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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 118 - Minneapolis, MN - October 2016
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.1 Government Agencies Summary Reports 4.1.3 DoD 4.1.3.2 AFRL
Title	AFRL
Presenter	Dave Doman
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Abstract	The Control Science Center at the Air Force Research Laboratory is focused on control related research in five areas: autonomous control of unmanned air vehicles, hypersonic vehicle dynamics and control, verification and validation of complex systems, precision airdrop, aircraft thermal management. The UAV team is developing self and team defensive strategies for missions in A2AD environments. A major focus of the UAV team is the development of flexible and fast decentralized control algorithms that allow teams of UAVs to operate autonomously. Recently developed UAV control algorithms will be tested in a major military exercise called Talisman Saber in 2017 that will involve thousands of troops from the US and Australia. The hypersonic vehicle control group is focusing on hardware-in-the-loop testing of an adaptive control law for the HiFIRE 6 test vehicle. In the area of verification and validation we are working to develop techniques for formally verifying the correctness of mission plans and flight control algorithms. In the area of precision airdrop we are focused on the development of physics-based algorithms that use near real-time wind field measurements for determination of release points for unguided drogue/parachute systems. Methods for minimizing impact dispersions of multiple packages by optimizing drogue-to-main chute deployment altitudes have been developed and tested on a limited basis and show considerable promise. Research in the area of aircraft thermal management has focused on using optimization and control methods to maximize thermal range and endurance of aircraft that use fuel as a heat sink for disposal of waste thermal energy.