Sustainment Techniques and Future Concepts Master Class Day - Tuesday November 17, 2009

7:30am – 8:00am Registration and Coffee

08:00am - 10:00am A System of Modular Adaptable Reusable Tools

This session will discuss the goal of developing systems of modular adaptable reusable tools to be used as both a hardware and software that is capable of providing the warfighter with dramatic reductions in cognitive workload across multiple platforms and applications. Recent advances and demonstrations illustrating the effectiveness of combining manned rotorcraft platforms with unmanned systems underscore the relevance of the modular adaptable systems. Modular adaptable systems provide the warfighter with a unified library of decision aids, user interface, and modular hardware capable of reuse across current and future force products that increase mission effectiveness, networked lethality, and survivability.

What will be covered:

  • Recent advances of combining manned rotorcraft platforms with unmanned systems
  • Increasing mission effectiveness, networked lethality, and survivability

How you will benefit:

  • Gain insight into integration techniques for manned and unmanned platforms
  • Discover current and future force command and control applications
  • Milestones in the unification of decision aids, user interface, and modular hardware

Session Leader:

Doug Limbaugh
CEO
Kutta Technologies

10:15am – 12:15pm Rotary Wing Dynamic Component Structural Life Tracking

The goal of this session is to demonstrate the feasibility of a fatigue lifetime tracking system for critical components used in rotary aircraft platforms. By incorporating neural network anomaly detection techniques, algorithms will be developed that track specific critical components and their unique identification across different platforms, in order to evaluate both new and historic flight load parameter information. Combining this information with Health Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) databases, algorithms will be developed that can both predict anomalous behaviors associated with extended flight load parameters.

What will be covered:

  • Advances in rotorcraft lifecycle tracking
  • Unique identification techniques across rotorcraft platforms
  • Improved battle readiness of the components and systems

How you will benefit:

  • Learn how advances in component monitoring minimize maintenance costs over the lifecycle of the component
  • Discover predicting capabilities of anomalous behaviors associated with extended flight load parameters
  • Gain insights into improvements of health usage monitoring systems

Session Leader:

Bernard C. Laskowski PhD
President
Analatom Incorporated

12:15pm - 01:15pm Lunch

1:15pm – 3:15pm Review of State-of-Art of Rotorcraft Aeromechanics and Future Opportunities

Future rotorcrafts are tending towards “greenness” with higher SFC, lower specific empty weight, and lower drag from current values. The goal of achieving jet-smooth and quiet ride with a rotorcraft at a moderate operating cost, increased flying qualities in order to be flyable with minimum pilot training, take-off and land from unprepared runways avoiding brownouts, and a expanded flight envelop encompassing gusty and high-altitude environments, we have to increase our understanding of aeromechanic phenomena, while incorporating several disruptive technologies in rotorcraft. This review will identify key areas of research in rotorcraft aeromechanics with potential payoff in performance, cost and product reliability.

What will be covered:

  • Aeromechanical limitations of helicopters
  • Development of aerodynamic theories to improve coaxial rotor design
  • Using versatile physics based models against experimental measurements

How you will benefit:

  • Developing new techniques for rotorcraft design
  • Recognize how to expose fundamental design issues for high performance rotorcraft concepts
  • Gain insight into the next generation of military rotorcraft concepts

Session Leader:

Dr. Inderjit Chopra
Director, Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Maryland