Advanced Vertical Flight I

Technical Session A: Tues. May 16, 2023

Development of an Air-launched Tail-Sitter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Jiaze Cai, Hunter Denton, Moble Benedict

Development, Simulation, and Flight Testing of Damage Tolerant Control Laws for the ADAPT Winged Compound Helicopter Scaled Demonstrator
Samuel Nadell, Tom Berger, Alex DiJoseph, Eric Huang

Experimental Demonstration of the Lifting Capability of a Towed Payload Using Multiple Fixed-wing UAVs
Samuel Quenneville, Francis Therien, Jessy Verrette, David Rancourt, Alex Walsh, Jean-Philippe Lucking Bigue, Philippe Feyel

Investigation of Coaxial Rotor Performance for a Gun-launched Micro Air Vehicle
Hunter Denton, Moble Benedict

Mars Sample Recovery Helicopter: Rotorcraft to Retrieve the First Samples from the Martian Surface
Shannah Withrow-Maser, Wayne Johnson, Theodore Tzanetos, Havard Grip, Witold Koning, Natasha Schatzman, Larry Young, Athena Chan, Allen Ruan, Haley Cummings, Brian Allan, Larry Meyn, Carlos Malpica, Benjamin Pipenberg, Matthew Keennon

Performance Exploration of Vertical Payload Lifting Using a Single Circling Tethered Fixed-Wing Aircraft
Maxime Doguet, Mathieu Bouchard, David Rancourt

The Stopped Rotor - A New Look at an Old Idea
Gerald Brown, Vivek Ahuja

Advanced Vertical Flight II

Technical Session B: Wed. May 17, 2023

Characterization of a Blade-Tip-Propeller Driven Rotor
Robert Brown, Inderjit Chopra

Development and Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Rotor eVTOL Using RPM, Collective, and Cyclic Control in Failure State
Riccardo Roiati, Richard Anderson, Kyle Collins, Vivek Saini, Patric Hruswicki, Nishant Sharma, Syed Zuhair Ali Razvi, Shivansh Agrawal, Xinyu Yang, Sahil Ghate

Interactional Aerodynamic Assessment of a Quad-Rotor Tail Sitter using CFD
Richard Healy, Matthew Floros, Phuriwat Anusonti-Inthra

Wind-Tunnel Performance Investigation of an Electric Medium-Sized Variable-RPM Rotor
Matthew Floros, Radu Teodorescu, Peter Ryseck, Inderjit Chopra