Continuing/ongoing Research

 

 

Areas: Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, Flight dynamics and controls, Bifurcation

theory, Aircraft auto-rotational behavior, Six DOF advanced simulation  

 

  • Technology development for long range/endurance, computer controlled fixed/flapping wing MAVs (Student/s: Vivek T)
  • Dynamics and control of irregular spin at high angles-of-attack (Student/s: Manish R Wankhede, Sreeshankar, Ramarao)
  • Bifurcation maps: a tool for constructing aircraft maneuvers using nonlinear control techniques (Student/s: Amit K Khatri)
  • Optimization of onboard counter measure system parameters (Student/s: Raghav Venkatesan)
  • Development of a continuation algorithm based software for aircraft design (Student/s: Chaitanya)
  • Quad-rotor dynamics and control (Student/s: Venkatesh Mondi)
  • Electrodynamic Tethered-Satellite-System (TSS) Dynamics with control input delays and uncertainties (Student/s: Madhavi