Development Of Load Measurement Technique For Arbitrary Shapes, 2023 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Development Of Load Measurement Technique For Arbitrary Shapes, Quintin J. Cockrell
Master's Theses
Obtaining aerodynamic forces and moments about all three orthogonal axes for arbitrary shapes at arbitrary orientations in a fast manner via a measurement technique specific to Cal Poly’s low-speed wind tunnel to continually obtain the forces and moments under quasi-steady conditions is explored. A Continuous Rotation Technique (CR) uses a 6-DOF load cell and stepper motor to rotate an object about an axis for a complete rotation. The forces and moments acting upon the object pass through the stepper motor and interface plates and recorded by the load cell as the object is rotated continuously a finite number of rotations. …
Orbital Debris Mitigation: Exploring Cubesat Drag Sail Technology, 2023 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Orbital Debris Mitigation: Exploring Cubesat Drag Sail Technology, Robinson Raphael
Student Works
In an era marked by remarkable advancements in space exploration and research, the advent of satellite technology has contributed accordingly to the lives of people here on Earth. Through applications that tie into broadband connectivity, weather forecasting, disaster management, etc., the occupancy in orbital domains like Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) only continues to grow. However, the presence of orbital debris emerges as a significant concern, posing threats to both operational satellites and future space missions. Resulting as a consequence due to decades of activities since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, as more countries ventured into space so did the …
Development Of User Interface And Testing Harness, 2023 California State Polytechnic University - San Luis Obispo
Development Of User Interface And Testing Harness, Jacob Amezquita, William Albertini
College of Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Program
No abstract provided.
Neural Network Models For Generating Synthetic Flight Data, 2023 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Neural Network Models For Generating Synthetic Flight Data, Nathaniel Sisson
Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses
Flight test data is a valuable resource used in many aerospace applications. However, procuring a sufficiently large database of flight test data poses several challenges. Nominal flight tests can be expensive and time-consuming and require much post-processing depending on the availability of sensors and the quality of the sensor output. Flight test performed outside of nominal flight conditions, or flight tests in which failures are introduced, add to the inherent risk and danger associated with flight tests. The most popular alternative to flight test, numerical simulations, may fail to fully capture all non-linear behavior. While flight tests will always be …
Disc Golf Throwing Robot, 2023 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Disc Golf Throwing Robot, Nevada S. Schultz, Sydney M. Lewis, Erick Edmundo Daza, Rachel Alysse Greenberg, Peter M. Kean
Mechanical Engineering
Disc golf companies need better methods to test disc flight. The scope of this project is to create a disc throwing robot that can throw a disc golf driver 450-500 feet, with control over the speed, spin, and release angle. Research shows that multiple disc-throwing products exist; however, none meet the full requirements of this project. The Cal Poly senior project design team created a proof-of-concept machine. This prototype started as a two-wheel mechanism. Eventually, a third wheel was added, allowing for complete control over disc spin. The three-wheel prototype reached 62 mph when perfectly calibrated. The prototype is accurate, …
Enabling Premixed Hydrogen-Air Combustion For Aeroengines Via Laboratory Experiment Modeling, 2023 University of Tennessee Space Institute
Enabling Premixed Hydrogen-Air Combustion For Aeroengines Via Laboratory Experiment Modeling, Christopher James Caulfield
Masters Theses
All combustion systems from large scale power plants to the engines of cars to gas turbines in aircraft are looking for new fuel sources. Recently, clean energy for aviation has come into the foreground as an important issue due to the environment impacts of current combustion methods and fuels used. The aircraft industry is looking towards hydrogen as a new, powerful, and clean fuel of the future. However there are several engineering and scientific challenges to overcome before hydrogen can be deployed into the industry. These issues
range from storing the hydrogen in a viable cryogenic form for an aircraft …
Investigation Of Interplanetary Trajectories To Sedna, 2023 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Investigation Of Interplanetary Trajectories To Sedna, John W. Sarappo Iii, Samuel Brickley, Iliane Domenech, Lorenzo Franceschetti, James E. Lyne
