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Handling Qualities I
Technical Session D: Thurs. May 7, 2026
A Configuration-Independent Trajectory Control System for Simplified Vehicle Operations of VTOL Aircraft
Anthony Comer
Full State Feedback Controller for a Helicopter
Stephen Mouritsen,
Fred Piasecki
Lichten Winner: A High Integrity State Machine Framework for In-Flight Disturbance Injection and Failure Response Validation
Parth Kumar,
Adam Brzezinski,
David Wong,
Jason Ryan,
Cuyler Dull,
Ben Judelson
Modeling and Control of Advanced Tiltrotor Aircraft in Airplane Mode
Matteo Ferraro,
Luca Vigano,
Marco Lovera
Next-Gen Military Rotorcraft Concept Design Assessment
Stefan van 't Hoff,
Ole Pfeifle,
Richard Bakker,
Matteo Mamino,
Emmanouil Vasileiadis
Toward Generalized Control/State-Equivalent Turbulence Input (CETI/STETI) Models for Main-Tail Rotor Helicopters and Tiltrotors
Umberto Saetti
Handling Qualities II
Technical Session E: Thurs. May 7, 2026
A General Theory for Piloted and UAS Handling Qualities and Control
Edward Bachelder
A Joint Control–gaze Metric for Pilot Compensation
Tim Jusko,
Daniel H. Greiwe
Enhancing Simulator Fidelity Through Virtualized Vestibular Feedback
Edward Bachelder
Full-Body Haptic Cueing for Augmented Operator Perception in the Control of Drone Swarms
Michael Morcos,
Evan Gary,
Gabriele Luzzani,
Umberto Saetti,
Derek Geiger,
Stephen Kubik,
Adam Breed,
Clifton Crane
Model-Reference Adaptive Pilot Model of Rotorcraft Position Tracking Tasks with Time-Varying Vehicle Dynamics
Joseph Horn,
Alexander Keller,
Zhouzhou Chen