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Donald L.

NASA Glenn Research Center
21000 Brookpark Road, MS 77-1
Cleveland, Ohio 44135

phone: 216.433.3740
fax: 216.433.8643
email: donald.l.simon@grc.nasa.gov


Current Work

  • Piloted Control Evaluation Facility Upgrade
  • Compressor Stall Control
  • Monitoring SBIR Contract "Adaptive Optimization of Aircraft Engine Performance UsingNeural Networks"

Past Work/Accomplishments

  • Integrated Flight and Propulsion Control Methodology Piloted Evaluation
  • Intelligent Control System Evaluation
  • High Frequency Servosystem Evaluation and Control Design

Publications

Simon, Donald L., "A High Frequency Servosystem for Fuel Control in Hypersonic Engines", NASA TM-104333, August 1991.

Bright, Michelle M., Simon, Donald L., " The NASA Glenn Integrated Propulsion and Flight Control Simulator", NASA TM- 105147 and Proceedings of the AIAA Flight Simulation Technologies Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 12-14, 1991.

Simon, D.L., Wong, E., Musgrave, J.L., " Implementation of an Intelligent Control System", NASA TM-105795 and Proceedings of the Advanced Earth-to-Orbit Propulsion Technology Conference, Huntsville Alabama, May 19-21, 1992.

Bright, Michelle M., Simon, Donald L., " Piloted Evaluation of and Integrated Propulsion and Flight Control Simulator", NASA TM- 105797 and Proceedings of the AIAA Flight Simulation Technologies Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, August 24-26, 1992.

Simon, Donald L., Mattern, Duane L., Wong, Edmond, Musgrave, Jeffery L., "Distributed Simulation Using a Real-Time Shared Memory Network", NASA TM-106239, July 1993.

Bright, Michelle M., Simon, Donald L., " Piloted Evaluation of an Integrated Methodology for Propulsion and Airframe Control Design", NASA TM-106741 and Proceedings of the AIAA Flight Simulation Technologies Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, August 1-3, 1994.

Litt, Jonathan, Wong, Edmond, Simon, Donald L., "A Prototype Lisp-Based Soft Real-Time Object-Oriented Graphical User Interface for Control System Development", NASA TM-106743, October 1994.

Simon, Donald L., Long, Theresa W., "Adaptive Optimization of Aircraft Engine Performance Using Neural Networks", NASA TM- 107110, September 1995.


Biography

Education


Work Experience

1987 - Present : Employed as an Electronics Engineer in the U.S. Army Research Laboratory Vehicle Propulsion Directorate. Work in the NASA Glenn Advance Control and Dynamics Branch.

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