Aerospace Engineer in the flight controls group of the US Army Aviation Development Directorate at NASA Ames Research Center.Developed optimized, performance-based, hover control systems for large quadrotor, hexacopter, and octocopter UAVs to reject gust disturbances. Validated control system implementation through flight tests and real-world position-hold performance in a turbulence field. Developed and optimized a gain-scheduled explicit model-following control system for a… Show more Aerospace Engineer in the flight controls group of the US Army Aviation Development Directorate at NASA Ames Research Center.Developed optimized, performance-based, hover control systems for large quadrotor, hexacopter, and octocopter UAVs to reject gust disturbances. Validated control system implementation through flight tests and real-world position-hold performance in a turbulence field. Developed and optimized a gain-scheduled explicit model-following control system for a quasi linear parameter varying, full flight envelope, math model of a UH-60 Black Hawk to meet Level 1 handling qualities requirements based on ADS-33 specifications. Math model and control system evaluated and validated in advanced simulator by test pilots. Show less

Developed solutions manual for CONDUIT training course material and learned to use the multi-objective optimization software, CONDUIT, for flight control law design