Browsing by Author "Benedict, Moble"
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Mainka, Grace Elizabeth (2023-03-08)Implementing particle image velocimetry (PIV) data collection in wind tunnel testing increases understanding of the model flow field by providing velocity field data, as compared to single-point velocity data produced by ...
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Kalkur, Prabhasa (2020-12-03)As robots and other intelligent agents move from simple environments to more complex, unstructured settings, modern deep reinforcement learning (RL) systems require an exponentially increasing number of samples for learning. ...
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Rogers, Cameron Tyler (2017-07-25)Small unmanned aircraft are being used in an increasing number of applications ranging from emergency response to parcel delivery. Many of these applications are benefited when employed as a multiple-vehicle operation. ...
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Halder, Atanu (2019-07-23)Present generation of hover-capable micro air vehicles (MAVs) based on conventional rotors have shown poor performance in terms of endurance (<15 minutes), agility, and disturbance-rejection capability. Developing next ...
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Lee, Bochan (2021-07-30)The current study focuses on developing an autonomous vertical flight aircraft ship landing system by directly automating the established Navy helicopter ship landing procedure. The central idea involves visually tracking ...
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Lu, Han-Hsun (2018-05-04)An online near real-time system identification system is developed for generating locally linear models of Small Unmanned Air Systems. Automated control surface excitation inputs consisting of doublets, triplets, and ...
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Kellen, Adam John (2019-03-18)This thesis discusses the optimization of a UAV-scale cycloidal rotors (or cyclorotor0 s) aerodynamic performance in hover through an extensive experimental parametric study and the development of a cyclocopter UAV. The ...
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Barnes, Justin David (2016-12-12)As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) begins to allow commercial Unmanned Aircraft (UA) flights in the United States, businesses and organizations of all types are exploring a wide variety of potential applications. ...
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Kim, Sunsoo (2020-08-17)In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found applications in many diverse fields encompassing commercial, civil, and military sectors. These applications include surveillance, search and rescue operations, ...
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Saj, Vishnu (2021-12-10)This study discusses a fully autonomous vertical flight aircraft ship landing procedure in presence of wind disturbances. The proposed study closely follows the established Navy helicopter ship landing procedure wherein ...
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Wilcox, Benjamin Jacob (2016-12-12)One explanation for wind turbine power degradation is insect roughness. Historical studies on insect-induced power degradation have used simulation methods which are either unrepresentative of actual insect roughness or ...
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Tadiparthi, Venkata Vaishna (2022-08-17)We study the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation as the means of modeling the evolution of the probability density function of state variables in stochastic dynamics. This is a partial differential equation which cannot be ...
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Saemi, Farid (2020-11-20)The following describes development of performance models for the battery, motor controller (electronic speed controller, or ESC), and brushless DC (BLDC) motor of small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) with a gross takeoff ...
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Wiley, Chase Brantley (2022-12-10)This thesis presents a complete structural design process of a rotor for a 250-kW dual rotor axial flux motor suited for single-aisle 150-200 passenger aircraft like the Boeing 737. The initial design space with geometric ...