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SUMMARY:AE Seminar by Dr Sri Prakash Sarathy\, Northrop Grumman
DESCRIPTION:AI in general and Agentic AI Frameworks in particular have begun to appear in safety critical and mission critical application of autonomous systems. Assurance of their behavior lags behind in terms of principles\, tools and engineering practice. In this presentation I will cover some emerging approaches that are both powerful and practical\, and easily understood and implemented by average engineering graduate. This is extremely important since assuring systems with AI requires a holistic approach starting from the systems design engineering all the way to implementation\, deployment and maintenance. I present some of the more advanced research methods applicable to autonomous aircraft systems.\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Prakash Sarathy\n\nBiography :\n\nDr. Prakash Sarathy is the Chief Engineer in the areas of advanced autonomy\, cyber assurance\, and systems engineering\, within the Research and Development division of NGAS. He has over 30 years of experience in various aspects of aerospace engineering\, providing technical and project/program management and oversight for advanced technology programs requiring accelerated risk burn down and rapid maturation. His technical expertise includes software for autonomous systems\, behavior assurance for safety and security of advanced vehicle configurations\, integration of hardware and software components in complex multi-physics application domains. This software engineering expertise coupled with his in-depth experience in linear and nonlinear dynamics of vehicle systems\, applied to guidance\, navigation and control of aircraft\, spacecraft and robots as well as of real-time and embedded simulations\, high fidelity modeling\, implementation\, VV&A and testing\, provide an excellent framework for the challenges of next generation autonomous aircraft systems and their assurance. He has provided technical and project/program management and oversight for advanced technology programs ( RTCF\, DARPA/OFW and USN/N-UCAS) requiring accelerated risk burn down and rapid maturation. He is experienced in many facets of hardware\, software and systems engineering process and practice as applied to R&D as well as production software across many application verticals. Expertise in SCM\, SQA\,  agile development\,  re-engineering and testing. He has deep expertise in linear and nonlinear dynamics of vehicle systems\, including flexible multi-vehicle interactions with particular emphasis to real-time simulation of vehicles.\, as well as guidance\, navigation and control of aircraft\, spacecraft and robots\, including flight mechanics\, handling qualities and aero-elasticity. He has spearheaded flight software safety in mixed critical domains under the AFRL MCAR program\, and  overseen software development under the DARPA/OFW (X-plane)\, DARPA/HURT and USN/UCAS-D programs.
URL:https://aero.iisc.ac.in/event/ae-seminar-by-dr-sri-prakash-sarathy-northrop-grumman/
LOCATION:Auditorium (AE 005)\, Department of Aerospace Engineering
CATEGORIES:AE Seminar
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SUMMARY:From Pilot Workload to Adverse Couplings: Understanding Human–Vehicle Interactions in Challenging Rotorcraft Operations
DESCRIPTION:As civil and military aircraft evolve toward increasingly complex designs and intelligent systems\, understanding pilot–vehicle interactions and their impact on safety and performance remains essential. Rotorcraft shipboard landing is among the most demanding flight operations\, requiring pilots to contend with degraded and rapidly changing visual cues\, deck motion\, and environmental disturbances\, often resulting in elevated workload. Yet\, pilot workload is traditionally assessed using subjective rating scales that interrupt operations\, provide only post-task measures\, and offer limited insight into how pilot effort evolves during a mission. This seminar presents research on objective pilot workload assessment using signal processing of pilot inceptor activity\, with helicopter shipboard landing serving as a representative high-workload task. The talk also examines adverse aircraft/rotorcraft–pilot couplings\, including pilot-induced and pilot-assisted oscillations\, which are difficult to predict\, can arise from nonlinear pilot–vehicle interactions\, and have the potential to compromise mission completion and flight safety. Methods for identifying and characterizing such coupling phenomena using pilot inceptor activity are discussed\, together with their implications for aircraft dynamics and control\, pilot assistance technologies\, and autonomous aerial vehicles. \nSpeaker: Dr. Vinodhini Comandur \nBiography:\nVinodhini Comandur is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. She completed her PhD in Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2025. Her research interests lie in flight dynamics and control\, handling qualities\, human factors engineering\, and the development of autonomy-enabled capabilities for rotorcraft applications. She received her B.Tech. (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from the IIT Kharagpur in 2014\, her M.Tech. in Aerospace Engineering from the IIT Kanpur in 2016\, and her M.S. in Computational Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2025.
URL:https://aero.iisc.ac.in/event/from-pilot-workload-to-adverse-couplings-understanding-human-vehicle-interactions-in-challenging-rotorcraft-operations/
LOCATION:Auditorium (AE 005)\, Department of Aerospace Engineering
CATEGORIES:AE Seminar
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