Submissions from 2020
High-Fidelity Modeling of Multirotor Aerodynamic Interactions for Aircraft Design, Eduardo Alvarez and Andrew Ning
Rotor-on-Rotor Aeroacoustic Interactions of Multirotor in Hover, Eduardo Alvarez, Austin Schenk, Tyler Critchfield, and Andrew Ning
Tracking joint angles during whole-arm movements using electromagnetic sensors, Ryan Clark, Taylor Dickinson, Johnfredy Loaiza, Daniel W. Geiger, and Steven Knight Charles
Efficient Incorporation of Fatigue Damage Constraints in Wind Turbine Blade Optimization, Bryce Ingersoll and Andrew Ning
Unsteady Aerodynamic Analysis of Wind Harvesting Aircraft, Judd Mehr, Eduardo Alvarez, and Andrew Ning
Submissions from 2019
Modeling Multirotor Aerodynamic Interactions Through the Vortex Particle Method, Eduardo Alvarez and Andrew Ning
Best Practices for Wake Model and Optimization Algorithm Selection in Wind Farm Layout Optimization, Nicholas F. Baker, Andrew P.J. Stanley, Jared J. Thomas, Andrew Ning, and Katherine Dykes
Simulated Tremor Propagation in the Upper Limb: From Muscle Activity to Joint Displacement, Thomas Corie and Steven Knight Charles
Influence of Micro-structured Superhydrophobic Surfaces on Nucleation and Natural Convection in a Heated Pool, Adam Cowley, Daniel Maynes, Julie Crockett, and Brian D. Iverson
Relative Navigation of Fixed-Wing Aircraft in GPS-Denied Environments, Gary J. Ellingson, Kevin M. Brink, and Timothy McLain
Combined Trajectory, Propulsion, and Battery Mass Optimization for Solar-Regenerative High-Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aircraft, Nathaniel S. Gates, Kevin R. Moore, Andrew Ning, and John D. Hedengren
Stainless-Steel Column for Robust High Temperature Microchip Gas Chromatography, Abhijit Ghosh, Austin R. Foster, Jacob C. Johnson, Carlos R. Vilorio, Luke T. Tolley, Brian D. Iverson, Aaron R. Hawkins, H. Dennis Tolley, and Milton L. Lee
Model-Based Control of Soft Actuators Using Learned Non-linear Discrete-Time Models, Phillip Hyatt, David Wingate, and Marc D. Killpack
An Examination into the Defining Characteristics of Flexible Solar Aircraft Configurations through Optimization, Taylor McDonnell and Andrew Ning
Takeoff and Performance Tradeoffs of Retrofit Distributed Electric Propulsion for Urban Transport, Kevin Moore and Andrew Ning
Control of Net Radiative Heat Transfer With a Variable-Emissivity Accordion Tessellation, Rydge B. Mulford, Vivek H. Dwivedi, Matthew R. Jones, and Brian Iverson
Heat Transfer, Efficiency and Turn-Down Ratio of a Dynamic Radiative Heat Exchanger, Rydge B. Mulford, Matthew R. Jones, and Brian Iverson
Developable Mechanisms on Developable Surfaces, Todd G. Nelson, Trent K. ZImmerman, Robert J. Lang, Spencer P. Magleby, and Larry L. Howell
The Effect of Communication and Vehicle Properties on the Search Performance of a Swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Jenna E. Newcomb and Andrew Ning
Polynomial Chaos to Efficiently Compute the Annual Energy Production in Wind Farm Layout Optimization, Santiago Padrón, Jared Thomas, Andrew P.J. Stanley, Juan Alonso, and Andrew Ning
Closed-Loop, Axial Temperature Control of Etched Silicon Microcolumn for Tunable Thermal Gradient Gas Chromatography, Parker D. Schnepf, Aaron Davis, Brian Iverson, Richard R. Vanfleet, Robert C. Davis, and Brian D. Jensen
Wind Farm Layout Optimization with Loads Considerations, Andrew P. J. Stanley, Jennifer King, and Andrew Ning
Coupled Wind Turbine Design and Layout Optimization with Non-Homogeneous Wind Turbines, Andrew P. J. Stanley and Andrew Ning
Massive Simplification of the Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problem, Andrew P. J. Stanley and Andrew Ning
Optimization of Turbine Design in Wind Farms with Multiple Hub Heights, Using Exact Analytic Gradients and Structural Constraints, Andrew P.J. Stanley, Andrew Ning, and Katherine Dykes
Simulation of Drop-Size Distribution During Dropwise and Jumping Drop Condensation on a Vertical Surface: Implications for Heat Transfer Modeling, Kinberly A. Stevens, Julie Crockett, Daniel Maynes, and Brian Iverson
