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Aerospace Engineering Departmental Seminar: Dr. Gregg Abate, Elgin Air Force Base, FL; "Micro Aerial Vehicle Research at AFRL"

April 17, 2008 10:00 AM
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This departmental seminar will take place from 10:00 - 11:00 AM on April 17, 2008 in Room 1235 Howe Hall.

Dr. Gregg Abate
Air Force Research Laboratory
Elgin Air Force Base, FL.

Micro Aerial Vehicle Research at AFRL

Dr. Gregg Abate is the leader for the Autonomous Control Team for the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate, located at Eglin AFB, FL.  Dr. Abate's team is looking at technologies to enhance the agility of next generation Air Force Munitions.  Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) - typically UAVs with wingspan on the order of 15cm or less - are fast becoming commonplace for meeting a wide range of current and future military missions.  A MAV's small size offers potential benefits in maneuverability, sensor placement and operational robustness, but small vehicle size and low inertia also makes fine-scale control of MAVs difficult.  Precision operation of MAVs in highly cluttered environments is still a challenge, in part because of difficult to characterize aerodynamics and poorly understood structural-aerodynamic interactions.  This talk will address these issues and their associated research efforts at AFRL.

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