The Compact Kinetic Energy Missile (CKEM) is currently being developed as the Army’s newest hypervelocity anti-tank missile. The project has recently transitioned from the Science and Technology Objective phase to the Advanced Technology Demonstration phase. Science and technology phase flight testing required the development of a miniature telemetry system for measuring the super sonic flight ...

This paper summarizes the development of a robotic system for the analysis of aircraft dynamics within and beyond the nominal flight envelope. The paper proposes the development of a parallel robot and its motion cueing algorithm to attain a reasonable workspace with adequate motion capabilities to facilitate the testing of aircraft stall and fault manoeuvrab...

Time of flight (TOF) cameras can guide surgical robots or provide soft tissue information for augmented reality in the medical field. In this study a method to automatically track the soft tissue envelope of a minimally invasive hip approach in a cadaver study is described. An algorithm for the TOF camera was developed and 30 measurements on 8 operational siti (direct anterior approach) were ca...

The emerging flight-by-wire and flight-by-light technologies increase the possibility of enabling and improving aircraft design with excellent handling qualities and performance across the flight envelope. As a result, it is desired to take into account the dynamic characteristics and automatic control capabilities at the early conceptual stage. In this paper, an integrated control-configured a...

An approach for computing worst-case flutter margins has been formulated in a robust stability framework. Uncertainty operators are included with a linear model to describe modeling errors and flight variations. The structured singular value, μ , computes a stability margin that directly accounts for these uncertainties. This approach introduces a new method of computing flutter margins and an ...