{"621984":{"#nid":"621984","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Proposal by Benjamin Leon","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate \u0026amp; time:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;29 May 2019, from 10:00-11:00 am\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;MK 317\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Enabling Technologies for Autonomous Landing with Robotic Landing Gear\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERunways or prepared landing sites are not always available for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, such as rotorcraft. Unprepared or moving surfaces encompass situations that result in the rotorcraft coming to rest outside of its ideal roll and pitch specifications. Research and development into robotic landing gear (RLG) for rotorcraft provided a tool for these aircraft to land on completely unprepared surfaces by articulating the gear until it conforms to the surface below the aircraft. This work proposes the development of two RLG technology contributions for autonomous rotorcraft landings on static or moving surfaces using RLG. Namely, these two technologies are a low force large deformation force sensor form ground contact sensing and a discrete, real-time sensor fused RLG controller. These technologies will be transformative from previous RLG research because of their ability to increase autonomy, reliability, and applicability for fielded VTOL systems. Each technology is developed generally from first principles and applied to a crashworthy, cable-driven four-bar mechanism RLG on a commercial airframe. Simulations are then used to improve each technology\u0026rsquo;s design for the specific application, and experiments are conducted to show their performance and benefits. A series of ground and flight tests on the commercial airframe are proposed to support each technology\u0026rsquo;s contribution to autonomous, robust, and practical RLG.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee members:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Claudio V. Di Leo, Advisor\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ashish Bagai\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EbuGi Aero, LLC\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Julian J. Rimoli\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Jonathan Rogers\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. William Singhose\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Enabling Technologies for Autonomous Landing with Robotic Landing Gear"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2019-05-24 17:41:34","changed_gmt":"2019-05-24 17:41:34","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-05-29T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2019-05-29T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-05-29T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-05-29 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-05-29 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-05-29 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"102851","name":"Phd proposal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}