Irene Michelle Gregory is an American aerospace engineer whose research involves control theory and its applications in the control of aircraft.[1] In works with Naira Hovakimyan and others, she has pioneered the use of adaptive control techniques in this application, which combine the protection against uncertain data or modeling errors of robust control with the fast estimation provided by adaptive control.[2] She works as senior technologist for advanced control theory and applications[1] in the NASA Engineering & Safety Center at the Langley Research Center.[3]

Education and career

Gregory studied aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning bachelor's and master's degrees there,[3] and has been working at the Langley Research Center since at least 1991.[4]

She completed a Ph.D. in Control and Dynamic Systems at the California Institute of Technology, in 2004.[3][5] Her doctoral dissertation, Design and Stability Analysis of an Integrated Controller for Highly Flexible Advanced Aircraft Utilizing the Novel Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion, was supervised by John Doyle.[6]

Recognition

Gregory was named as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2021.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Ostrower, Jon (July 10, 2016), "In pursuit of planes that think for themselves", The Wall Street Journal, retrieved 2023-08-15
  2. ↑ Gudeman, Kim (July 21, 2010), Nice recovery! Pilots get help saving uncontrollable aircraft, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign Grainger College of Engineering, retrieved 2023-08-15
  3. 1 2 3 "Irene Gregory", NASA Engineering & Safety Center, NASA, retrieved 2023-08-15
  4. ↑ Shaughnessy, John D.; Gregory, Irene M. (December 1991), Trim Drag Reduction Concepts for Horizontal Takeoff Single-Stage-To-Orbit Vehicles (PDF), NASA Technical Memorandum, vol. 102687, retrieved 2023-08-15
  5. ↑ Irene Gregory at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ Gregory, Irene Michelle (2005), Design and Stability Analysis of an Integrated Controller for Highly Flexible Advanced Aircraft Utilizing the Novel Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion, California Institute of Technology, doi:10.7907/Y6B1-ZZ55
  7. ↑ AIAA Fellow roster (PDF), AIAA, 2023, retrieved 2023-08-15
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