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Publications

Rocket-Propelled Aircraft

Development of low-thrust solid rocket motors for small, fast aircraft propulsion

Matthew Vernacchia, Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020.
pdf available here

Development, modeling and testing of a slow-burning solid rocket propulsion system

Matthew Vernacchia, MS Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
pdf available here

Space Exploration

Strategies for reuse of launch vehicle first stages

Matthew Vernacchia, Kelly Mathesius, International Astronautical Congress, 2018.
pdf available here

Enabling deep space exploration with an in-space propellant depot supplied from lunar ice

Sophia Casanova, Jack Henry de Frahan, Vinicius Guimaraes Goecks, ... Matthew Vernacchia, ..., AIAA SPACE Forum, 2017.
DOI: 10.2514/6.2017-5376, pdf available here

The Lunarport concept, a launch and supply station for deep space missions

A comparative study of the two concepts elaborated at the 2017 Caltech Space Challenge. Jerome Gilleron, Danielle DeLatte, Donal O’Sullivan, Pádraig Lysandrou, Joseph Sparta, Gary Li, ... Matthew Vernacchia, ..., IAA Symposium on the Future of Space Exploration Towards the Moon Village & Beyond, 2017.

Robotics

Systems and methods for obtaining user command from gaze direction

Matthew Vernacchia, US Patent 8 723 798, 2014. link

Gesture-based robot control with variable autonomy from the JPL BioSleeve

Michael T Wolf, Christopher Assad, Matthew Vernacchia, Joshua Fromm, Henna L Jethani, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013.
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630718, pdf available here

Decoding static and dynamic arm and hand gestures from the JPL BioSleeve

Michael T Wolf, Christopher Assad, Adrian Stoica, Kisung You, Henna L Jethani, Matthew Vernacchia, Joshua Fromm, Yumi Iwashia, 2013.
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2013.6497171