Areas: Vehicle Systems, Dynamics and Design, Extended Reality Flight Simulation and Control
Research topics include human-machine interaction, innovative pilot cueing methods, and development of advanced flight control laws.
Dr. Saetti's research focuses on modeling, simulation, order reduction, and control of high-order models of the coupled flight dynamics, interactional aerodynamics, and aeroacoustics of rotary- and flapping-wing vehicles.
Dr. Saetti's research focuses on modeling, simulation, order reduction, and control of high-order models of the coupled flight dynamics, aerodynamics, and aeroacoustics of aircraft, rotorcraft, and biologically-inspired flying vehicles.
Research Field
- Flight Dynamics & Control, System ID, Handling Qualities
- Coupled Flight Dynamics, Aeromechanics, and Acoustics
- Time-Periodic Systems
Research Interests:
- Coupled Flight Dynamics, Aeromechanics, and Aeroacoustics Simulations
- Linearization, stability, order reduction, control
- Rotary-Wing Vehicles (helicopter, tiltrotors, etc.)
- Flapping-Wing MAVs (insects, birds)
- Advanced Flight Control Systems
- Rotorcraft flight control systems
- Active noise-abatement flight control laws
- Active rotor vibration flight control laws
- Perception Modeling and Pilot Cueing Methods
- Full-body haptic feedback
- Cueing algorithms for autorotation/shipboard landing
- Dynamic Systems Approach to
- Fluids/Aeroacoustics
- Time-periodic fluid flows
- Linearization Methods
