Theoretically proven and derivable control law tuning, necessary for certification of large craft
Actuators work in closed loop to counter external disturbances like wind
Reconfigurable robust inner loop flight control system.
Determine Aerodynamic data of Fixed wing planes from flight tests of a scaled model
Parallel hybrid systems allow an electric motor and IC Engine to power the drive train simultaneously
Unscented Kalman filter for position, velocity, attitude estimation that works even in partially GPS denied environments
Follows desired trajectory despite external disturbances
Incorporating feedback of actuator position into control law provides a larger phase margin for stability
Serial hybrid systems use an IC engine to turn an alternator and charge a battery using power electronic converters.
Prevents control saturation by redirecting control authority to other actuators
Fully inertial solution for attitude estimation
Prevents toppling of a multirotor even if it has just 3 working motors
Network centric platform for multiple opertors to manage multiple unmanned systems.
Greater maneuverability in Fixed wing and multirotors
Redirects actuator commands onto uncongested control bus
Unscented Kalman filter to estimate Angle of attack and sideslip from inertial sensors and Aerodatabase
Vision based indoor localization
Underwater positioning system that acheives accuracy of LBL at a fraction of the cost.
Serves as a test bed for navigation and control law implementation
Use of multiple sensors with different characteristics for robust obstacle detection
Serves as a simulation and test bed for swarm control law implementations
Reliable low overhead secure asymmetric key encryption
Allows care free automated flight amidst obstacles that are user designated or detected using a suitable vision based system.
In case one flight controller fails, another takes over and so on...
Estimates mass of aircraft due to changes in payload/fuel
Efficient vector based motor control