Kenneth Knowles Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Lead a team of GNC software engineers to architect, design, develop, and test a flight control system for autonomous aircraft• Plan & communicate technical roadmaps, system design, and requirements across disciplines• Guide engineers on how to tune, optimize, generate code, embed, and unit test guidance and control algorithms in C++ in an operational flight program• Select hardware for embedded GPS inertial navigation, inertial measurement units, and air data systems; integrate… Show more • Lead a team of GNC software engineers to architect, design, develop, and test a flight control system for autonomous aircraft• Plan & communicate technical roadmaps, system design, and requirements across disciplines• Guide engineers on how to tune, optimize, generate code, embed, and unit test guidance and control algorithms in C++ in an operational flight program• Select hardware for embedded GPS inertial navigation, inertial measurement units, and air data systems; integrate Kalman filters and strapdown (inertial) navigation algorithms Show less

• Model and simulate nonlinear vehicle dynamics, analyze flight stability/control and flying qualities for a hypersonic flight control system• Develop linear aircraft state space models from nonlinear equations of motion models• System identification & parameter identification from flight test data• Architect & develop multi-project continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines in Linux containers to reduce software development time cycle by 1000s hours

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Integrate GNC and sim model code, generated from Simulink, into a hypersonic vehicle’s Operational Flight Program (OFP) and simulation framework• Create scripts to automate testing, analysis, and generation of replay data C++ classes, which decreased future time to integration by 70%• Develop interfaces and messaging for actuators, gyros/ IMUs, GPS simulators

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

2019 Rotation - Software, Skunk Works®• Developed operational flight programs and hardware-in-the-loop simulations• Agile methods in C++ software for embedded processing on real-time systems2018 Rotation - Stability & Control, Skunk Works®• Conducted S&C supersonic wind tunnel tests of scale-model aircraft for engineering development• Performed analyses of aircraft stability, control robustness, and control power• Developed surrogate aerodynamic models using an… Show more 2019 Rotation - Software, Skunk Works®• Developed operational flight programs and hardware-in-the-loop simulations• Agile methods in C++ software for embedded processing on real-time systems2018 Rotation - Stability & Control, Skunk Works®• Conducted S&C supersonic wind tunnel tests of scale-model aircraft for engineering development• Performed analyses of aircraft stability, control robustness, and control power• Developed surrogate aerodynamic models using an artificial neural network 2017 Rotation - Flight Control Laws & Simulation, Skunk Works®• Built software models and simulations of aircraft that are under research & development using MATLAB/Simulink • Designed and tested inner- and outer-loop flight control algorithms for fixed-wing aircraft• Developed technology for autonomously controlling quadcopter vehicles using position feedback in a GPS-denied environment Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Designed and commissioned closed-loop control systems for aircraft production processes, such as F-35 avionics ground cooling, F-35 and F-16 aircraft finishing (AFF), component finishing (CFF), high-altitude test equipment, and vacuum systems• Developed software and live graphics for control systems in Siemens' APOGEE

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Designed and analyzed a supercomputer chilled-door cooling system to determine thermodynamic requirements, engineering viability, and system maintainability

Kopperl, Texas, United States

United States

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Tutored students in physics, engineering, mathematics, English, and chemistry• Clients included students at Southern Methodist University, Kilgore College, Tarrant County College, and Highland Park High School

Master Of Science In Aerospace Engineering, Flight Mechanics And Control, 3.9

Bachelor Of Science In Mechanical Engineering, Cum Laude, 3.92

Mechanical Engineering Transfer, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Host of the KC Electric Motor Contest, NASA CAS Aerospace Scholar, Phi Theta Kappa - Vice President.