Aerospace Systems

Aerospace systems are complex and highly interdisciplinary. The Aerospace Systems area teaches and develops methods and techniques to help address the challenges of designing, managing, and operating these systems. Students in this area learn about different design methods and gain systems design experience through individual and team projects. The topics addressed in course and research work include requirements definition, functional decomposition, concept synthesis, application of design-oriented analysis methods, insight into external drivers and constraints, design for X, optimization, and robust design.

Faculty

Meet our Aerospace Systems Faculty

Facilities

System-of-Systems Laboratory
System-of-Systems Laboratory

The SoS Lab, part of the Center for Integrated Systems in Aerospace (CISA), develops foundational methods and tools for addressing problems characterized as system-of-systems, and applies these tools to a variety of problem applications.

More about the System-of-Systems Laboratory:

  • Lead Professor: Daniel DeLaurentis
  • Location: ARMS 2085/3085/3175 and PTC D2-300
  • Three Phase Process Model
  • Community building among industry, academia, and government
  • Lab Website
Value through Reliability, Safety and Sustainability Lab (VRSS)
Value through Reliability, Safety, and Sustainability Lab

Our research is concerned with creating long-term value in systems. We use a variety of techniques, based on the problem at hand. We draw from traditional engineering, systems engineering, operations research, organizational theory, and psychology.

More about the VRSS Lab:

  • Lead Professor: Karen Marais
  • Location: ARMS 3173
  • General aviation safety
  • Maintenance, reliability, and value
  • Lab Website
Flight Dynamics & Control/Hybrid Systems Lab
Flight Dynamics & Control/Hybrid Systems Lab

The research in the FD&C;/HS Lab focuses on modeling and control of the Cyber-Physical System (CPS), which is a complex (networked) system with interacting physical and logical components, and its applications to safety-critical aerospace systems such as aircraft, spacecraft, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), Air Traffic Control (ATC), and multiple-vehicle systems (e.g., swarm of UAS).

More about Flight Dynamics & Control/Hybrid Systems Lab:

  • Lead Professor: Inseok Hwang
  • Location: ARMS 3132
  • Multiple-vehicle systems
  • Path planning and conflict detection and resolution
  • Lab Website