Comparison of Wind Farm Layout Optimization Results Using a Simple Wake Model and Gradient-Based Optimization to Large-Eddy Simulations, Jared J. Thomas, Jennifer Annoni, Paul Fleming, and Andrew Ning
Development of a Parameterized Reduced-Order Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Wake Model, Eric Tingey and Andrew Ning
Passive CubeSats for Remote Inspection of Space Vehicles, Patrick Walton, Josh Cannon, Brian Damitz, Tyler Downs, Dallon Glick, Jacob Holtom, Nicholas Kohls, Alex Laraway, Iggy Matheson, Jason Redding, Cory Robinson, Jared Ryan, Niall Stoddard, Jacob Willis, karl Warnick, Michael Wirthlin, Doarn Wilde, Brian Iverson, and David Long
Submissions from 2018
Development of a Vortex Particle Code for the Modeling of Wake Interaction in Distributed Propulsion, Eduardo Alvarez and Andrew Ning
Integrated Free-Form Method for Aerostructural Optimization of Wind Turbine Blades, Ryan Barrett and Andrew Ning
Electrochemical Glucose Sensors Enhanced by Methyl Viologen and Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Channels, Benjamin J. Brownlee, Meisam Bahari, John H. Harb, Jonathan C. Claussen, and Brian D. Iverson
Symmetric Equations for Evaluating Maximum Torsion Stress of Rectangular Beams in Compliant Mechanisms, Guimin Chen and Larry L. Howell
Bubble Nucleation in Superhydrophobic Microchannels due to Subcritical Heating, Adam Cowley, Daniel Maynes, Julie Crockett, and Brian D. Iverson
Scalable fabric tactile sensor arrays for soft bodies, Nathan Day, Jimmy Penaloza, Veronica Santos, and Marc D. Killpack
CIP2A Immunosensor Comprised of Vertically-aligned Carbon Nanotube Interdigitated Electrodes Towards Point-of-Care Oral Cancer Screening, Shaowei Ding, Suprem R. Das, Benjamin J. Brownlee, Kshama Parate, Taylor Davis, Loreen R. Stromberg, Edward K.L. Chan, Joseph Katz, Brian D. Iverson, and Jonathan C. Claussen
Control of Redundant Pointing Movements Involving the Wrist and Forearm, Garrett R. Dorman, Kevin C. Davis, Allan W. Peaden, and Steven K. Charles
A Method for Characterizing Essential Tremor from the Shoulder to the Wrist, Daniel W. Geiger, Dennis Eggett, and Steven K. Charles
Learning nonlinear dynamic models of soft robots for model predictive control with neural networks, Morgan Thomas Gillespie, Charles Mansel Best, Eric Christopher Townsend, David Wingate, and Marc D. Killpack
Large-Scale Multidisciplinary Optimization of an Electric Aircraft for On-Demand Mobility, John Hwang and Andrew Ning
Configuration Estimation for Accurate Position Control of Large-Scale Soft Robots, Phillip Hyatt, Dustan Paul Kraus, Vallan Sherrod, Levi Rupert, Nathan Day, and Marc D. Killpack
Frequency response of the Leap Motion Controller and its suitability for measuring tremor, Clay J. Kincaid, Austin C. Vaterlaus, Nathan R. Stanford, and Steven Knight Charles
Dynamic Optimization of High-Altitude Solar Aircraft Trajectories Under Station-Keeping Constraints, Abraham Martin, Nathaniel Gates, Andrew Ning, and John Hedengren
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Flexible Solar-Regenerative High-Altitude Long-Endurance Aircraft, Taylor McDonnell, Judd Mehr, and Andrew Ning
Distributed Electric Propulsion Effects on Traditional Aircraft Through Multidisciplinary Optimization, Kevin Moore and Andrew Ning
Total Hemispherical Apparent Radiative Properties of the Infinite V-groove with Diffuse Reflection, Rydge B. Mulford, Nathan S. Collins, Michael S. Farnsworth, Matthew R. Jones, and Brian D. Iverson
Total Hemispherical Apparent Radiative Properties of the Infinite V-groove with Specular Reflection, Rydge B. Mulford, Nathan S. Collins, Michael S. Farnsworth, Matthew R. Jones, and Brian D. Iverson
Universal Airfoil Parametrization Using B-Splines, Dev Rajnarayan, Andrew Ning, and Judd Mehr
Origami-Based Deployable Ballistic Barrier, Kenny Seymour, Dakota Burrow, Alex Avila, Terri Bateman, David C. Morgan, Spencer P. Magleby, and Larry L. Howell
