Publications

Technical publications

Chatterjee A., Vechalapu T.R., Kanistras K. Experimental Investigation of Planar Swept Bio-Inspired Wing Planforms, (Under Review), AIAA Scitech 2023.

Schweikert M., Patel. K., Kanistras K. (2022). Development of an Optimization Framework for a Circulation Control Morphing Wing, AIAA Aviation 2022.

Vechalapu T. R., Schweikert M. Jones G.S., Kanistras K. (2022). Investigation on Unsteady Effects of Blowing over Actuated Surfaces using Phase-Locked PIV. Journal of Aircraft (In print).

Rao, S.B., Chatterjee, A. & Kanistras, K. (2022). System Identification of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Actuated Wingtips. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems.

Chatterjee A., Vechalapu T.R., Kanistras K. (2021). Experimental Investigation of the Wingtip Vortex Structure of Planar Elliptical and Crescent Shaped Wing Planforms, AIAA Aviation 2021.

Vechalapu T. R., Schweikert M., Merlock E., Kanistras K. (2021). Investigation of the unsteady effects of active blowing using phase-Locked PIV, AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum.

Rao S. B., Chatterjee A., Landrum D. B., Kanistras K. (2021). Preliminary analysis of bio-inspired symmetric and asymmetric winglet deformation, AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum.

Kanistras, K., Valavanis, K. P., & Rutherford, M. J. (2018). Foundations of circulation control based small-scale unmanned aircraft: A comprehensive methodology from concept to design and experimental testing. Springer Monograph.

Kanistras K. , Saka, P. C., Valavanis, K. P., & Rutherford, M. J. (2018). Wind tunnel investigation of a circulation control wing with dual radius flaps. Journal of Aircraft.

Rosen, C., Kanistras K., Saka, P. C., Valavanis, K. P., & Rutherford, M. J. (2018). System identification and controller implementation of a centrifugal compressor for circulation control applications. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems.

Michailidis, M. G., Kanistras, K., Agha, M., Rutherford, M. J., & Valavanis, K. V. (2017). Robust nonlinear control of the longitudinal flight dynamics of a circulation control fixed wing UAV. 56th IEEE conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne Australia.

Michailidis, M. G., Agha, M. t., Rutherford, M. J., & Valavanis, K. P. (2017). A controller design framework for a nextgen circulation control based UAV. IEEE CCTA Conference, Hawaii.

Agha, M., Kanistras, K. , Saka, P. C., Valavanis, K. P., & Rutherford, M. J. (2017). System identification of circulation control UAV using x-plane flight simulation software and flight data. AIAA Aviation, Denver (Co).

Rosen, C., Kanistras, K. , Saka, P. C., Valavanis, K. P., & Rutherford, M. J. (2017). Design and development of a control scheme for UC2AV: Unmanned circulation control aerial vehicle. AIAA SciTech, Grapevine, Texas.

Kanistras, K. , Saka, P. C. , Valavanis, K. P. , & Rutherford, M. J. (2016). UC2AV: Unmanned Circulation Control Aerial Vehicle for short takeoff and enhanced payload. AIAA Aviation, Washington (DC).

Saka, P. C., Kanistras, K. , Valavanis, K. P., & Rutherford, M. J. (2016). Development of a framework for a circulation control-based unmanned aerial vehicle. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, USA.

Kanistras, K. , Saka, P. C., Valavanis, K. P., Vitzilaios, N., & Rutherford, M. J. (2015). Low speed wind tunnel investigation of a circulation control wing for enhanced lift. AIAA Aviation Dallas, Texas.

Kanistras, K. , Saka, P. C., Valavanis, K. P., Vitzilaios, N. I., & Rutherford, M. J. (2015). Design and development of an air supply unit for circulation control wing-based UAVs. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, USA.

Kanistras, K. , Rutherford, M. J., Vitzilaios, N., & Valavanis, K. P. (2014). Experimental study of circulation control wings at low reynolds numbers. 32nd Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Aviation, Atlanta.

Kanistras, K. , Rutherford, M. J., & Valavanis, K. P. (2014). Development of a circulation control wing for uavs. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, USA.

Kanistras, K. , Martins, G., Rutherford, M. J., & Valavanis, K. P. (2013). A survey of unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs) for traffic monitoring. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Atlanta.

Brune, C., Dityam, T., Girwar-Nath, J., Kanistras, K. , Martins, G., Moses, A., and Samonas, I. and Amour, G. L. and Rutherford, M. J., & Valavanis, K. P. (2012). Enabling civilian applications of unmanned teams through collaboration, cooperation and sensing. SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing.