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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 105 - Lake Tahoe - March 2010
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.1 Government Agencies Summary Reports 4.1.4 NASA 4.1.4.3 Glenn
Title	Glenn
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Abstract	With the increased emphasis on aircraft safety, enhanced performance and affordability, and the need to reduce the environmental impact of aircraft, there are many new challenges being faced by the designers of aircraft propulsion systems. Also the propulsion systems required to enable the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Vision for Space Exploration in an affordable manner will need to have high reliability, safety and autonomous operation capability. The Controls and Dynamics Branch at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland, Ohio, is leading and participating in various projects in partnership with other organizations within GRC and across NASA, the U.S. aerospace industry, and academia to develop advanced controls and health management technologies that will help meet these challenges through the concept of Intelligent Propulsion Systems. This presentation describes some of the key current activities of the Controls and Dynamics Branch (CDB) under the NASA Aeronautics Research and Exploration Systems Missions. The programmatic structure of the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission is briefly discussed and changed planned in the president’s FY11 budget for NASA are overviewed. The activities covered in the presentation include: i) GRC research in Distributed Engine Control under the Subsonic Fixed Wing project of the Fundamental Aeronautics Program; ii) Research on enhanced thrust response to have the engine perform as an effective flight control effector during emergencies being conducted under the Integrated Resilient Aircraft Control project of the Aviation Safety Program; iii) Development of a baseline engine simulation for a 40K lb thrust class engine to support advanced control and diagnostics research; and iv) Proof of concept studies to demonstrate the use of and build confidence in using analytical sensor redundancy for sensor data validation for systems representative of launch vehicle propulsion elements.