Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL)
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Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory Publications [303]
Aerospace Systems Design Lab's published research results.
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Implementing the Digital Thread - A Proof-of-Concept
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-01-25)Current engineering processes are heavily document-centric, which can add time and cost to projects, limit data accessibility, and make it difficult to actively manage models and data consistency throughout the lifecycle ... -
Zero-Emission Regional Aviation in Sweden
(International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS), 2022-11)Regional air operations, which can be defined as the transportation of passengers using smaller aircraft over short distances, have been overlooked in recent years by airlines focusing on high volume and profitable routes ... -
Trajectory Energy Management Systems for eVTOL Vehicles: Modeling, Simulation and Testing
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022)The rise of electric aircraft propulsion methods, the increased use of automated and integrated flight control systems, and the envisioned use of personal Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) vehicles in urban environments ... -
Development of a Simulation Environment to Track Key Metrics to Support Trajectory Energy Management of Electric Aircraft
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07)Growing concerns worldwide about anthropogenic climate change are leading to significant research in ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Technologies are investigated to improve the overall energy efficiency of flying ... -
Modeling and Simulation of Novel Electric/Hybrid Electric Multicopter Architectures for Urban Air Mobility
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08)This paper introduces a dynamic simulation environment developed for novel multi-copter aircraft architectures. The development is motivated by the need to better understand the safety implications of architectural design ... -
Modeling Framework for Identification and Analysis of Key Metrics for Trajectory Energy Management of Electric Aircraft
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08)To prepare for the upcoming entry into service of electric and hybrid-electric aircraft, regulators may have to update or develop new regulations and standards to ensure safe operations of these new vehicles. To ensure ... -
Optimal Trajectory and En-Route Contingency Planning for Urban Air Mobility Considering Battery Energy Levels
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-06)Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an electric propelled, vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft envisioned for transporting passengers and goods within metropolitan areas. Planning UAM flights will not be easy as unexpected ... -
A Techno-Economic Approach to the Evaluation of Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Architectures at the Conceptual/Exploratory Design Phase
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-20)A new, revolutionary concept, capable of mitigating the impact of global aviation on the climate, is electrified propulsion-based aircraft configurations. However, the introduction of a new electric powertrain to the ... -
A METHODOLOGY FOR THE MODULARIZATION OF OPERATIONAL SCENARIOS FOR MODELLING AND SIMULATION
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-29)As military operating environments and potential global threats rapidly evolve, military planning processes required to maintain international security and national defense increase in complexity and involve unavoidable ... -
A Reduced Order Modeling Methodology for the Multidisciplinary Design Analysis of Hypersonic Aerial Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-26)Recent years have seen a significant increase in the demand for an advance and diverse fleet of hypersonic aerial systems. As computational power has increased, high-fidelity physics-based numerical analyses have emerged ... -
Sensitivity Analysis of the Overwing Nacelle Design Space
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2022-06-09)The overwing nacelle (OWN) concept refers to aircraft designs where the engine is installed above the wing. The OWN configuration offers several advantages over conventional underwing nacelle (UWN) vehicles, which include ... -
Conceptual Design of Boundary Layer Ingesting Aircraft Capturing Aero-Propulsive Coupling
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2022-03-01)The impacts of boundary layer ingestion on aircraft performance can be modeled using either a decoupled or a coupled approach. Several studies in literature have adopted the former, while some have shown differences between ... -
TOWARD A ROBUST COMPUTATIONAL SOLUTION FOR FORMAL VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION IN MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-02)The development of reliable, large complex systems depends on a systematic approach with well-established standards and practices. One of these standards is Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), which adopts an approach ... -
A Graph-Based Methodology for Model Inconsistency Identification and Robust Architecture Exploration and Analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)The rise in complexity in aircraft design and the move towards non-conventional architectures lead to errors discovered late when changes are costly. A leading cause is the distributed design with isolated but interdependent ... -
A Framework for Integrating Advanced Air Mobility Vehicle Development, Safety and Certification
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-28)As urbanization continues to grow world wide, cities are experiencing challenges dealing with the increases in pollution, congestion, and availability of public transportation. A new market in aviation, Advanced Air Mobility, ... -
Representative Data and Models for Complex Aerospace Systems Analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-28)Catalyzed by advances in data quantity and quality, effective and scalable algorithms, and high-performance computation, the data-intensive transformation is rapidly reframing the aerospace industry. The integration of ... -
Bayesian, Gradient-Free, and Multi-Fidelity Supervised Dimension Reduction Methods for Surrogate Modeling of Expensive Analyses with High-Dimensional Inputs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-20)Modern approaches to engineering design rely on decision-support tools such as design space exploration, engineering optimization, or uncertainty quantification, to make better-informed design decisions. Such approaches ... -
Ship and Naval Technology Trades-Offs for Science And Technology Investment Purposes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-01-14)Long-term naval planning has always been a challenge, but in recent years the difficulty has increased. The degradation of the security environment is leading toward a more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, ... -
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 ... -
RETROSPECTIVE AND EXPLORATORY ANALYSES FOR ENHANCING THE SAFETY OF ROTORCRAFT OPERATIONS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-13)From recent safety reports, the accident rates associated with helicopter operations have reached a plateau and even have an increasing trend. More attention needs to be directed to this domain, and it was suggested to ...
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