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ACGS Committee Meeting 109 - Salt Lake City - March 2012

Agenda

1 SHORT COURSE: AIRCRAFT SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION – THEORY AND PRACTICE

2 PLANNING ADVISORY BOARD MEETING

3 REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

4 GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING

5 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION
     5.1 Government Agencies Summary Reports
          5.1.1 DoD
               5.1.1.1 AFDD (Army) Mark Tischler
               5.1.1.2 AFRL Dave Doman
          5.1.2 NASA
               5.1.2.1 Langley Carey Buttrill
               5.1.2.2 Glenn Sanjay Garg
               5.1.2.3 Engineering & Safety Center Ken Lebsock
               5.1.2.4 Dryden Steve Jacobson
     5.2 Research Institutions, Industry, and University Reports
          5.2.1 Universities
               5.2.1.1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Soon-Jo Chung
               5.2.1.2 University of Minnesota Gary Balas
               5.2.1.3 Naval Post Graduate School Isaac Kaminer
               5.2.1.4 Texas A&M John Valasek
          5.2.2 Research Institutions and Companies
               5.2.2.1 Calspan Lou Knotts
               5.2.2.2 Mitchell Aerospace Research Dave Mitchell
               5.2.2.3 Scientific Systems Company Raman Mehra
               5.2.2.4 Systems Technology, Inc. Dave Klyde

6 SUBCOMMITTEE E – FLIGHT, PROPULSION, AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEMS
     6.1 Mitigating a Potential Hazardous Icing Encounter using ICEPRO Borja Martos (UTSI)
     6.2 Improving Quadrotor State Estimation Tim McLain (BYU)
     6.3 UAS Target Level of Safety for 3rd Parties Roland Cochran (NAVAIR)
     6.4 UAS Motion Video Tracking Challenge John Valasek (Texas A&M)

7 SUBCOMMITTEE A – AERONAUTIC AND SURFACE VEHICLES
     7.1 787 from a Pilot’s Perspective Mike Bryan (Boeing) ** Best Presentation Award **
     7.2 History of the NT-33A Variable Stability Aircraft Lou Knotts
     7.3 HTV-2 Bob Wetherall (Lockheed Martin) ** Best Presentation Award **
     7.4 Formation Flight Joe Pahle (NASA DFRC)

8 SUBCOMMITTEE B – MISSILES AND SPACE
     8.1 NESC Independent Review of the Constellation Program Ares I Control Sensitivity to Orion Service Module (SM) Tank Slosh Dynamics Ken Lebsock (Orbital Sciences)
     8.2 TVC Actuator Development for Antares Mike Ruth (Orbital Sciences)
     8.3 The NRC’s Technology Development Prioritization Recommendations for NASA Phil Hattis (Draper Lab)
     8.4 Status of Precision Guided Projectiles Programs John Weyrauch (ATK) ** Best Presentation Award **

9 SUBCOMMITTEE C – AVIONICS AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION
     9.1 Multi-spacecraft Formation Program Fred Hadaegh (NASA JPL)
     9.2 Ground Tests of Airport Taxi Operations Hamsa Balakrishnan (MIT)
     9.3 Vision Based Guidance of Small and Miniature Air Vehicles Randy Beard (BYU)
     9.4 Control Challenges of Realizing a Soft-Winged Aerial Robot that Can Fly Like a Bat Soon-Jo Chung (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10 SUBCOMMITTEE D – DYNAMICS, COMPUTATIONS, AND ANALYSIS
     10.1 Multidisciplinary Aircraft Demonstrator; Control of Flexible Aircraft Bryan Holm-Hansen (Lockheed)
     10.2 Autonomy and Control for Aerospace Systems Dave Doman (AFRL)
     10.3 Optimized Allocation of Control Effort Among Multiple Effectors Marc Bodson (University of Utah)
     10.4 Minimal Modeling Adaptive Control of Aerospace Vehicles Dennis Bernstein (University of Michigan)