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Current NIA Graduate Student: Christopher Hartman |
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Graduate Student: Christopher Hartman, M.S. Candidate, NCSU
Research Project: Flight System Identification of Spacecraft
University Advisor: Prof. Robert Tolson, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University
NASA Mentor: Dr. Gene Morelli, Dynamic Systems and Control Branch (DSCB), Research and Technology Directorate (RTD)
The research area involves practical application of system identification to spacecraft operating in the atmosphere. The graduate student will participate in the Exploration sponsored flight experiment designed to quantify the CEV launch abort scenarios. Data will be collected from flights of CEV models. The student will utilize system identification methods to recover aerodynamic properties of the models over a Mach number range. System identification is the mathematical modeling of dynamic physical systems based on measured data from an experiment, and includes experiment design for data collection, conducting flight experiments, flight dynamics, data analysis, modeling, simulation, and model validation using data from additional experiments. Future sponsorship is expected from either CEV or Mars robotic exploration. The student will be co-advised by Prof. Tolson and Prof. Mazzoleni of NCSU. The NASA POC is Dr. Gene Morelli.
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