Irene Gregory

American aerospace engineer

Irene Michelle Gregory is an American aerospace engineer whose research involves control theory and its applications in the control of aircraft.[1] In works with Naira Hovakimyan and others, she has pioneered the use of L 1 {\displaystyle {\mathcal {L}}_{1}} adaptive control techniques in this application, which combine the protection against uncertain data or modeling errors of robust control with the fast estimation provided by adaptive control.[2] She works as senior technologist for advanced control theory and applications[1] in the NASA Engineering & Safety Center at the Langley Research Center.[3]

Education and career

Gregory studied aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning bachelor's and master's degrees there,[3] and has been working at the Langley Research Center since at least 1991.[4]

She completed a Ph.D. in Control and Dynamic Systems at the California Institute of Technology, in 2004.[3][5] Her doctoral dissertation, Design and Stability Analysis of an Integrated Controller for Highly Flexible Advanced Aircraft Utilizing the Novel Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion, was supervised by John Doyle.[6]

Recognition

Gregory was named as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2021.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Ostrower, Jon (July 10, 2016), "In pursuit of planes that think for themselves", The Wall Street Journal, retrieved 2023-08-15
  2. ^ Gudeman, Kim (July 21, 2010), Nice recovery! Pilots get help saving uncontrollable aircraft, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign Grainger College of Engineering, retrieved 2023-08-15
  3. ^ a b c "Irene Gregory", NASA Engineering & Safety Center, NASA, retrieved 2023-08-15
  4. ^ Shaughnessy, John D.; Gregory, Irene M. (December 1991), Trim Drag Reduction Concepts for Horizontal Takeoff Single-Stage-To-Orbit Vehicles (PDF), NASA Technical Memorandum, vol. 102687, retrieved 2023-08-15
  5. ^ Irene Gregory at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Gregory, Irene Michelle (2005), Design and Stability Analysis of an Integrated Controller for Highly Flexible Advanced Aircraft Utilizing the Novel Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion, California Institute of Technology, doi:10.7907/Y6B1-ZZ55
  7. ^ AIAA Fellow roster (PDF), AIAA, 2023, retrieved 2023-08-15
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