Wright State leads $1 million air vehicle research project

Wright State University will lead a $1 million project to develop computer aids for designing smart air vehicles that adapt to keep flying, even when damaged in flight.

Starting in October, a research team led by John Gallagher, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science, will build and bash small flyers in a laboratory to see how they adapt and how engineers can observe, measure and predict what they do.

The team includes researchers at Purdue University in Indiana and Portland State University in Oregon, with the collaboration of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air