aaron cole ellertson
Senior Principal Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation
senior principal guidance navigation & control ( gnc ) engineer northrop grumman corporation
senior principal analyst control engineer guidance navigation & control ( gnc ) department northrop grumman space system . graduated massachusetts institute technology ( mit ) master science degree aeronautics astronautics , received bachelor science degree aerospace engineering georgia tech . specialize aerospace dynamic control , focus autonomous system .
Northrop Grumman Corporation
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Senior Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer and GPS/INS Navigation Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Directed Energy Programs.

8+ years of work experience in Guidance algorithms, GPS/INS Navigation, Kalman Filtering, Linear Analysis and Control System design, Sensor modeling, Monte Carlo Simulation analysis, and Flight Test support.

Previous:   Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems, Advanced Programs Division (APD) - Research and Development (R&D) of Flight Control Technology for aircraft, UAS, and missile systems. Responsible for the design, testing, and integration of GNC algorithms, air vehicle simulations, and flight software. 

Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Attitude Control Systems (ACS) Department - GNC and flight software design, testing, and validation for space systems. Simulation analysis of spacecraft system dynamics. Hardware in the Loop (HWIL) testing of mechanical actuators for space vehicles.
Redondo Beach, CA
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Senior Principal Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Aerospace Controls Laboratory (ACL) under Professor Jonathan P. How
Research interests: Autonomous path planning under uncertainty, rapidly-exploring random trees (RRT), cooperative control of multi-agent systems
Cambridge,MA
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Graduate Research Assistant
Draper Laboratory
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Autonomous guidance and robust trajectory planning for U.S. Army precision airdrop program. Developed and tested autonomous guidance algorithms including Chance Constrained Band-Limited Guidance (CC-BLG) and Chance Constrained Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees (CC-RRT). Designed and tested flight software in C/C++ and Java. Designed post-processing and flight simulation analysis scripts using MATLAB.
Cambridge,MA
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Draper Laboratory Fellow
Boeing
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Performed fault tree design and analysis for Boeing 702 commercial satellites. Improved heritage fault protection for future satellite programs as part of an Independent Research and Development (IR&D) initiative.
El Segundo, CA
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Flight Engineer - Autonomous Systems
Naval Research Laboratory
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Performed research and development (R&D) work for the DARPA Phoenix satellite servicing program. Responsible for testing and qualification of flight hardware for the JMAPS satellite program. Designed ground test configurations and supported the modeling of flight hardware for the MIS satellite program. Machined and manufactured test assemblies.
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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Spacecraft Mechanisms Engineer
Master's Degree
Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Bachelor's Degree
Aerospace Engineering
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Wind Uncertainty Modeling and Robust Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Parafoils
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
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Analytic Chance Constraints for the Robust Guidance of Autonomous Parafoils
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2016-1408
Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering
2011 Centennial Outstanding Junior in Aerospace Engineering Award
Georgia Tech President's Scholarship Program
2011-2012 Dr. E. Jo Baker Outstanding President's Scholar Award
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech President's Scholarship
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New Alexandria, VA
Kyle Coker
GNC Engineer at Northrop Grumman
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Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area
Javier Mencias Morante
ILS Engineer in QuEST Global Engineering
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Atlanta, GA
Jordan Manley
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Los Angeles, CA
Shawn Barkfelt
Feed System Engineer at USC Liquid Propulsion Laboratory (LPL)
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Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Matthew Moe
Currently seeking a position to further develop my career.
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Atlanta, GA
Hunter Voltz
B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology
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Simi Valley, CA
Kevin Schoonover
Vice President and General Manager at Frontier Aerospace Corporation
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Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Regan Sundius
Sport Saddle Expert & Territory Sales Representative for CWD Sellier
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Kent, WA
Henry Rook
Test Engineer at BLUE ORIGIN
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Los Angeles, CA
Ryan Horton
Project Engineer at Northrop Grumman
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El Segundo, CA
Travis Thorne
Electro-Optical Systems Engineer at The Aerospace Corporation
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Alpharetta, GA
Jeshua Jemson
Mechanical Engineer at BAE Systems
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Los Angeles, CA
Rebecca White
Student at University of Southern California
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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Hakim Lachnani
Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer at Northrop Grumman
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Hermosa Beach, CA
Josue "Josh" Tobar
Communications Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman
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Mansfield, TX
John Milton Andrews
Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer
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Columbia, MD
Nuno Filipe
Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer at Emergent Space Technologies, Inc. and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Bellevue, WA
Michael Barrucco
Guidance, Navigation, and Controls
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Los Angeles, CA
Anthony Gaudio
Engineer IV at Northrop Grumman Corporation
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