Romeil Sandhu dot com » Uncategorized http://romeilsandhu.com Mix of Math, Engineering, and Fun Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:44:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Google “Blackhawk Formation Flight” http://romeilsandhu.com/google-blackhawk-formation-flight/ http://romeilsandhu.com/google-blackhawk-formation-flight/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:43:15 +0000 admin http://romeilsandhu.com/?p=830 Today I’m writing to you to mention some really cool news.  My advisor whom I also work with on several paid consulting projects were recognized as the first group ever to perform the task of blackhawk helicopter formation flight through only visual information.  In particular, I’ve been working on this project for about a year leading several members of our consulting team in a joint effort with a group at United Technologies Research Corporation to put together a visual tracking scheme in conjunction with a flight control system to provide an algorithm that will eventually reduce pilot workload in formation flight.

At any rate, I could go on this but it might make more sense for me to just point you to an article (one of several) that lists our accomplishment.  Unfortunately, due to the fact that I am a private contractor, the “success” of our project is listed under Sikorsky Corporation.  Nevertheless, it was pretty cool to see some of my research efforts become applicable in the real world setting where even the finance world took note.  Here’s one of the articles:

Finance Sikorsky Blackhawk

For more articles, just google “Blackhawk Formation Flight.” There is also some press releases on the Sikorsky website.

Until next time.
~rome

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