This paper describes one recent multi-year Capstone project in the Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MMET) Department at Arizona State University Polytechnic. Specifically, the project involves the design, development, construction, and testing of a prototype Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). After either an air or ground launch, this UAV will fly as a fixed wing aircraft, but it ...

Guidance and control of aircraft in the landing phase imposes extra pilot work loads, hence application of automatic landing control systems is of great importance. In this study automatic landing control systems are introduced and an optimal landing control system is designed. The control system performance criteria are based on minimum control effort. The designed system is simulated for a tr...

Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. Main reasons for batching are avoidance of set ups and/or facilitation of material handling. Examples of batch-wise production systems are ovens found in aircraft industry and in semiconductor manufacturing. Starting from the early nineties much research efforts have been put in constructing strategies for the d...

Relief maps are generally required for military purposes, land use and town planning works. These maps are generally prepared as solid blocks, and are hand made. Some difficulties and impossibilities due to sharp height differences may be inescapable in the course of production of these maps. Therefore; some exaggerations may have been done to get a smooth surface appearance. On the other hand,...

Rapid Prototyping has transitioned from only being able to produce delicate prototypes to being capable of producing robust production parts. As part of this transition, it has been renamed Additive Manufacturing (AM). As a true manufacturing technology, it has become important to deliberately design parts for Additive Manufacturing, and research has begun in how best to achieve this. This thes...

guidance and control of aircraft in the landing phase imposes extra pilot work loads, hence application of automatic landing control systems is of great importance. in this study automatic landing control systems are introduced and an optimal landing control system is designed. the control system performance criteria are based on minimum control effort. the designed system is simulated for a tr...