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Chief Technology Officer at Moog, focusing on the combination of technology development…
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Additive Manufacturing and Supply Chains of the Future
Additive Manufacturing and Supply Chains of the Future
By George Small
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Certification of Production Additive Manufactured Parts
Certification of Production Additive Manufactured Parts
By George Small
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A New Way of looking at Metal Additive Manufacturing
A New Way of looking at Metal Additive Manufacturing
By George Small
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“The high vibration, shock, and acceleration levels present on hypersonic vehicles calls upon extensive design and analysis expertise, which Moog has…
“The high vibration, shock, and acceleration levels present on hypersonic vehicles calls upon extensive design and analysis expertise, which Moog has…
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Decarbonisation acceleration. Innovation awards INTERMAT Paris and Moog Construction taking center stage. Very proud of my colleagues.
Decarbonisation acceleration. Innovation awards INTERMAT Paris and Moog Construction taking center stage. Very proud of my colleagues.
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Experience
Education
Publications
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Robotics and Autonomy: Force Control for Active Chassis Balancing
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics ( Volume: PP, Issue: 99 )
This paper presents the realization of the worldwide first automated walking excavator chassis. To this end, the authors build a new generation of high-performance hydraulic valves with integrated pressure feedback to achieve fast and accurate cylinder force tracking. This allows to automatically adapt the legs to uneven terrain and to optimally shape the ground reaction forces in order to change orientation and height of the cabin. Due to the contact redundancy, automated balancing is…
This paper presents the realization of the worldwide first automated walking excavator chassis. To this end, the authors build a new generation of high-performance hydraulic valves with integrated pressure feedback to achieve fast and accurate cylinder force tracking. This allows to automatically adapt the legs to uneven terrain and to optimally shape the ground reaction forces in order to change orientation and height of the cabin. Due to the contact redundancy, automated balancing is implemented as a contact force optimization problem including constraints on contact forces and joint torques. The corresponding prioritized optimization problem can be simplified by using a quasi-static approximation of the system dynamics and a complexity reduction due to the kinematic structure of the legs. Our approach considers the unknown configuration and load of the cabin, arm, and bucket as system disturbances, whereby gravitational effects are approximated as well as possible. It is tested in a Gazebo simulation and validated in different experiments using a prototype walking excavator machine. The proposed method revolutionizes operator control of these versatile but complex multi-purpose vehicles: instead of manual and coordinatively very demanding cylinder position adjustment, the operator can command simple high-level commands like cabin pose. Furthermore, it significantly reduces peak forces in the cylinders and at the contact points, which causes less damage to the mechanics and the ground.Other authors -
Patents
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Secure and Traceable Manufactured Parts
Filed US 15/600,576
Projects
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Blockchain for Supply Chain - Moog Innovation Initiative
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Co-lead for Blockchain for Supply Chain project, a Moog Innovation Initiative leveraging our global supply chain and additive manufacturing experience.
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This week I have been pleased to show an RCOTS EMA at Transport Research Arena (TRA) . Hummingbird Aero LLC developed the RCOTS framework of flight…
This week I have been pleased to show an RCOTS EMA at Transport Research Arena (TRA) . Hummingbird Aero LLC developed the RCOTS framework of flight…
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Very exciting week in Ireland showing Hummingbird Aero's new RCOTS (Rapidly Configurable Off the Shelf) primary flight control actuator! Appreciate…
Very exciting week in Ireland showing Hummingbird Aero's new RCOTS (Rapidly Configurable Off the Shelf) primary flight control actuator! Appreciate…
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Appreciation post to the brave women and men who allow us to live free. Natalie's grandfather (Anthony Occhino) was a B-17 Radio Operator and Gunner…
Appreciation post to the brave women and men who allow us to live free. Natalie's grandfather (Anthony Occhino) was a B-17 Radio Operator and Gunner…
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Genesys Aerosystems , a Moog Inc. company, announced today at Vertical Aviation International HAI Heli-Expo that it has completed an memorandum of…
Genesys Aerosystems , a Moog Inc. company, announced today at Vertical Aviation International HAI Heli-Expo that it has completed an memorandum of…
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I am so excited to announce our partnership with Genesys Aerosystems, a Moog Inc. company. Our team at Daedalean AI is laser-focused on delivering…
I am so excited to announce our partnership with Genesys Aerosystems, a Moog Inc. company. Our team at Daedalean AI is laser-focused on delivering…
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Today, I got to share some Buffalo love for Engineering at Moog and National Engineering Week with Channel 4 News at the Science Center.
Today, I got to share some Buffalo love for Engineering at Moog and National Engineering Week with Channel 4 News at the Science Center.
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I am so proud and excited to be part of the Moog Inc and Bell Flight team to bring this new aircraft to the warfighter.
I am so proud and excited to be part of the Moog Inc and Bell Flight team to bring this new aircraft to the warfighter.
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Very happy to share that our team has conducted its first unmanned flights of a Group 4 UAV! Congrats to all those involved and there's nothing but…
Very happy to share that our team has conducted its first unmanned flights of a Group 4 UAV! Congrats to all those involved and there's nothing but…
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Today we are excited to announce the preview of Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture (building on top of the previous research on Project…
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