Controls systems algorithms design, development and analysis
Linear and non-linear control systems
Kalman filtering estimation
Sensor data fusion techniques
Integration of multiple sensors for use with multiple target detection and tracking algorithms
Sensor modeling: accelerometer, gyroscope, gimbaled platform dynamics, magnetometer, star tracker, altimeter, IR, RF, LIDAR, gimbaled over-the-horizon seeker, camera
Hit-to-kill GNC designs of endo- and exo-atmospheric vehicles
3-DOF trajectory development efforts to support conceptual vehicle designs
6-DOF simulations to generate trade studies to determine GNC system requirements
Integrated guidance and control laws for hypersonic vehicles such as PN, APN, Kappa, State Dependent Riccati Equation (SDRE) and optimal guidance
Hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) simulation models for software verification
Hypersonic Vehicle (HV) GNC, GPS Denied and Autopilot Modelling and Simulation (M&S)/Prototyping/Integration & Test (I&T)
Adaptive Guidance and Control for Hypersonic Vehicles: Indirect and direct adaptive controller design and development to maintain HV performance within regions of aerodynamic uncertainty.
Multiple Model Control Mixing for Robust Control of Hypersonic Vehicles
Hypersonic Weapons & Precision: Guided Munitions Design and Development
GPS/INS & GPS Denied Technology Design and Development
Development of INS simulation software fusing data from various navigation sensors in a GPS-denied (A2/AD) environments for ballistic, non-ballistic, cruise missiles, re-entry vehicles.
Hypersonic Vehicle Aerodynamic/Engine/Airframe
Engineering analysis non-rigid body effects, bending modes, digital notch and bandwidth filtering
Propulsion/Launch
Launch vehicle preliminary design, sizing, and trajectory analysis: support to experimental design/build/test program for a rocket technology demonstrator and its associated test facility
R&D/Development of hypersonic airbreathing propulsion analysis, modeling and test: liquid rocket engine testing, analysis, design
Space
Orbit analysis, astrophysics, rendezvous and capture, attitude matching
Reaction-less attitude control via use of control moment gyroscopic arrays
