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Advanced Control System Design for Hypersonic Vehicles

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNX08CB36P
Agency Tracking Number: 075390
Amount: $100,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A2.07
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2007
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2008-01-18
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2008-07-21
Small Business Information
868 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303-4622
United States
DUNS: 829385509
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: Yes
Principal Investigator
 V. V. S. Vaddi
 Principal Investigator
 (650) 213-8585
 vaddi@optisyn.com
Business Contact
 P. Menon
Title: Business Official
Phone: (650) 213-8585
Email: menon@optisyn.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Guidance and control system design for hypersonic vehicles is more challenging than their subsonic and supersonic counterparts. Some of these challenges are (i) coupling between the aerodynamic, structural and propulsion sub-systems (ii) uncertainty involved in modeling these couplings and (iii) state-space constraints. Proposed research seeks to address these challenges using advanced robust control system design techniques. Key components of the proposed research are (i) hypersonic vehicle modeling, (ii) uncertainty representation, (iii) robust controller designs, and, (iv) robustness evaluation tools. Personnel at OSI have extensive experience in the area of flight control system design and flight vehicle modeling.
Phase I research will demonstrate the feasibility by using existing longitudinal hypersonic vehicle models. Phase II research will pursue three dimensional modeling of the hypersonic vehicle alongside advancing the control system design. A complete version of the control system design software will be developed and provided to NASA by the end of Phase II work.

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