NASA Postdoctoral Program - Control System Development and Testing for Electrified Aircraft Technology

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. This specific position focuses on supporting the development and application of a system-in-the-loop test rig for control design maturation for electrified aircraft technology. NASA supports the development of safer, more efficient, and higher performing commercial aircraft propulsion systems incorporating novel control strategies, actuators, and system architectures. Development and maturation of control algorithms is critical to achieving the potential benefits of these systems. The work will involve modeling and test capabilities to support this maturation, from control algorithm theoretical formulation and analysis to testing algorithms in real-time on representative target hardware or in system-in-the-loop environments. The position will also involve processing and disseminating relevant test data and results.