This paper presents an overview of the Agile Aerospace Manufacturing Research Center (AAMRC) at the Automation & Robotics Research Institute of The University of Texas at Arlington. The AAMRC is an industryled institute funded by the National Science Foundation and the Advanced Research Projects Agency of DoD. The center is a partnership of academia, industry, and state and local government whi...

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This papers discusses ongoing development of an aircraft design course designed for mechanical engineering students. Almost without exception, aerospace engineering departments operate in conjunction, collaboration, or coexistence with mechanical engineering departments at most major American universities. On the other hand, the majority of mechanical engineering departments operate alone; i.e....

Aerospace engineers have always been leading in the field of design using computational simulations. We design vehicles that go fast, fly high, and operate in extreme conditions. Because computation can help reduce expensive tests that physically simulate these extreme conditions, we benefit from computational simulation and design. This is why successful aerospace companies and agencies, such ...

The future “eEnabled” airplane, capable of participating as an intelligent node in a global information network, is a cyber-physical system (CPS) that requires real-time, continuous and concurrent monitoring as well as control. Vulnerabilities, however, can emerge from the integration of the eEnabled airplane with cyberinfrastructure such as the onboard embedded systems, the ground IT systems a...

DARWIN is a NASA developed, Internet-based system for enabling aerospace researchers to securely and remotely access and collaborate on the analysis of aerospace vehicle design data, primarily the results of wind-tunnel testing and numeric (e.g., computational fluid-dynamics) model executions. DARWIN captures, stores and indexes data; manages derived knowledge (such as visualizations across mul...

This paper describes the development of new methods and software leveraging Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology that has become common in terrestrial networking. We are using SDN to improve the state-of-the-art in design and operation of aerospace communication networks. SDN enables the implementation of services and applications that control, monitor, and reconfigure the network layer...

Abstract: Many control system designs have been developed for controlling the dynamic process of aerospace vehicles. Yet, among those designs, few are readily suitable for applying. Moreover, most of the applicable aerospace control designs are built through flight tests that perform real processes on available real vehicles. The need to use real vehicles in the control design cycle poses a hig...

1 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816. 2 Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, UCF, Orlando, FL 32816. 3 Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433. 4 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469. 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New ...

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