Aerospace Systems

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Research Showcase:

The Indoor UAV research focuses on development, implementation and validation of new guidance and flight control strategies for small autonomous flight in enclosed indoor environment. The focus of research is not only to address issues from technological standpoint, but also ensure the system is built mostly out of commercial of the shelf components to maximize cost benefits, share the knowhow of design and development of hardware and software with researchers across the world with open source philosophy. The current specific areas of research are:
• Nonlinear robustness analysis of flight control laws
• Adaptive and nonlinear flight control algorithms development
• Uncertainty modeling, analysis and validation
• Fault detection and isolation
• Damaged aircraft modeling and analysis
Professors Gary Balas, Bernard Mettler, and Demoz Gebre-Egziabher are faculty members involved in the group. Click here for more info.

The faculty conducting research in aerospace systems are:

Gary J. Balas Professor and Department Head Ph.D, Aeronautics, Caltech	Aerospace control systems: experimental and theoretical
William L. Garrard Professor Ph.D., Engineering Mech., University of Texas-Austin	Dynamics and control of aerospace vehicles; stability and control of nonlinear systems; control of gas turbines; parachute dynamics.
Demoz Gebre-Egziabher Assistant Professor Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University.	Sensor fusion. Design of multi-sensor systems for navigation, guidance and control of aerospace vehicles. Global Position System (GPS). Inertial navigation. GPS-based precision landing systems.
Bernard Mettler Assistant Professor Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.	Autonomous guidance and control; trajectory planning; automated maneuvering; environment and task representation; system identification modelling.
Yiyuan Zhao Professor Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University	Guidance/control; optimization; dynamics; air-traffic management; rotorcraft flight trajectories

Research in Aerospace Systems: Summary of current projects.

Projects with web pages are listed below:

Y. Zhao

Air Traffic Control: Prediction and Simulation

G. Balas

UAV lab

Control System and Dynamical Systems Program

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