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Sara Susca

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 198-219
Pasadena, CA 91109

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818.354.6929

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818.393.5007
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Sara Susca

Member of Technical Staff

Biography

Sara Susca is currently a researcher in the Computer Vision for Surface Applications at JPL. Her current work focuses on sensor fusion and state estimation for both airborne and ground vehicles, and sub-arcsecond pointing stability of balloon borne telescopes.

Dr. Susca earned her PhD in the control and dynamical systems group at UC Santa Barbara.

Education

* PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, 2007
* MS in Electrical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, 2005
* Laurea in Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2002

Professional Experience

* Researcher in JPL's Computer Vision for Surface Applications, 12/2010 to present.
* Scientist in the Nav team at Honeywell, 2008 to 2010.
* Intern in the Nav group at Honeywell, summers of 2006 and 2007
* Visiting scholar at BioServe Space Technologies, 2001-2002

Research Interests

* state estimation
* fine pointing control algorithms

Publications

2012
  1. R. Brockers, S. Susca, D. Zhu, L. Matthies, "Fully Self-Contained Vision-Aided Navigation and Landing of a Micro Air Vehicle Independent from External Sensor Inputs," Proc. of SPIE 8387, 01 January 2012.