• Expanding Constrained Kinodynamic Path Planning Solutions through Recurrent Neural Networks 

  Shaffer, Joshua Allen (2019)

  Path planning for autonomous systems with the inclusion of environment and kinematic/dynamic constraints encompasses a broad range of methodologies, often providing trade-offs between computation speed and variety/types ...

• An Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) Aircraft 

  Ng, Wanyi (2019)

  The objective of this thesis is a comprehensive investigation of hydrogen fuel cells for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The primary drawback of battery powered eVTOL aircraft is their poor range ...

• Computational Aeroacoustics of Various Propeller Designs for eVTOL Applications 

  Passe, Bernadine (2019)

  An in-house CFD solver, GPU-Accelerated Rotorcraft Flow-Field (GARFIELD), was coupled to an acoustic code for a computational aeroacoustic framework to an- alyze low aspect ratio propellers in hover such as those found ...

• Drag and Noise Reduction of Flatback Airfoil by Span-wise Wavy Trailing Edge 

  Yang, SeungJoon (2019)

  The flatback airfoil is a promising idea for future large wind turbine blade structure design; however, it causes notable drag increase and low frequency tonal noise due to the presence of span-wise coherent standing flow ...

• Wing Kinematics, Deformations, and Aerodynamics of Dragonflies in Free Flight 

  Shumway, Nathan Matthew (2019)

  The development of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) has led researchers to study insects in order to better understand aerodynamic mechanisms and wing kinematics that achieve high performance flight at small scales. Dragonflies ...

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