• Refined Performance and Loads of a Mach-Scale Rotor at High Advance Ratios 

  Trollinger, Lauren Nicole (2017)

  This work will investigate the performance and vibratory loads of a Mach-scale rotor with highly similar, non-instrumented blades at advance ratios (µ) up to 0.9. Wind tunnel tests were performed on a 4-bladed, articulated ...

• HAMSTRAN, AN INDIRECT METHOD TO CREATE ALL- QUADRILATERAL GRIDS FOR THE HAMSTR FLOW SOLVER 

  Zhu, Zihao (2017)

  HAMSTR is a newly developed flow solver that utilizes Hamiltonian paths and strand grids for three-dimensional flows on overset and hybrid meshes. In order to use HAMSTR, it is required that one has a decent all-quad surface ...

• GRAMIAN-AWARE CLOSED LOOP FLIGHT CONTROL DESIGN FOR ENERGY HARVESTING THROUGH MODULATING DISTURBANCE SENSITIVITY 

  Saxena, Utsav (2017)

  Many desired micro aerial vehicle missions are significantly larger than the mission endurance of the vehicles. Due to extreme constraints on size, weight and power available, small scale air vehicles are highly sensitive ...

• Sizing Tool for Quadrotor Biplane Tailsitter UAS 

  Strom, Eric (2017)

  The Quadrotor-Biplane-Tailsitter (QBT) configuration is the basis for a mechanically simplistic rotorcraft capable of both long-range, high-speed cruise as well as hovering flight. This work presents the development and ...

• Multi-target Detection, Tracking, and Data Association on Road Networks Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 

  Barkley, Brett Evan (2017)

  A cooperative detection and tracking algorithm for multiple targets constrained to a road network is presented for fixed-wing Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) with a finite field of view. Road networks of interest are formed ...

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