June 12, 2008
Makiko Okamoto, aerospace engineering graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, received a $10,000 Amelia Earhart Fellowship from Zonta International for her research on cooperative control problems of multi-agent systems. The fellowships are granted annually to women pursuing doctoral degrees in aerospace-related sciences and aerospace-related engineering. Okamoto’s research proposes new algorithms that achieve obstacle avoidance in unknown dynamic environments while the agents are performing cooperative tasks. Her supervising professor is Dr. Maruthi Akella, assistant professor of aerospace engineering.
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