Aircraft Performance Data Acquisition
Obtaining electric fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle performance data will help verify and optimize aircraft designs from a single flight.
Timothy Takahashi
Timothy Takahashi is a professor of practice for aerospace engineering in the School for the Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University. He teaches classes in aircraft performance, aerodynamics, aerospace structures and materials and engineering profession.
Total projects: 10
Projects
How Center of Gravity Location and the Sizing of Control Surfaces Affect Aircraft Stability
Examining how control surface sizing and center of gravity location effect the stability of an aircraft will teach people how to design more efficiently.
Kevin O'Brien
FURI: Fall 2020, Needs Review
Aircraft Performance and Propulsion Data Acquisition
Determining accurate performance measures of small scale aircraft allows for design validation and greater effectiveness.
Maxwell Stauffer
FURI: Fall 2020, Needs Review
Propulsion Data Acquisition
Optimizing electric aircraft propulsion through data will help maximize range and other aircraft performance features.
How Control Surface Sizing Affects an Aircraft Stability and Preformance
Studying how the sizing of an aircraft's control surfaces impacts its stability will help teach people how to design more efficiently.
Kevin O'Brien
FURI: Spring 2020
Instrument Design for Aircraft Performance Measurement
Designing instruments for aircraft performance measurement will increase aircraft energy efficiency.
Maxwell Stauffer
FURI: Spring 2020
Dynamic Thrust Testing Tools
Creating the tools to measure motor efficiency under practical conditions will help optimize aircraft performance.
Daniel Kosednar
FURI: Fall 2019
Automatically Generated Wing Structure Model
Creating a tool to automatically design wing structures will accelerate future aircraft design processes.
Nikolay Kolesov
FURI: Spring 2019
Optimization of Propeller Characteristics for Applications in Wind Tunnel Testing
Studying the effects of propellers in small wind tunnels will allow for further propeller motion research without the cost of large tunnels.
Jack Barker
FURI: Spring 2019
Data Enabled Dynamic Thrust Measurement
Developing tools to better measure and evaluate the efficiency of the thrust-generation of aircraft propulsion will make drones more efficient.
Daniel Kosednar
FURI: Spring 2019
