Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL)
Mission
Formulate, develop, and implement comprehensive approaches to the design of affordable and high quality complex systems, emphasizing:
- System breadth and disciplinary depth
- Inclusion of uncertainty and risk
- Integrated Product and Process Development
- Concurrent Engineering and Multidisciplinary aspects
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Aerospace Systems Design Lab Publications [273]
Aerospace Systems Design Lab's published research results.
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Knowledge Discovery Within ADS-B Data from Routine Helicopter Tour Operations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)Knowledge discovery or data mining techniques are widely used for anomaly detection in the commercial aviation domain to retrospectively improve operational safety. However, in the general aviation domain, especially for ... -
Differential Dynamic Programming to Critical-Engine-Inoperative Takeoff Certification Analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)Critical-engine-inoperative (CEI) takeoff is a required flight test in transport aircraft type certification. Due to the limited excess power following engine failure, this flight test is potentially dangerous and highly ... -
Development of a Multi-Fidelity Reduced-Order Model Based on Manifold Alignment
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)This work presents the development of a novel multi-fidelity, parametric, and non-intrusive Reduced Order Modeling~(ROM) method to tackle the problem of achieving an acceptable predictive accuracy under a limited computational ... -
An Approach for Fan Stage Conceptual Design with Non-Axisymmetric Stators in Presence of Distortion
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)Advances in the study of distortion warrant the consideration of non-axisymmetric flow field impacts on fan designs. The lack of a method that considers such impacts in early design motivates this work. An approach to ... -
Conceptual Level Optimization of a Fan Stage Under Distortion Considering Aero-structural Constraints
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)Rotor blades experience unsteady forces and aerodynamic losses when operating in a distorted inflow. The structural analysis of rotors under these conditions, therefore, is of prime importance during the early design phase. ... -
Dimensionality Reduction Techniques Applied to the Design of Hypersonic Aerial Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)This study presents a methodology for the use of parametric Reduced Order Modeling (ROM) techniques to generate predictive models of hypersonic aerodynamic flow fields. The goal of this study is to synthesize a methodology ... -
Dynamic Simulation of Vehicle Maneuvers for Loads Analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)Testing critical loads during specific dynamic maneuvers is essential to aircraft structural design, and several such dynamic load cases must be demonstrated during the certification process. A simulation capability is ... -
A Certification-Driven Platform for Multidisciplinary Design Space Exploration in Airframe Early Preliminary Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)Following the conceptual phase of aircraft design, sizing and performance estimations shift from historical-based empirical equations to physics-based simulations. The initial aircraft configuration is refined with a larger ... -
A Data-Driven Approach using Machine Learning to Enable Real-Time Flight Path Planning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)As aviation traffic continues to grow, most airlines are concerned about flight delays, which increase operating costs for the airlines. Since most delays are caused by weather, pilots and flight dispatchers typically ... -
Optimal Siting of Sub-Urban Air Mobility (sUAM) Ground Architectures using Network Flow Formulation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)Air Mobility (AM) operating models have steadily made their way into public conscience over the past decade due to increased research activity pioneered by large technology corporations such as Uber and Amazon. Estimates ... -
A Model-Based Aircraft Certification Framework for Normal Category Airplanes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)A typical aircraft certification process consists of obtaining a type, production, airworthiness, and continued airworthiness certificate. During this process, a type certification plan is created that includes the intended ... -
A Methodology for Supersonic Commercial Market Estimation and Environmental Impact Evaluation (Part II)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)With the increasing research efforts in civil supersonic transport (SST) during the past decade, companies like Boom and Aerion are making the comeback of civil supersonic flight more promising than ever. Both companies ... -
Strategies for integrating models of interdependent subsystems of complex system-of-systems products
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006)The Office of Naval Research has established a need for improved design and analysis methods for the next generation of naval surface combatants. The Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) has initiated the Integrated ... -
A Method for Simultaneous Optimization of Power Management Schedule and Flight Trajectory for Hybrid Electric Aircrafts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-05)The aviation industry relies on a diverse set of objectives to operate at optimal efficiency and profitability. Two of these objectives include reducing emissions and generating optimal flight trajectories. There is ... -
Development of A Certification Module for Early Aircraft Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-06)The airworthiness certification process of civil transportation aircraft is expensive, timeconsuming, and subject to uncertainty. To reduce the cost and time spent on the certification process, this paper proposes an ... -
Integrated Sizing and Optimization of HybridWing Body Aircraft in Conceptual Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-06)The hybrid wing body (HWB) configuration is a paradigm shift in commercial transport aircraft design in terms of environmentally responsible characteristics and significant performance improvements over the conventional ... -
Power optimized battery swap and recharge strategies for electric aircraft operations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06)Electric propulsion for commuter air transportation is becoming promising because of significant strides in battery specific energy and motor specific power. Energy storage and rapid battery recharge remain nonetheless ... -
Exploring the Design Space of an Electric Ship using a Probabilistic Technology Evaluation Methodology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-08)With the advent of new technologies for electric ships, there is a need for a robust methodology to quantitatively evaluate their impact on the performance of a ship, while accounting for the uncertain nature of their ... -
A Model-Based System Engineering Approach to Normal Category Airplane Airworthiness Certification
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-06)Airworthiness certification is to ensure the safety of aircraft. With the surge in novel general aviation aircraft configurations and technologies, the Federal Aviation Administration replaced prescriptive design requirements ... -
A Bayesian Safety Assessment Methodology for Novel Aircraft Architectures and Technologies using Continuous FHA
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-06)Novel architectures and technologies carry with them an uncertainty related to their reliability and associated safety risk. Existing safety assessment methods involve determining the severity of discrete functional failure ...
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