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Utilizing The System Engineering Trade Study Analysis Method To Analyze Patient Aeromedical Evacuation, 2023 Air Force Institute of Technology
Utilizing The System Engineering Trade Study Analysis Method To Analyze Patient Aeromedical Evacuation, Sara Shaghaghi, Jeremy M. Slagley, Michael E. Miller, Gaiven Varshney
Faculty Publications
The US Air Force has gone through many aeromedical patient isolation transport system designs. The first designs were developed in response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. The trade study analysis part of the system engineering design method was used to analyze the historic and current aeromedical patient contamination control transport systems. A trade study is a process that evaluates alternatives based upon various “-ilities”, such as reconfigurability, flexibility, durability, cost, and more, and performs a systematic analysis to aid designers in producing a ‘good’ design alternative given the large set of possible solutions. …
Nonlinear Dynamics Analysis And Control Of Space Vehicles With Flexible Structures, 2023 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Nonlinear Dynamics Analysis And Control Of Space Vehicles With Flexible Structures, Marco Fagetti
Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses
Space vehicles that implement hardware such as antennas, solar panels, and other extended appendages necessary for their respective missions must consider the nonlinear rotational and vibrational dynamics of these flexible structures. Formulation and analysis of these flexible structures must account for the rigid-flexible coupling present in the system dynamics for stability analysis and control design. The system model is represented by a flexible appendage attached to a central rigid body, where the flexible appendage is modeled as a cantilevered Euler-Bernoulli beam. Discretization techniques, such as the assumed modes method and the finite element method, are used to model the coupled …
Spray Characterization Of An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle For Agricultural Spraying, 2023 Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Turkiye
Spray Characterization Of An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle For Agricultural Spraying, Eray Önler, Hasan Berk Özyurt, Mehmet Şener, Sezen Arat, Bülent Eker, İlker Hüseyin Çelen
The Philippine Agricultural Scientist
Sustainability and higher efficiency in crop production are possible with the use of new technologies. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) brings many advantages, both in terms of monitoring agricultural areas and pesticide applications, and allows for early disease and damage detection as well as its application in areas without access to conventional sprayers. This study established parameters for spraying with clean water using a DJI Agras 14 MG-1P (RTK) UAV. Droplet distribution and droplet analyses were examined in the experiments carried out at different heights (1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 m) and flow rates (10, 15, 20, 25, and …
A Deep Bilstm Machine Learning Method For Flight Delay Prediction Classification, 2023 Cranfield University
A Deep Bilstm Machine Learning Method For Flight Delay Prediction Classification, Desmond B. Bisandu Phd, Irene Moulitsas Phd
Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research
This paper proposes a classification approach for flight delays using Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models. Flight delays are a major issue in the airline industry, causing inconvenience to passengers and financial losses to airlines. The BiLSTM and LSTM models, powerful deep learning techniques, have shown promising results in a classification task. In this study, we collected a dataset from the United States (US) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of flight on-time performance information and used it to train and test the BiLSTM and LSTM models. We set three criteria for selecting highly important features …
Alternatives To Reducing Aviation Fuel-Burn With Technology: Fully Electric Autonomous Taxibot, 2023 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Alternatives To Reducing Aviation Fuel-Burn With Technology: Fully Electric Autonomous Taxibot, Denzil Neo
Student Works
Aircraft taxiing operations in the aerodrome were identified to consume the most jet fuel apart from the cruise phase of the flight. This was also well supported by various research associating taxi operations at large, congested airports, with high jet fuel consumption, high carbon emissions, and noise pollution. Existing literature recognised the potential to address the environmental issues of aerodrome taxi operations by operating External or Onboard Aircraft Ground Propulsion Systems (AGPS). Designed to power aircraft with sources other than their main engines, external Aircraft Ground Power Systems (AGPS) have shown the potential to significantly cut jet fuel consumption and …
Media Streaming In A High-Rate Delay Tolerant Network, 2023 The University of Akron
