Aerospace Control and Guidance Systems Committee

Announcements

You must first log in to access prior meeting presentations, register for a meeting, or nominate some for the Ward Award.

If you do not have a login account, or cannot remember the email address associated with your account, please click on the Application Form link below.

Login

Site Search

Search our site:

Upcoming Events

Photos

Meeting Highlights New!

Subcommittee S

Prior Meetings

Abstracts may be viewed by anyone. Presentations are only available to active members who have logged in.

Meeting 132
(coming soon)

Home

Ward Memorial Award

Planning Advisory Board

Downloads

Constitution and By-Laws

About

History

Contact Us

← Return to agenda

Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 113 - Englewood, Colorado - March 2014
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Research Institutions, Industry, and University Reports 4.2.2 Universities 4.2.2.3 University of Minnesota
Title	University of Minnesota
Presenter	Gary Balas
Available Downloads*	presentation
	Downloads are available to members who are logged in and either Active* or attended this meeting.
Abstract	The Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics department has six faculty in the systems and controls area. Balas is currently involved in research on aeroservoelastic control of aircraft with Tao Systems, System Technologies Inc, and NASA Dryden, development of nonlinear analysis techniques for aerospace vehicles, development of fault detection algorithms for low cost, safety-critical systems supported by NSF, modeling and control of supercavitating vehicles supported by ONR, and control of wind turbines supported by IREE. The Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics department has also developed a small UAV laboratory and flight test platform for testing of guidance, navigation and control algorithms.