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Aerial Robotics Research

  • PI Woong Yeol Joe

  • Dr. Joe W. Yeol is dedicated to robotics research in general applications and holds particular interest in Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) and Dynamics and Control research working with students.
Aerodynamic Simulation with Structural Behavior
  • Tom Gally in Aerospace Engineering recently completed a NASA faculty fellowship at NASA Langley. His efforts were primarily focused on coupling aerodynamic simulation with structural behavior.
Aircraft Design Optimization

  • PI Mark Sensmeier

  • Mark Sensmeier of Aerospace Engineering has spent multiple summers at NASA Langley working in a variety of areas. Currently, he and his student team are working on optimization ideas for aircraft design.
Aircraft Structure Materials

  • PI David Lanning

  • David Lanning of Aerospace Engineering has multiple projects. Much of Lanning's research centers on fatigue analysis of aircraft structures.

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Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • PI Shigeo Hayashibara

  • Shigeo Hayashibara is a founder of ERAU Advanced Computer Simulation Laboratory (ACSL) at Undergraduate Research Institute (URI) at the Hazy library (room 119). Currently multiple student research projects are ongoing with industrial partnership (Boeing, Intelligent Light, and Pointwise) in CFD analysis on aerospace vehicles and energy systems.

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ICARUS Drone Net

  • PI Samuel Siewert

    CO-I Iacopo Gentilini

    CO-I Mehran Andalibi

    CO-I Stephen Bruder

  • Drone Net is a conceptual architecture to integrate passive sensor nodes in a local sensor network along with traditional active sensing methods for small Unmanned Aerial Systems traffic management. The goal of the proposed research architecture is to evaluate use of multiple passive sensor nodes integrating Electro-Optical/Infrared and acoustic arrays networked around a UAS Traffic Management operating region (Class G uncontrolled airspace). The Drone Net approach will be compared to and/or used in addition to RADAR and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast tracking and identification.  We hypothesize that this approach can better manage non-compliant small UAS along with compliant UAS and general aviation in sensitive airspace, urban locations, and geo-fenced regions. 

Identifying Cost-Effective Security Barrier Technologies for K-12 Schools: An Interdisciplinary Evaluation

  • PI Thomas Foley

    CO-I Reginald Parker

    CO-I Michele Gazica

    CO-I Brooke Shannon

    CO-I Erin Bowen

    CO-I Muna Slewa

    CO-I Michael Brady

    CO-I Richard Rodriguez

    CO-I Perry Feder

  • This study proposes to test and collect data on the effectiveness of commonly used physical security systems in delaying intruders. The purpose of this study is to support the design of better physical security systems for schools. The study will also gather data on parent and teacher perceptions of the quality of security in schools.

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Novel n x n Bit-Serial Multiplier Architecture Optimized for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)

  • PI Akhan Almagambetov

    CO-I David Feinauer

    CO-I Holly Ross

  • Bit-serial multipliers have a variety of applications, from the implementation of neural networks to cryptography. The advantage of a bit-serial multiplier is its relatively small footprint, when implemented on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. Despite their apparent advantages, however, traditional bit-serial multipliers typically require a substantial overhead, in terms of component usage, which directly translates to a large area of the chip being reserved while many of those resources are unused.

    This research addresses the possibility of an efficient two's complement bit-serial multiplier (serial-serial multiplier) implementation that would minimize flip-flop and control set usage on an FPGA device, thereby potentially reducing the overall area of the circuit. Since the proposed architecture is modular, it functions as a "generic" definition that can be effortlessly implemented on an FPGA device for any number of bits.

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Robotics Redundant Manipulation and Space Robotics

  • PI Douglas Isenberg

    CO-I Iacopo Gentilini

  • The research focus of Dr. Isenberg and Dr. Gentilini in the Robotics Laboratory revolves around the modeling and control of industrial and mobile robotics system. In particular our current effort is directed towards the investigation of novel optimization techniques for energy optimal trajectory generation in redundant manipulation systems,

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Satellite Research

  • PI Ronald Madler

  • Ron Madler of Aerospace Engineering spent summer 2005 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working with a team of students on a satellite project.
Software Safety

  • PI Matthew Jaffe

  • Matt Jaffe was one of the authors of the recently published RTCA DO-178C/EUROCAE ED-12C, Software Considerations in the Certification of Airborne Equipment and Systems.
Software-Defined Computational Photometry – Arctic Multi-Spectral and Passive 3D Imaging Project

  • PI Samuel Siewert

    CO-I Matthew Vis

    CO-I Ryan Claus

    CO-I Nicholas DiPinto

  • This research focuses on the development of field deployed multi-spectral computer vision systems for use on maritime vessels, buoys, ports, and for use on unoccupied aerial systems. The approach includes development of both General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit and multi-core image processing along with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hybrid architectures for low-power real-time computer vision. The mission is detection and monitoring of security, environmental and safety threats in Arctic maritime environments.