Aerospace Engineering Brown Bag Lecture Series, ft Taylor Kate Boyett and Sabina Maranto

The June 25 Aerospace Engineering Brown Bag Lecture Series featured Taylor Kate Boyett and Sabina Maranto.
Taylor Kate Boyett presented, "Design Exploration of a Slotted Airfoil Concept at Low-Speed, High-Lift Conditions"
During my internship at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center, I was able to work with a small team of engineers in the Configuration Aerodynamics Branch. The focus of my internship was exploring, understanding, and analyzing a slotted airfoil using a suite of Computational Fluid Dynamics tools. My main objective was to identify, based on the lift coefficient and pressure distribution data, the optimum configuration of leading- and trailing-edge devices for the slotted airfoil at low-speed, high-lift conditions. This was accomplished by reviewing technical papers on the subject, becoming familiar with the software, and performing parametric studies using the CDISC design software to make changes to the shape of the airfoil. Once completed, I used the data and information collected to identify a set of design rules that would consistently yield the optimum performance. These findings were then compiled into a presentation to be shown at the conclusion of my internship.
Sabina Maranto presented, "Validation of the Gravity Offset Compensator for Off-Nominal Orientation of Chaser Spacecraft for Rendezvous and Proximity "
The purpose of this study was to validate the Gravity Offset Compensator Model which adjusts for the floor level gradients along the ASTROS test platform site. The Gravity Offset Compensator Model was developed by previous researcher Kunal Gangolli. It had not been fully implemented into Simulink or fully validated with experimental data for comparison with the model. This research implements the gravity model into the controls and simulated models of highly sensitive robotic systems COSMOS and ASTROS. Several experimental validation methods were used to test the gravity model. Two free-floating experiments were created to test simulated controls against real-world data. However, neither of these methods were sufficient for validation. For the smaller robot COSMOS, deep scratches in the floor, which were not modeled by the gravity model, forced the robot to move in unpredicted ways which did not enable the researcher to determine the validity of the gravity model. For the larger robot ASTROS less influenced by the floor scratches, the implementation of the gravity model could not have been completed in time due to hardware issues. Instead, the researcher prepared a future validation experiment for when ASTROS is ready.
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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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