Joe Watkins
Associate Chairman, Permanent Military Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
United States Naval Academy
590 Holloway Road
Annapolis, MD 21402-5042
(410) 293-6504
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
