Browsing Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE) by Title
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A 100-kg Class Titan Airplane Mission
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-06-26)The combination of low gravity and high density of Titan's atmosphere makes powered, aerodynamic flight on that Saturnian moon energetically more favorable than at any other known location in the Solar System. Titan also ... -
The 1st JPDO Continuous Descent Approach Workshop - Agenda
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006-01-19)Optimized Vertical Descent Profile - Near Term Implementation -
3D Obstacle Avoidance in Adversarial Environments for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2006-08)As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered for a wider variety of military and commercial applications, the ability to navigate autonomously in unknown and hazardous environments is increasingly vital to the ... -
3D Obstacle Detection Using a Single Camera
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 2009-08)This paper aims at detecting obstacles using a single camera in an unknown three dimensional world, for 3D motion of an unmanned air vehicle. Obstacle detection is a pre-requisite for collision-free motion of a UAV through ... -
3D-Path Arrival Management (3DPAM): Simulations and Field Tests
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3rd International Planetary Probe Workshop
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5th International planetary probe workshop
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6-DOF Nonlinear Simulation of Vision-based Formation Flight
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 2005-08)This paper presents an adaptive guidance and control law algorithm for implementation on a pair of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in a 6 DOF leader-follower formation flight simulation. The objective of the simulation ... -
A bi-Level framework for aircraft design uncertainty quantification and management
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-04-04)Aircraft design and development is a high-risk process. The recent obstacles with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Lockheed Martin F-35 show that the level of risk facing aircraft designers and manufactures has yet to be ... -
A combined feedback controller design for active vibration suppression
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-30)To prevent failure due to fatigue, especially in high-performance aircraft, there is a significant amount of interest in vibration suppression methods with a special focus on active vibration control methods. This thesis ... -
A combined global and local methodology for launch vehicle trajectory design-space exploration and optimization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04-09)Trajectory optimization is an important part of launch vehicle design and operation. With the high costs of launching payload into orbit, every pound that can be saved increases affordability. One way to save weight in ... -
A complex networks approach to designing resilient system-of-systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-11-09)This thesis develops a methodology for designing resilient system-of-systems (SoS) networks. This methodology includes a capability-based resilience assessment framework, used to quantify SoS resilience. A complex networks ... -
A computational approach for preliminary combustor design and gaseous emissions evaluations using a method for sparse kinetics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-15)Despite numerous advances in the fields of numerical computing and experimentation, the development of new gas turbine combustors continues to be an extremely costly endeavor. Contemporary aircraft engine component design ... -
A computational approach to situation awareness and mental models in aviation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-08-06)Although most modern, highly-computerized flight decks are known to be robust to small disturbances and failures, humans still play a crucial role in advanced decision making in off-nominal situations, and accidents still ... -
A computational model of engineering decision making
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-08-29)The research objective of this thesis is to formulate and demonstrate a computational framework for modeling the design decisions of engineers. This framework is intended to be descriptive in nature as opposed to prescriptive ... -
A conceptual level framework for wing box structural design and analysis using a physics-based approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-03-10)There are many challenges facing the aerospace industry that can be addressed with new concepts, technologies, and materials. However, current design methods make it difficult to include these new ideas early in the design ... -
A concurrent multiscale model for the thermomechanical response of polycrystalline materials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-12-09)The presented work establishes and implements a novel concurrent multiscale framework to predict the size-dependent thermomechanical response of engineering materials. As such, it focuses on determining the interactions ... -
A Controller Development Methodology Incorporating Unsteady, Coupled Aerodynamics and Flight Control Modeling for Atmospheric Entry Vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11-01)Atmospheric entry vehicle aerodynamics, flight dynamics, and control mechanisms are inherently coupled and unsteady. The state-of-the-art disciplinary models used for Mars entry vehicle simulation do not directly account ... -
A DATA-DRIVEN METHODOLOGY TO ANALYZE AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OPERATIONS WITHIN THE TERMINAL AIRSPACE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-10)Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems are the systems responsible for managing the operations of all aircraft within an airspace. In the past two decades, global modernization efforts have been underway to increase ATM ... -
A decision support framework for aircraft conceptual design in the presence of competition
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-17)Most conceptual design techniques for aircraft implicitly assume that the aircraft manufacturer operates in a monopoly. This is because these techniques do not directly account for the possible actions of a competitor. By ...