ase & em | faculty

Bruce K. Walker

Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics
ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Office: 728 Rhodes Hall
Mailing address: P.O. Box 210070, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0070
Phone: (513) 556-3552
Fax: (513) 556-5038
Email: Bruce dot Walker at uc dot edu
Website: http://www.ase.uc.edu/~bwalker

M, W, & F 9:00 - 10:30 a.m., 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

• 20 AEEM 313 001 MOD AND SIM PHY SYS, 05A
• ?20 AEEM 693 001 ADV FLIGHT MECH, 05A
• 20 AEEM 382 001 AERO VEHICLE PERF, 06W
• 20 AEEM 452 001 FLIGHT MECHANICS, 06W
• 20 AEEM 382 001 AERO VEHICLE PERF, 06S
• 20 AEEM 452 001 FLIGHT MECHANICS, 06S

• Fault detection, fault-tolerant control systems, parameter estimation, adaptive control, failure modes analysis, and applications to flight control, jet and rocket engine control, automotive engine control, and diagnostic systems.

• B.K. Walker, S.M. Jeng, P.D. Orkwis, G.L. Slater, P.K. Khosla and G.J. Simitses, "Redesigning an Aerospace Engineering Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century: Results of a Survey," J. Engineering Education, vol. 87, no. 4, pp. 481-487, October 1998.
• K.T. Moore, B.A. Naylor, B.K. Walker, A. Nayfeh and P.K. Khosla, "A Simple Model for and Object-Oriented Simulation of Interacting Fluid and Structural Dynamics of Feedline Systems with Weakened or Cracked Elements," accepted by Computer Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 111-122, May 1998.
• P.D. Orkwis, B.K. Walker, S.M. Jeng, P.K. Khosla, G.L. Slater and G.J. Simitses, "Horizontal and Vertical Integration of Design: An Approach to Curriculum Revision," Intl. J. Engineering Education, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 220-226, 1997.
• J. Garcia-Velo and B.K. Walker, "Aerodyamic Parameter Estimation for High Performance Aircraft Using Extended Kalman Filter," J. Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 1257-1260, Sept.-Oct. 1997.
• B.K. Walker, "Fault Tolerant Control System Reliability and Performance Prediction Using Semi-Markov Models," in Patton and Chen (eds.), Preprints of SAFEPROCESS'97 (Hull, UK), IFAC, pp. 1056-1067, August 1997.
• B.K. Walker, J.E. Wade, P.D. Orkwis, S.-M. Jeng, P.K. Khosla and G.L. Slater, "Development of a Proposed Aerospace Engineering Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century," 35th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting (Reno), AIAA paper 97-0737, January 1997.
• B.K. Walker and K.-Y. Huang, "Fault Detection and Isolation by Extended Kalman Filter Parameter Estimation for the Industrial Actuator Benchmark," Control Engineering Practice, vol. 3, no. 12, pp. 1769-1774, December 1995.
• B.K. Walker, L. Wang, X. Wang and C. Li, "A Review of Advanced Propulsion Health Management Technology in Aerospace," Proc. of IFAC International Conf. on Intelligent and Autonomous Control in Aerospace (IACA '95), Beijing, CHINA, August 1995.
• J. Garcia-Velo and B.K. Walker, "Aerodynamic Parameter Estimation for High Performance Aircraft Using Extended Kalman Filtering," Proc. of AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conf. (Baltimore), AIAA paper # 95-3500, August 1995.
• P.D. Orkwis, S.M. Jeng, B.K. Walker, G.L. Slater, P.K. Khosla and G.J. Simitses, "Designing a New Aerospace Curriculum: The Process," 1995 ASEE Annual Conf. Proc. (Anaheim), vol. 1, pp. 76-83, June 1995.
• B.K. Walker, S.M. Jeng, P.D. Orkwis, G.L. Slater, P.K. Khosla and G.J. Simitses, "Educating Aerospace Engineers for the Twenty-First Century: Results of a Survey," 1995 ASEE Annual Conf. Proc. (Anaheim), vol. 1, pp. 66-75, June 1995.
• J. Garcia-Velo and B.K. Walker, "Application of Filtering Methods to Parameter Identification of High Performance Aircraft," 14th IASTED Conf. on Modeling, Identification and Control (Innsbruck, AUSTRIA), Paper # 226-187, IASTED, February 1995.
• B.K. Walker and K.-Y. Huang, "FDI by Extended Kalman Filter Parameter Estimation for the Industrial Actuator Benchmark," in: T. Ruokonen (ed.), IFAC Symp. on Fault Detection, Supervision, and Safety for Technical Processes - SAFEPROCESS '94 (Espoo, Finland), pp. 507-513, Intl. Fed. of Auto. Control Publications, Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK, June 1994.
• J. Garcia-Velo and B.K. Walker, "Aircraft Parameter Identification Using Extended Kalman Filtering," Proc. of Matlab Conf. '93 (Boston), The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, October 1993.
• B.K. Walker, "Evaluating Performance and Reliability of Automatically Reconfigurable Aerospace Systems Using Markov Modeling Techniques," in: T. Aldemir, N.O. Siu, A. Mosleh, P.C. Cacciabue, & B.G. Goktepe (eds.), Reliability and Safety Assessment of Dynamic Process Systems, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1993.
• K.T. Moore, B.A. Naylor, B.K. Walker, A.H. Nayfeh and P.K. Khosla, "A Simple Model Interacting Fluid and Structural Dynamics of a Ring Manifold with Weakened or Cracked Elements," Proc. of 5th Annual Health Monitoring Conf. for Space Propulsion Systems (Cincinnati), pp. 113-127, April 1993.
• R. Srichander and B.K. Walker, "Stochastic Stability Analysis for Continuous Time Fault Tolerant Control Systems," International Journal of Control, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 433-452, February 1993.
• B.A. Naylor, K.T. Moore, B.K. Walker, A.H. Nayfeh and P.K. Khosla, "A Simple Model Interacting Fluid and Structural Dynamics of Feedline Systems with Weakened or Cracked Elements," Proc. of 4th Annual Health Monitoring Conf. for Space Propulsion Systems (Cincinnati), pp. 270-296, November 1992.
• J.H. Buckland, J.L. Musgrave and B.K. Walker, "On-Line Implementation of Nonlinear Parameter Estimation for the Space Shuttle Main Engine," Proc. of 4th Annual Health Monitoring Conf. for Space Propulsion Systems (Cincinnati), pp. 229-240, November 1992 (also NASA TM 106097).