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Development and implementation of guidance, navigation and control systems for a variety of aerospace vehicles, as well as research on a broad range of topics focused on flight dynamics, are performed in the Flight Dynamics and Control Research Lab (FDCRL).

Faculty and student researchers in the FDCRL are focusing much of their current research on intelligent, adaptive and bio-inspired methodologies to improve aviation safety and increase the autonomy of uncrewed robotic systems.

Several uncrewed research platforms in the FDCRL are equipped with the necessary avionics units to provide powerful, portable and flexible rapid prototyping capabilities to aid in the effective development, flight testing and demonstration of Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) systems.

Some exciting research topics currently being investigated in the FDCRL include:

• Fault-Tolerant Flight Control Systems
• Bio-Inspired Adaptive Control
• Artificial Intelligence
• Space Exploration Robotic Systems
• Guidance, Navigation and Control of Uncrewed and Autonomous Systems
• Swarm systems and collective behavior estimation

The space supports undergraduate and graduate research projects throughout the College of Engineering.

Equipment

• Virtual and augmented reality hardware and software with two TV displays
• Five standard workstations
• Four standard computers
• Three T-7600 workstations
• Aero Quanser module
• Cockpit with screen and stick
• Several vision and LiDAR sensors
• Co-robot uncrewed ground vehicle
• Fleet of quad rotors and fixed-wing uncrewed vehicles