Media Streaming In A High-Rate Delay Tolerant Network, Kyle Vernyi
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Audio and video streaming across delay tolerant networks are relatively new phenomena. During the Apollo 11 mission, video and audio were streamed directly back to Earth using fully analog radios. This streaming capability atrophied over time. The gradual conversion to digital electronics contributed greatly to this. Additionally, 21st century space systems face the new requirement of interconnectedness. Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) attempts to solve this requirement by uniting traditional point to point links into a robust and dynamic network. However, DTN implementations present bottlenecks due to low performance. High-Rate Delay Tolerant Networking (HDTN) is a performance-optimized DTN implementation. This work …
The Impacts Of Advanced Avionics On Degraded Visual Environments, 2023 School of Engineering, Emirates Aviation University, Dubai, UAE
The Impacts Of Advanced Avionics On Degraded Visual Environments, Sultan Naseeb Harib Fairouz Mubarak, Anju Anna Jacob Dr
International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace
Degraded visual environments (DVE) such as brownout, sand storms, and night conditions are responsible for accidents and hence losses in the aviation industry. There is a need to develop avionic systems to support pilots when they encounter environmental conditions that compromise their visual capacity. This report discusses the effects of DVEs on aviation, expounds on the advanced avionic systems available and further elaborates how these systems are implemented in countering DVE conditions. The report recommends on how advanced avionics systems have been and are being implemented in aircrafts to support decisions made by pilots flying under degraded visual environments.
Development And Implementation Of A Novel Resonantly Ionized Photoemission Thermometry Technique For One-Dimensional Measurements, 2022 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Development And Implementation Of A Novel Resonantly Ionized Photoemission Thermometry Technique For One-Dimensional Measurements, Walker B. Mccord
Doctoral Dissertations
In this work, Resonantly Ionized Photoemission Thermometry (RIPT) is established and validated as a novel, non-intrusive, non-seeded, One-Dimensional (1D) line thermometry technique. The RIPT technique resonantly ionizes a target molecule via REMPI (Resonant Enhanced Multi-Photon Ionization) of selectively chosen rotational peaks within a resonant absorption band. Thus, efficiently ionizing and subsequently exciting local nitrogen molecules either by direct or indirect schemes. The excited nitrogen deexcites through photoemissions of the first negative band of N2+[molecular nitrogen], specifically near 390, 425, and 430nm [nanometers], that is then acquired as a 1D line signal. The signal strength at all transitions …
Gen. Thomas P. Stafford Looks At The Display In The Hallway At Stafford Elementary, 2022 Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Gen. Thomas P. Stafford Looks At The Display In The Hallway At Stafford Elementary, Weatherford Daily News
Articles
Gen. Thomas P. Stafford looks at the display in the hallway at Stafford Elementary, which is named in his honor. His two sons, Stas, right, and Michael look on.
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Gen. Thomas P. Stafford Elementary School And Weatherford Stafford Airport Terminal Dedications November 21 & 22, 2022, 2022 Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Gen. Thomas P. Stafford Elementary School And Weatherford Stafford Airport Terminal Dedications November 21 & 22, 2022, Weatherford Daily News
Articles
A collection of photos from the dedications of Stafford Elementary and Stafford Airport Terminal, seen in the November 23rd, 2022 issue of the Weatherford Daily News.
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Weatherford Stafford Airport Celebrates New Terminal, 2022 Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford Stafford Airport Celebrates New Terminal, Weatherford Daily News
Articles
The City of Weatherford and Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission will host a special public celebration and ribbon cutting of the new Weatherford Stafford Airport Terminal.
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Astronaut Snoopy’S 50-Plus Year History With Nasa, 2022 Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Astronaut Snoopy’S 50-Plus Year History With Nasa, Weatherford Daily News
Articles
"Unknown to many, Snoopy has been working with NASA since the late 1950s"
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New Schools Personal For Project Manager, 2022 Southwestern Oklahoma State University
New Schools Personal For Project Manager, Weatherford Daily News
Articles
Gen. Thomas P. Stafford Elementary started construction in 2020, having a hand in building Stafford Elementary and East Intermediate was personal for Project Manager Shawn Bonner.
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