Michael States

Contact

state067[at]umn.edu

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Bio

Education: Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2025 - Present. Bachelor, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2025.

Professional Experience: Graduate Assistant, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2025 - Present. Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2023 - 2025.

Research Interests

I’m working on optimizing the trajectories of vehicles to obtain the most informative sensor measurements possible. This work lies at the intersection of guidance (trajectory design), and navigation (state estimation from measurements), and has applications in search-and-rescue, environmental monitoring, and autonomous landing of spacecraft.