During my internship at A.R.M.A. lab at Vanderbilt University (Summer 2011) I gained valuable experience, new knowledge, and skills that will guide me through my final year as an undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering as well as my graduate school studies. In fact, over the course of my three month internship, not only did I gain a great deal of knowledge in Robotics, but I learned necessary s...

The work has been carried out at Saab Automobile AB (Saab) in Trollhättan, Sweden, with focus on discrete-event simulation and manufacturing logistics. We would like to express our gratitude to all of you who have contributed to this work! Especially for you Andreas Ardhus, Project Engineer as well as our tutor at Saab, for your supervision and guidance; Johan Nordling, Consultant at Siemens In...

Q. How did your education and early career lead to initial continuing interest in the control field?

Author Contributions:Dr Stepanova had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study concept and design: All authors. Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: Stepanova, Younossi. Drafting of the manuscript: Stepanova, Saab, Venkatesan, Younossi, Critical revision of the manuscript for impo...

Traditionally supervision has been achieved using limit checking and hardware redundancy, but these methods have proven insufficient. The availability of information from all parts of the aircraft and the computing capacity available in the Gripen today enables the implementation of sophisticated supervision methods, for instance model based diagnosis. The purpose of this thesis was to investig...