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ECE Contributes to Aircraft Safety NASA has approved a two-year extension of a multi university
project to enhance aircraft safety headed by Professor Jorge
Aravena as Principal Investigator and Kemin Zhou, Chair of
the Department and head of the fault tolerant control team.
The project also includes research teams at University of New
Orleans and the University of Lafayette and was initially funded
by a $1.6 million grant from NASA and Louisiana Board of Regents.
The extension provides more than $1 million in additional funding. The ECE team is responsible for the development of "fault tolerance strategies" that are capable of preserving the integrity of the plane even when problems have occured. This "automatic safe recovery" is implemented through novel techniques first proposed by Zhou. To help with their mission, the LSU researchers are using software provided by NASA, including a mathematical model of an entire Boeing 747. The recently completed three-year work is the first phase of the project that is part of the Aviation Safety and Security Program (AvSSP) which is a joint venture through NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration involving major aerospace industries and several other universities. | |
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