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Back Stochastic Analysis and Control of Moving and Rotating Aerodynamic Bodies

Fiscal Year 2014
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department Center for Decision, Risk, Controls & Signals Intelligence
Investigator(s) Sritharan, Sivaguru S.
Sponsor Army Research Office (Army)
Summary In this project we will extend our previous work on stochastic control and estimation of fluid dynamics to flow past single and multiple moving and rotating obstacles with the specific goal of shedding light in to the type of problems that arise in U.S. Army's unmanned and autonomous systems programs including helicopter aerodynamics. Survivability, lethality and reliability requirements of manned and unmanned (autonomous) system of helicopters in U.S. Army's combat operations pose exciting new and mathematically sophisticated research challenges to control and systems theory. In the proposed research we will develop nonlinear estimation and control techniques incorporating physics based state space models to address such problems. As a part of this program we will develop new theories for stochastic Navier-Stokes equation in domains exterior to moving and rotating bodies and then build nonlinear filtering and feedback controller design for system identification and flow management. This research builds upon more than two decades of ground breaking work on control and stochastic analysis of fluid dynamics with the consistent support of the department of defense.
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