About

Gender

Male


Location

Lawrence, KS


About Me:

I am an aerospace engineer with a focus on unmanned aircraft system design, flight controls, modeling, and simulation. I was the chief designer for the Meridian UAS (http://www.ae.engr.ku.edu/), a 1,200 lbs UAS designed to measure ice thickness in Antarctica and Greenland. I have spent two seasons in Antarctica and one in Greenland operating UAS. I am a cofounder of Pulse Aerospace, a company focused on unmanned aircraft system products and services.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am interested in UAV design, flight dynamics, controller design, modeling, and simulation.


Hometown:

Lawrence, KS


Activity Feed

Bill Donovan commented on William Premerlani's blog post Magnetometer alignment
"Pete,
Thanks for the response. That's what I thought. Just wanted to make sure. Real time calibration of the mag can definitely be useful. People always find ways to mess up a mag calibration.
Customer: "Look I installed a new hatch closure…"
Oct 21, 2011
Bill Donovan commented on William Premerlani's blog post Magnetometer alignment
"Bill,
Your point about the strength of the magnetic field being stronger vertically than laterally can definitely be a pain. I've spent a few seasons in Antarctica flying UAVs (http://meridianuas.blogspot.com/) and all I can say is strange things…"
Oct 21, 2011
Bill Donovan replied to Andrew Rabbitt's discussion DCM - how is the order of rotation chosen?
"Hi andrew and William,
The order of operations actually does matter here. There's a really good explanation on page 16-17 of Airplane Flight Dynamics and Automatic Flight Controls by Jan Roskam. Basically when multiplying non-diagonal matrices, you…"
Oct 7, 2011