Benefits of Two Turbine Rotor Diameters and Hub Heights in the Same Wind Farm, Andrew PJ Stanley, Andrew Ning, and Katherine Dykes
Superhydrophobic, Carbon-Infiltrated Carbon Nanotubes on Si and 316L Stainless Steel with Tunable Geometry, Kimberly A. Stevens, Christian D. Esplin, Taylor M. Davis, D. Jacob Butterfield, Philip S. Ng, Anton E. Bowden, Brian D. Jensen, and Brian D. Iverson
A method for reducing multi-modality in the wind farm layout optimization problem, Jared Thomas and Andrew Ning
Design of an Origami-Inspired Deployable Aerodynamic Locomotive Fairing, Kyler A. Tolman, Erica B. Crampton, Chad Stucki, Daniel Maynes, and Larry L. Howell
Visual Servoing for Multirotor Precision Landing in Varying Light Conditions, Jesse Wynn and Tim McLain
Submissions from 2017
Motion planning for mobile robots using inverse kinematics branching, Daniel Mark Bodily, Thomas Allen, and Marc D. Killpack
Microfabrication with smooth thin carbon nanotube composite sheets, Nathan Edward Boyer, Lei Pei, Joseph Rowley, Derric Syme, Steven Liddiard, Jonathan Abbott, Kyle Larson, Zhiyong Liang, Brian Iverson, and Richard R. Vanfleet
Improving Sensitivity of Electrochemical Sensors with Convective Transport in Free-Standing, Carbon Nanotube Structures, Benjamin J. Brownlee, Kevin M. Marr, Jonathan C. Claussen, and Brian D. Iverson
Fundamental Principles of Tremor Propagation in the Upper Limb, Andrew D. Davidson and Steven Knight Charles
Deep Visual Gravity Vector Detection for Unmanned Aircraft Attitude Estimation, Gary J. Ellingson, David Wingate, and Tim McLain
Microstructure correlation with formability for biaxial stretching of magnesium alloy AZ31B at mildly elevated temperatures, David T. Fullwood, Isaac Chelladurai, Michael P. Miles, John E. Carsley, Raj K. Mishra, Irene J. Beyerlein, and Marko Knezevic
Influence of Noise Generating Factors on Cross Correlation EBSD Measurement of GNDs, David T. Fullwood, Landon Hansen, Brian Jackson, Stewart I. Wright, Marc De Graef, Eric Richards Homer, and Robert Wagoner
Extending the Upper Temperature Range of Microchip Gas Chromatography Using a Heater/Clamp Assembly, Abhijit Ghosh, Jacob E. Johnson, Johnathan G. Nuss, Brittany A. Stark, Aaron R. Hawkins, Luke T. Tolley, Brian D. Iverson, H. Dennis Tolley, and Milton L. Lee
Real-time evolutionary model predictive control using a graphics processing unit, Phillip Hyatt and Marc D. Killpack
Reaching in Clutter with Whole-Arm Tactile Sensing, Advait Jain, Marc D. Killpack, Aaron Edsinger, and Charles Kemp
Multi-Objective Design Optimization of a Soft, Pneumatic Robot, Marc D. Killpack, Daniel M. Bodily, and Thomas F. Allen
Relative Multiplicative Extended Kalman Filter for Observable GPS-Denied Navigation, Daniel P. Koch, David O. Wheeler, Randal Beard, Tim McLain, and Kevin M. Brink
A Well Clear Recommendation for Small UAS in High-Density, ADS-B-Enabled Airspace, Timothy McLain and Matthew O. Duffield
Analysis of Rigid Extended Object Co-Manipulation by Human Dyads: Lateral Movement Characterization, Erich Mielke, Eric Townsend, and Marc D. Killpack
Thermophysical Properties of Thin Fibers via Photothermal Quantum Dot Fluorescence Spectral Shape-based Thermometry, Troy Munro, Liwang Liu, Heng Ban, and Christ Glorieux
Investigation of synthetic spider silk crystallinity and alignment via electrothermal, pyroelectric, literature XRD, and tensile techniques, Troy Munro, Tristan Putzeys, Michael Wubbenhorst, Christ Glorieux, Cameron G. Copeland, Randolph V. Lewis, Changhu Xing, and Heng Ban
Thermal Characterization of Natural and Synthetic Spider Silks by Both the 3ω and Transient Electrothermal Methods, Troy Munro, Changhu Xing, Heng Ban, Cameron G. Copeland, Randolph V. Lewis, and Colby Jensen
Hybrid Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Systems: A Review, Kody M. Powell, Khalid Rashid, Kevin Ellingwood, Jake Tuttle, and Brian D. Iverson
Optimization Under Uncertainty for Wake Steering Strategies, Julian Quick, Jennifer Annoni, Ryan King, Katherine Dykes, Paul Fleming, and Andrew Ning
