Aaron Simo is an associate member of the Mobility and Robotic Systems, Mobility and Manipulation group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California. He works on the Spacecraft Rover Engineering team (SCET), and is involved with characterizing the "slip" of the MER rovers.
CSU Northridge
BS - Applied Mathematics, 2002
MS - Applied Mathematics, 2005
Thesis: Statistical and Numerical applications in autonomous mobility for state estimation.
NASA/JPL: (June 2003 - Present)
Started off writing Unix scripts for Justin Maki on MER to querry the data base. (This is where I learned UNIX)
Research Task: Optics
Found the percentage of injected laser light into a bent fiber optic cable.
MER: R9-1 FSW V&V.
Did unit, and regression testing of the R9-1 flight software of the MER rovers.
MER: SLIP table construction
Gathered data on the MER testbed rovers to make a slip prediction model based on rover attitude.
State Estimation of autonomous vehicles based on mathematical modeling and programming.