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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 93 - Colorado Springs - March 2004
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, INDUSTRY AND UNIVERSITY REPORTS 4.2.1 Universities 4.2.1.3 University of Minnesota
Title	University of Minnesota
Presenter	Gary Balas
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Abstract	The Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics department at the University of Minnesota has four faculty working the in the systems area and are currently searching for one additional faculty in that area. Professor William Garrard is the Department Head and his research interests include modeling, flight control and parachutes. Professor Yiyuan Zhao research concerns optimization, air traffic control and optimally trajectories for rotorcraft. Professor Demoz Gebre-Egziabher research focuses on navigation, GPS and sensor fusion and Professor Gary Balas is working in the areas of robust control, real-time embedded systems and aircraft flight control. Current work by my group in support of the DARPA Software Enabled Control program was presented. We are currently integrating towards the receding horizon control (RHC) algorithms developed under the SEC program into the OCP for flight test on the Boeing T-33 aircraft in June 2004. Part of algorithms we have developed include a RHC API. This is a software interface for the OCP that provides a real-time RHC anytime implementation of the control algorithms. Prof. Balas thanked the all the ACGSC committee member for their help in his presentation at the 2003 European Control Conference entitled Flight Control Law Design: An Industry Perspective (available at http://www.aem.umn.edu/people/faculty/bio/balas.shtml) ask for their help on another talk he will give at a Delft Technical University, Systems and Control: Challenges in the 21st Century program entitled The Future of Aerospace Control: Opportunities and Challenges.