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Author:: Berger, Tom
Title:: Handling Qualities Requirements and Control Design for High-Speed Rotorcraft
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Rotorcraft
Handling Qualities
Flight Control System
Control Laws
Tiltrotor
Compound Helicopter
File:: Download TomBerger-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Mark B. Tischler, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Chen, Zhouzhou
Title:: active stabilization of rotorcraft external slung loads in high speed flight using an active cargo hook
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Rotorcraft
Slung load
High-speed carriage
Active stabilization
Active cargo hook
Wind-tunnel test
System identification
Feedback control
Dynamic simulation
File:: Download AERSP_MS_Thesis_Zhouzhou_Chen.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Enciu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Botre, Mrunali
Title:: Rotorcraft noise prediction system validation and analysis for generating noise abatement procedures
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Rotorcraft
Acoustics
PSU-WOPWOP
Validation
File:: Download Dissertation.pdfDownload Appendices.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth Steven Brentner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Outside Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Farish, David
Title:: Large Eddy Simulations of Scaled Wind-Tunnel Experiments for Ship Airwake Analysis
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Large Eddy Simulations
LES
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD
Ship Airwake
Aerodynamics
Wind Tunnel Validation
File:: Download davidFarish-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Crouse, Jacob
Title:: Linear Model Predictive Control with Envelope Detection for Aerial Vehicle-Ship Intercept Scenarios
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: control systems
model predictive control
signal processing
ship motion
multirotor
digital control
optimal control
MATLAB
path planning
File:: Download JacobCrouse-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric N. Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Christoffel, Tyler T
Title:: Simulation of a Helicopter Operating in a Turbulent Airwake with Atmospheric Boundary Layer Effects
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Rotorcraft Simulation
CFD
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Aerospace Engineering
Turbulent Airwake
OpenFOAM
MATLAB
SIMULINK
File:: Download Tyler_Christoffel_ThesisFINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jules Washington Lindau, V, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Geng, Junyi
Title:: Control, Estimation and Planning for Coordinated Transport of a Slung Load By a Team of Aerial Robots
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Slung Load Transportation
Coordinated Control
Parameter Estimation
Trajectory Planning
UAV
Multi Robot
File:: Download Geng-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Uwazuruonye, Kaosisochi
Title:: Modeling Pilots' Visual Attention Using Enhanced Flight Vision Systems
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: pilot's visual attention
Enhanced flight vision system
machine learning
time series analysis
pilot's control behavior
low visibility
File:: Download Modeling_Pilots__Visual_Attention_Using_Enhanced_Flight_Vision_Systems.pdf
Committee Members:: Amy Ruth Pritchett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

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Author:: Reddington, Jacob
Title:: Design, Development, and Tuning of a Gimbaled Coaxial UAV
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
co-axial tilting-head rotor
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
flight test
File:: Download Design__Development__and_Tuning_of_a_Gimbaled_Coaxial_UAV_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Goldschmidt, Margalit Zipora
Title:: Design, Control, and Acoustics of a Marine Hydrokinetic Cycloturbine Vehicle
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: acoustics
marine hydrokinetic
cycloturbine
control
nonlinear
dynamics
File:: Download MargalitZGoldschmidtThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Lester Jonson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Outside Member
Michael Lester Jonson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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