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Dr. Robert M. McKillip, Jr.,   Senior Associate

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Background
  • Joined CDI in 1992.
  • Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, 1984
  • M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, 1980
  • B.S.E. Princeton University, NJ, 1978
Research Interests
    Dr. McKillip has led research programs on modeling, simulation, instrumentation and control of a variety of aerospace systems that have included rotorcraft, fixed-wing aircraft, UAVs and ejection seats. He has developed actuation systems incorporating Shape Memory Alloy materials that provide discrete control functions and operate with extremely small power requirements, miniature instrumentation packages for on-blade helicopter sensing, computer software for networked simulation and visualization applications, and embedded control systems for in-flight data processing.
Professional Societies and Honors
  • Member: AIAA (Senior Member), AHS (Gold Circle Member), IEEE, AOPA, PRA
  • Recipient of American Helicopter Society Vertical Flight Foundation Scholarship
Selected Publications
  • "Remotely Controllable Actuating Device", U.S. Patent No. 5,752,672, May 19, 1998.
  • "Actuating Device with Multiple Stable Positions", (with A. Bilanin) U.S. Patent No. 6,220,550, April 24, 2001.
  • "Aircraft Icing Detection System," U.S. Patent No. 6,304,194, Oct. 16, 2001.
  • "Dynamic Interface Simulation using a Coupled Vortex-Based Ship Airwake and Rotor Wake Model," (with A. Boschitsch, T. Quackenbush, J. Keller, and D. Wachspress), Proc. 58th AHS Annual Forum, Montreal, Canada, June 2002.
  • "A Novel Instrumentation System for Measurement of Helicopter Rotor Motion and Loads Data," Proc. 58th AHS Annual Forum, Montreal, Canada, June 2002.
  • "A Novel Software/Hardware Hybrid System for Advanced Ejection Seat Control," CDI Report 97-03, June 1997.
  • "Distributed Multi-Vehicle Simulation Including High-Order Airwake Representation," (with A. Boschitsch, T. Quackenbush, J. Keller, D. Wachspress and G. Whitehouse) Proc. 60th AHS Annual Forum, June 2004
  • "'Digital' SMA-Based Trailing Edge Tab Actuators for Aerospace Applications", Proc. 38th Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium, Langley Research Center, May 15-17, 2006.