Aerospace Engineering Brown Bag Lecture Series, ft Nicolas San Miguel and Austin Hatch

The March 19 Aerospace Engineering Brown Bag Lecture Series featured Nicolas San Miguel and Austin Hatch
Nicolas San Miguel presented, "Sensitivity and Robustness in the Control and Planning of UAVs with Temporal Logic Objectives"
Safe planning and control of multi-drone missions is an important problem for Urban Air Mobility, among other systems, where missions require an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to execute various tasks while satisfying spatial, temporal, and reactive requirements. This presentation will discuss the use of Signal Temporal Logic (STL) to describe the temporal requirements of a multi-UAV mission concisely and unambiguously and will discuss methods for the planning and control of a dynamically feasible vehicle trajectory that satisfies the specified requirements. The controller tracks a UAV along its trajectory with a bounded tracking error which is within a predetermined robustness margin. In addition, this talk discusses the characterization of the tracking error using sensitivity and robustness metrics.
Austin Hatch presented, "Creation and Exploration of an MDAO Environment for a Hypersonic Vehicle"
In recent years, the focus on the development of hypersonic vehicles has increased significantly. Though the hypersonic flight regime presents many unique challenges, it also presents a broad range of benefits ranging from reconnaissance to commercial flight. Some of the challenges concerning research in this area include a limited understanding of the highly interdependent physics as well as classified tools pertaining to hypersonic vehicles. In order to address these issues, this Grand Challenge project seeks to create a multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization (MDAO) environment for a hypersonic vehicle using low fidelity and unclassified data and tools.
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About the Series:
The Brown Bag Lecture Series is a tradition that gives select AE undergrads and grad students a unique opportunity to share their research before an audience that includes both their peers and their academic mentors and advisors.
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