Recently, there has been an increase in outdoor applications for small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), such as 3D modelling, filming, surveillance, and search and rescue. To perform these tasks safely and reliably, ...

In recent years, there has been rising interest in commercial applications of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs). Examples of their usage include aerial photography, infrastructure inspection and emergency first response. For ...

This study aims to address the problem of attitude control of spacecraft in presence of thrust uncertainty, which leads to stochastic accelerations. Spacecraft equipped with electric propulsion and other low thrust mechanisms, ...

Experiments were performed on a slotted natural laminar flow airfoil, the S414. The slotted natural laminar flow airfoil concept was developed to satisfy design constraints of high maximum lift and low profile drag. A ...

The objective of this thesis is to develop a design method together with a design philosophy that allows the design of "subscale" or "hybrid" airfoils that simulate fullscale ice accretions. These subscale or hybrid airfoils ...

In this thesis, the hybrid approach has been applied to the development of inverse methods for the design of (1) multi-element airfoils for multipoint velocity and boundary-layer prescriptions and (2) airfoils to obtain ...

This study explores the Systems Engineering involved in creating an environmentally green system for transporting cargo using aircraft. The study looked at using hydrogen and the resulting infrastructure to allow the ...

Vortex structures observed in the shear layer were presumed to be the cause of large-scale pressure fluctuations upstream of reattachment at small angles of attack. Pressure spectra near reattachment exhibited wide bandwidth ...

The goal of this thesis is to identify potential Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) that are viable candidates for human exploration. The computational method incorporated to help identify these targets is the particle swarm ...