Atanu Halder, Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station, 2019
M.S., Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 2014
B.S., Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 2014
Research Interests
- Design, development and control of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles and e-VTOL platforms
- Rotorcraft Aeromechanics
- Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
- Structural Dynamics and Control
- Unsteady Aerodynamics
- Machine Learning & Neural Network
Awards and Recognition
- One of the 5 phase-II winners globally for the $2M Boeing GoFly Prize
- One of the 10 phase-I winners (from 600+ global entries) for the $2M Boeing GoFly Prize
- Best Paper Award in the Modeling and Simulation session (AIAA Aviation Conference 2019).
- American Helicopter Society’s Vertical Flight Foundation (VFF) Scholarship (2018)
- Best Paper Award in the Modeling and Simulation Session(s) in the 73rd Annual National Forum of the American Helicopter Society (2017)
- Texas A&M University Future Faculty Fellow (2017)
- Institute Silver medal, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2014)
- Best designers award, Aeromodelling Competition, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (2011)
- Merit-cum-Means Scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (2011)
- Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resource Development, of India (2009-2011)
Courses Taught
- MAE 3724 Systems Dynamics and Introduction to Control
Selected Publications
- Halder, , & Benedict, M. (2022). Understanding upward scalability of cycloidal rotors for large-scale UAS applications. Journal of the American Helicopter Society. https://doi.org/10.4050/JAHS.67.042002
- Desai, , Halder, A., Benedict, M., & Young, Y. L. (2022). A control scheme for 360° thrust vectoring of cycloidal propellers with forward speed. Ocean Engineering, 249, 110833.
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.110833
- Yang, , Sudhir, A., Halder, A., & Benedict, M. (2022). Nonlinear Aeroelastic Analysis for Highly Flexible Flapping Wing in Hover. Journal of the American Helicopter Society. https://doi.org/10.4050/JAHS.67.022002
- Coleman, D., Halder, A., Saemi, F., Runco, C., Denton, H., Lee, B., Subramanian, V., Greenwood, , Lakshminaryan, V., Benedict, M. (2021, May). Development of “Aria”, a Compact, Ultra-Quiet Personal Electric Helicopter. In Proceedings of 77th Annual Forum of the Vertical Flight Society.
- Halder, , & Benedict, M. (2021). Nonlinear Aeroelastic Coupled Trim Analysis of a Twin Cyclocopter in Forward Flight. AIAA Journal, 59(1), 305-319. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J059122
- Halder, , & Benedict, M. (2018). Role of Blade Flexibility on Cycloidal Rotor Hover Performance. Journal of Aircraft, 55(5), 1773-1791. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.C034712
- Halder, A., Walther, C., & Benedict, M. (2018). Hydrodynamic modeling and experimental validation of a cycloidal propeller. Ocean Engineering, 154, 94-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2017.12.069
- Halder, , Giri, D. K., & Sinha, M. (2014). Adaptive Integrator Backstepping Control for Magnetically Actuated Satellite. IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 47(1), 255-262.https://doi.org/10.3182/20140313-3-IN-3024.00188