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Kristi Morgansen received her BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University in 1993 and 1994, respectively, and an S.M. in Applied Mathematics in 1996, followed by a PhD in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 1999. Before joining the University of Washington, she was a postdoctoral scholar and senior research fellow in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. Morgansen joined the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics in the summer of 2002. Her research interests are centered on nonlinear systems, focusing on sensing and actuation integration, stability in switched systems with delays, and the incorporation of operational constraints and communication delays in the control of multi-vehicle systems. Her work covers applications in autonomous vehicle systems such as fixed-wing aircraft and underwater gliders, as well as bio-inspired systems including underwater propulsion and agile flight. She has produced significant results in estimation and path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles and has explored vorticity sensing, sensor placement in fixed-wing aircraft, and joint optimization in control and sensing within dynamical systems.
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