Gradient-Based Optimization of Wind Farms with Different Turbine Heights, Andrew P.J. Stanley, Jared Thomas, Andrew Ning, Jennifer Annoni, Katherine Dykes, and Paul Fleming
Two-Phase Flow Pressure Drop in Superhydrophobic Channels, Kimberly A. Stevens, Julie Crockett, Daniel R. Maynes, and Brian D. Iverson
Comparison of linearized dynamic robot manipulator models for model predictive control, Jonathan Terry, Levi Rupert, and Marc D. Killpack
Improving the FLORIS Wind Plant Model for Compatibility with Gradient-Based Optimization, Jared Thomas, Pieter Gebraad, and Andrew Ning
Trading Off Sound Pressure Level and Average Power Production for Wind Farm Layout Optimization, Eric Tingey and Andrew Ning
Estimating Human Intent for Physical Human-Robot Co-Manipulation, Eric Townsend, Erich Mielke, David Wingate, and Marc D. Killpack
Minimum Required Detection Range for Detect and Avoid of Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Jared Kevin Wikle, Tim McLain, Randal W. Beard, and Laith Rasmi Sahawneh
Variable stiffness adaptation to mitigate system failure in inflatable robots, Joshua Wilson, Charles Best, and Marc D. Killpack
Submissions from 2016
Comparison of Airfoil Precomputational Analysis Methods for Optimization of Wind Turbine Blades, Ryan Barrett and Andrew Ning
A New Soft Robot Control Method: Using Model Predictive Control for a Pneumatically Actuated Humanoid, Charles Best, Morgan Thomas Gillespie, Phillip Hyatt, Levi Rupert, Vallan Sherrod, and Marc D. Killpack
Infrared Visualization of the Cavity Effect Using Origami-Inspired Surfaces, Mitchell J. Blanc, Rydge B. Mulford, Matthew R. Jones, and Brian D. Iverson
Scenario Analysis for Techno-Economic Model Development of U.S. Offshore Wind Support Structures, Rick Damiani, Andrew Ning, Ben Maples, Aaron Smith, and Katherine Dykes
Optimization-Based Path Planning for Separation Assurance on Small Unmanned Aircraft, Matthew Duffield, Andrew Ning, and Timothy McLain
Wind Plant System Engineering through Optimization of Layout and Yaw Control, Paul Fleming, Andrew Ning, Pieter Gebraad, and Katherine Dykes
Vibration monitoring via nano-composite piezoelectric foam bushings, David T. Fullwood, Evan T. Bird, A Jake Merrell, Brady K. Anderson, Cory N. Newton, Parker G. Rosquist, Anton E. Bowden, and Matthew K. Seeley
Material Selection Shape Factors for Compliant Arrays in Bending, David T. Fullwood, Todd G. Nelson, Jared T. Bruton, Nathan E. Rieske, M. Patrick Walton, and Larry L. Howell
Insights into Twinning in Mg AZ31: A Combined EBSD and Machine Learning Study, David T. Fullwood, Andrew Orme, Isaac Chelladurai, Travis Michael Rampton, Ali Khosravani, Michael Miles, and Raj K. Mishra
Maximization of the Annual Energy Production of Wind Power Plants by Optimization of Layout and Yaw-Based Wake Control, Pieter Gebraad, Jared Thomas, Andrew Ning, Paul Fleming, and Katherine Dykes
Simultaneous position and stiffness control for an inflatable soft robot, Morgan Gillespie, Charles Best, and Marc D. Killpack
UAV Path-Planning using Bézier Curves and a Receding Horizon Approach, Bryce Ingersoll, Kyle Ingersoll, Patrick DeFranco, and Andrew Ning
Performance of Dynamically Simulated Reference Patterns for Cross Correlation EBSD, Brian Jackson, Jordan Christensen, Saransh Singh, Marc De Graef, David T. Fullwood, Eric Richards Homer, and Robert Wagoner
Mass digitization system, Marc D. Killpack
Single-Degree-of-Freedom Rigidly Foldable Origami Flashers, Robert J. Lang, Spencer P. Magleby, and Larry L. Howell
Multi-Sensor Robust Relative Estimation Framework for GPS-Denied Multirotor Aircraft, Tim McLain, Daniel P. Koch, and Kevin M. Brink
Landing Zone Determination for Autonomous Rotorcraft in Surveillance Applications, Timothy McLain, Gary J. Ellingson, and Justin Mackay
ROSflight: A Lightweight, Inexpensive MAV Research and Development Tool, Timothy McLain, James Jackson, and Gary J. Ellingson
Cushioned Extended-Periphery Avoidance: A Reactive Obstacle Avoidance Plugin, Timothy McLain, James Jackson, and David Wheeler