction ground-based experiments provide anomaly resolution experiments in an operationally relevant environment, where they have recently developed a suitable approach to ground-based mobile platform technology that simultaneously permits large general motions and highly precise inertial and relative navigation and control, by building the Spacecraft Platform for Astronautic and Celestial Emulation (SPACE) laboratory.
This work combines both theory and experiment, including computational methods in Astrodynamics. Various basic and advanced methods have been explored in computational celestial mechanics for general N-body problems with arbitrary order perturbations in order to produce self-tuning, highly parallelizable and efficient algorithms.
Dr. Bani Younis completed his PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he still continues to serve as an adjunct faculty member, he is also the founder of the Spacecraft Platform for Astronautics & Celestial Emulation (SPACE) at Khalifa University, which is a unique 6DOF facility in the region.