Maj Timothy I. Machin, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

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Education

2023                Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Dissertation Title: Belief Space Planning for Alternative-Navigation in GNSS-denied Environments

(Advisor: Dr. Clark Taylor)

2016                MS, Electrical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, OH

Thesis Title: Real-time Implementation of Vision-aided Navigation for Small Fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Systems

(Advisor: Dr. John Racquet)

2014                B.S., Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Publications

Conference Publications

          Machin, T. I., & Leishman, R. C. (2022, June). Implementation of the Rapidly-exploring Random Belief Tree and Statistical Analysis of Functionality. In 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (pp. 427-433). IEEE.

          Machin, T., Raquet, J., Jacques, D., & Venable, D. (2016, September). Real-time implementation of vision-aided navigation for small fixed-wing unmanned aerial systems. In Proceedings of the 29th International Technical Meeting of The Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2016) (pp. 1305-1311).

          Bihl, T. J., Cox, C., & Machin, T. (2019, July). Towards a Taxonomy of Planning for Autonomous Systems. In 2019 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON) (pp. 74-79). IEEE.

Other Publications

Machin, T. I., & Qiao, L. (2013). Advanced Visualization Techniques of Hot-Jet Combustion of Lean and Ultra-Lean Substances.

Machin, T. I. (2016). Real-time implementation of vision-aided monocular navigation for small fixed-wing unmanned aerial systems.