Joe Watkins

 

Permanent Military Professor

Mechanical Engineering Department

United States Naval Academy

590 Holloway Road

Annapolis, MD 21402-5042

(410) 293-6531

Fax (410) 293-3041

rwatkins@usna.edu

 

 

Education:                

Naval Postgraduate School,   (Sept 01-Dec 04)

Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation  "The Adaptive Control of Optical Beam Jitter"              

 

 

Naval Postgraduate School,  (Dec 88- Jun 91)

Masters of Science, Astronautical Engineering

 

                         

Auburn University,  (Jun 80 - Aug 83)

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering

                                        

                               

Research Areas:     

Adpative Control of Directed Energy Beams

Nuclear Engineering Research Initiative , Gen-IV

Active control of flexible structures

 

 

Professional Experience:     

Assistant Professor, U.S. Naval Academy (Jan. 05- Present)

Nuclear Submarine Officer, U.S. Navy, (Aug 83 - Sep 01)

 

 

Recent Publications:

 

“The Use of an LMS Filter in the Control of Optical Beam Jitter”, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 30, Number 4, July-August 2007 pp1116-1122

 

“Jitter Control of Space and Airborne Laser Beams”, 22nd AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference, May, 2004

 

“Optical Beam Jitter Control”, SPIE Conference on Free-Space Laser Communications Technologies, Jan, 2004

 

"Experimental Simulation of Attitude Control of Flexible Spacecraft", Proceedings for the 8th VPI&SU Symposium, Blacksburg VA, May, 1991, pp. 607-614