Guidance,navigationand control.
I design control systems and then measure them — a genetic algorithm that tunes flight-control gains and reports what its own settings cost, and a UAV sized and generated from a parametric twin.
Final-year aerospace engineering at RMIT, heading for guided weapons and flight systems R&D. Everything below is my own work, and every number on this site says where it came from — weighed, computed or simulated — and what it was measured against.
- GA spread across seeds, tighter
- 26 ×
- GA escaped the decoys to the true well
- 28/50 seeds
- UAV all-up weight
- 1368 g
- UAV endurance at cruise
- 34.7 min
Meta-tuned preset against the best hand-written one: IQR 3.4e-5 against 8.9e-4, 5 seeds, equal 5 000-evaluation budget
The escape preset on a 2-D decoy map, against 10 / 50 for standard
Against a hard 1500 g cap, from 13 of 13 physically measured components
Computed on measured masses and a modelled drag polar
Measured against limits
Each bar is the band a figure had to land inside, and the mark is where it landed.
Every preset had the same 5 000-evaluation cap; this one stopped at its own generation limit on every seed, 36 % of what thorough spent.
132 g of margin against a hard cap, on physically measured masses.
The window was re-cut once the neutral point was found at 47.5 % MAC; the original 25 to 30 % target was arithmetically incompatible with the static margin it was meant to deliver.
Work
Two pieces, each taken far enough to produce numbers: MasterGA, a genetic algorithm for flight-control gain tuning that measures its own settings, and VTX-1, a UAV sized and generated from a parametric twin, now in build.
MasterGA
A genetic algorithm that tunes its own settings, grown out of a flight-control capstone.
A modular genetic-algorithm system in MATLAB: plug-in plants and fitness profiles, a preset ladder from a 100-evaluation smoke test to a calibrated multi-hour run, and a meta-GA that tunes the GA's own settings and measures what they cost.
VTX-1 Pathfinder
A fixed-wing surveillance UAV, sized from first principles and built from a parametric twin.
A twin-motor V-tail aircraft for autonomous area survey, sized in MATLAB, generated as a fully parametric digital twin, and printed and assembled from that twin.
Get in touch
I am looking for graduate and intern work in guidance, navigation and control, flight systems, or uncrewed aircraft.