{"427111":{"#nid":"427111","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mavris and NASA colleagues recognized for atmospheric flight mechanics paper","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Dimitri Mavris, far right, is joined by co-authors Dr. Peter Suh (a former ASDL\u0026nbsp;PhD student), and Alexander Chin during the awards ceremony where their paper was named Best Atmospheric Flight Mechanics paper of 2014\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA technical paper co-authored by AE Regents Professor Dimitri Mavris, his former doctoral student, Peter Suh, and\u0026nbsp; NASA\u0026nbsp;researcher Alexander Chin has been chosen as the best Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Paper for 2014 by the AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnnouncement of the award came on January 6, during AIAA\u0027s SciTech 2015 Conference, held in Kissimee, Florida.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMavris and his co-authors, both researchers at NASA Dryden Flight Center, were recognized for their paper, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arc.aiaa.org\/doi\/abs\/10.2514\/6.2014-2053\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERobust Modal Filtering and Control of the X-56A Model with Simulated Fiber Optic Sensor Failures\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is the second paper that has been generated by Dr. Suh\u0027s dissertation at Georgia Tech,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Mavris of his co-author\u0027s work. \u0022The previous paper,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Best%20Paper%20AFM%202013.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0027Virtual Deformation Control of the X-56A Model with Simulated Fiber Optic Sensors\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0027 received this same honor last year, so it\u0027s two for two.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe trio\u0027s most recent paper looks at their work to improve the stability of remotely piloted aircraft, in particular the X-56A, using an estimator that, in simulated scenarios, has rejected 230 worst-case fiber optic sensor failures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This paper addressed the question of feasibility of active control of wing shape and body freedom flutter using advanced distributed high spatial resolution fiber optic sensors - while accounting for sensor failures,\u0022 said Mavris during a break from the five-day conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This paper provides an important computational simulation study of the practicality of using distributed strain sensing in an aeroservoelastic control system, which can support lighter more flexible aircraft, thereby enabling next generation aircraft weight savings and ultimately improved fuel efficiency. The methodology proposed was applied on NASA\u2019s X-56 simulation model with good success and the hope now is that it will be used directly in NASA\u2019s upcoming X-56A flexible motion control flights.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDimitri Mavris is the Boeing Professor of Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysisand the\u0026nbsp; the director of the GT-AE Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL). His primary areas of research interest include: advanced design methods, aircraft conceptual and preliminary design, air-breathing propulsion design, multi-disciplinary analysis, design and optimization, system of systems, and non-deterministic design theory.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A technical paper co-authored by AE Regents Professor Dimitri Mavris, his former doctoral student, Peter Suh, and  NASA researcher Alexander Chin has been chosen as the best Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Paper for 2014 by the AIAA"}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 16:02:23","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"129851","name":"Dimitri Mavris"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"},{"id":"136241","name":"Peter Suh"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}