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Redesigned Aerospace Control System Platform For Laboratory Re-Purposing, Ryan W. Moskaluk Jun 2013

Redesigned Aerospace Control System Platform For Laboratory Re-Purposing, Ryan W. Moskaluk

Aerospace Engineering

This senior project encompasses using an aircraft model in conjunction with the 3' by 4' low speed wind tunnel at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The aircraft model is controlled through piezoelectric actuators embedded inside the flexible tail structure via a PID controller. The objective for this project is to demonstrate the effect of tuning the individual PID controller gains with the aircraft model inside the low speed wind tunnel and to create an easy to use graphical user interface for doing so.