Johnny Hurtado

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birth_date = May 15, 1962
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field = Aerospace Engineering
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alma_mater = Texas A&M University
doctoral_advisor = John Junkins
doctoral_students = Andrew Sinclair
known_for = Dynamics and Control
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John E. Hurtado (born May 15 1962) is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University specializing in spacecraft dynamics and control. He is married to wife Diane, and has two children, Francisco ('Cisco') and Catarina ('Cat').

Education

Hurtado received a B.S. from San Diego State University (SDSU) in 1988. He did his graduate work at Texas A&M University, advised by John Junkins. He received an M.S. in 1991 with thesis research in vibration of structures, and a PhD in 1995 on optimal control of constrained dynamical systems.

Employment

Upon graduation form Texas A&M, Hurtado was a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque. From 1995 to 1997, he was a member in Experimental Structural Dynamics, and from 1997 to 2001 in Intelligent Systems, Sensors, and Controls. During his time at Sandia he obtained 3 U.S. Patents with his colleagues on cooperative control of mobile robots and distributed optimization methods. He also co-authored "Applied Dynamic Programming for Optimization of Dynamical Systems" with colleagues at Sandia.

Since 2001 Hurtado has been a professor at Texas A&M University, teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses in engineering and Dynamics & Control. His research interests include multi-dimensional dynamics and control.

Professional work

Hurtado has published some 47 conference papers, 20 journal articles, authored 3 books, and holds 3 patents. His articles have been published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series", "Journal of Astronautical Science", the "Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics", and the "Journal of Guidance, Control, & Dynamics".

Students

Hurtado's first PhD student, Andrew Sinclair, is an assistant professor at Auburn University. His second PhD student, Rajnish Sharma, is an assistant professor at University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Other students have gone on to work for various companies in the aerospace industry, such as Odyssey Space Research, USA, and Sandia, and NASA.

Bibliography

Books

*Rush D. Robinett, David G. Wilson, G. Richard Eisler, John E. Hurtado, "Applied Dynamic Programming For Optimization Of Dynamical Systems", Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematic, July, 2005. ISBN 0898715865
*"Kinematic and Kinetic Principles", Lulu.com, 2007.
*"A Kinematics and Kinetics Primer", Lulu.com, 2008.

Book Chapters

*"Hamel Coefficients for the Rotational Motion of a Rigid Body", in Hanspeter Schaub and John Junkins, "Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems", AIAA, Virginia, 2003. ISBN 1-56347-563-4

US Patents

*Patent US 6,408,226 B1, June 18, 2002, "Cooperative System and Method Using Mobile Robots for Testing a Cooperative Search Controller", R.H. Byrne, J.J. Harrington, S.E. Eskridge, J.E. Hurtado
*Patent US 6,577,906 B1, June 10, 2003, "Distributed Optimization System and Method", J.E. Hurtado, C.R. Dohrmann, and R.D. Robinett III
*Patent US 6,687,571, February 3, 2004, "Cooperating Mobile Robots", R.H. Byrne, J.J. Harrington, S.E. Eskridge, J.E. Hurtado

External links

* [http://aero.tamu.edu/people/hurtado/ Hurtado's personal webpage]
* [http://aero.tamu.edu/people/hurtado/journal.html Hurtado's Journal publications]
* [http://aero.tamu.edu Texas A&M University Aerospace Engineering website]
* [http://www.sandia.gov Sandia National Labs]