- Marcello Romano
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Associate Professor
Mail Code: MAE/Mr
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering &
Space Systems Academic Group
Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Monterey, CA 93943
Phone: 831-656-2885
Email: mromano (at) nps.edu
Web: sites.google.com/site/marcelloromanoweb/
- EDUCATION:
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PhD - Politecnico di Milano (Milan Polytechnic University), Italy, 2001
MS - Politecnico di Milano (Milan Polytechnic University), Italy, 1997
NPS EXPERIENCE:
- July 2010-Present: Associate Professor
- September 2004-July 2010: Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)
TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Spacecraft Dynamics, Guidance and Control
- Orbital Robotics
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
- Orbital Robotics
- Small Satellites Systems
AWARDS:
- GSEAS Merit Award for Research, 2010
- Award of Tenure at the Naval Postgraduate School, 2010
- Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2009
- Carl E. and Jessie W. Menneken Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, 2006
- US National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award, 2001, 2002, 2003
- Doctoral fellowship, Italian Government, from 1997 to 2001
- Studentship, European Centre for Particle Physics (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, Summer 1997
BOARDS/MEMBERSHIPS:
- Co-chairman, AIAA Space Automation and Robotics Technical Committee
- Member, AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Technical Committee
- Member, IEEE Space RoboticsTechnical Committee
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: (View an extended list)
- M.Romano, Exact Analytic Solution for the Rotation of a Rigid Body having Spherical Ellipsoid of Inertia and Subjected to a Constant Torque, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Volume 100, Number 3, pp. 181-189, March 2008.
- R. Bevilacqua, M. Romano, Rendezvous Maneuvers of Multiple Spacecraft Using Differential Drag under J2 Perturbation, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 1596-1607, November–December 2008.
- M.Romano, D.A. Friedman, T.J. Shay, Laboratory Experimentation of Autonomous Spacecraft Approach and Docking to a Collaborative Target, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 164-173, January-February 2007.
KEYWORDS/TECHNOLOGIES:
- Keywords: Orbital Robotics, On-board Autonomy, Laboratory Experimentation, Space Vehichles, Modeling and Simulation, Advanced Concepts, Attitude Dynamics and Control, CubeSats, Control Moment Gyroscopes, Space Systems
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