The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech

Derya Aksaray

Derya Aksaray has been a graduate research assistant in Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory since August 2008, and she is currently a Ph.D. student in ASDL. She has completed her M.S. degree with a thesis on developing an autonomous trajectory-following algorithm for a hybrid micro vehicle, the Hopping Rotochute. She is currently doing research pertaining to aircraft design from a control point of view. Her non-technical interests include ballet, music, and travel.

Research Interests

  • Modeling & simulation, advanced design methodologies, control theory, and game theory.
  • Focus of concepts: Unmanned aerial vehicles, rotorcrafts and aircrafts.

Education

  • B.S., Aerospace Engineering, 2008, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, 2011, Georgia Institute of Technology

Publications

  • Aksaray, D., and Mavris, D., "Statistical Stability and Control Analysis To Investigate the Control Effort of Improving Handling Quality Characteristics", 28th International Congress of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS 2012), September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
  • Aksaray, D., Li, Y., and Mavris, D., "Development and Implementation of a Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision Making Technique", 11th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference, September 2011, Virginia Beach, VA, US
  • Mavris, D., Aksaray, D., Dufresne, S., Cole, B., Raczynski, C., Mian, Z., and Zarovy, S., "Micro-Autonomous Systems and Technologies Integrated Design, Analysis and Simulation", Ankara International Aerospace Conference (AIAC) 2009, August 2009, Ankara, Turkey

Thesis

Aksaray, D., "Autonomous Hopping Rotochute", MS Thesis, March 2011, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, US

Awards and Honors

  • Member of the Team awarded Best New Entrant in AHS Helicopter Design Competition, 2008
  • One of only 25 student participants from across all Europe invited to the EUROAVIA Design Workshop 2007, sponsored by University of Sheffield and Rolls Royce. (Winners were selected based on an academic paper competition.)

Memberships and Service

  • AHS - Student member of American Helicopter Society
  • AIAA - Student member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics