• Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
  • Chancellor EDGES Fellow
  • Affiliated Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
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Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland – 2010
  • M.Tech., Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay – 2004
  • B.Tech., Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay – 2003

Research Interests

    • Design, development and autonomous control of high performance next generation aircraft at small (MAVs/UAVs) and full scales.
    • Energy efficient green aviation 
    • High efficiency vertical axis wind turbines

Awards & Honors

  • Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Research Impact Award, College of Engineering – 2022
  • Dean of Engineering Excellence Award at Associate Professor level, College of Engineering – 2022

Selected Publications

  • Benedict, M., et al. “Intelligent Vision-based Autonomous Ship Landing of VTOL UAVs,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 68 (2), Pages 113-126, April 2023
  • Benedict, M., et al. “A control scheme for 360°thrust vectoring of cycloidal propellers with forward speed,” Ocean Engineering, 249, April 2022
  • Benedict, M., et al. “Nonlinear Aeroelastic Analysis for Highly Flexible Flapping Wing in Hover,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 67 (2), Pages 1-15, April 2022
  • Benedict, M., et al. “Understanding Upward Scalability of Cycloidal Rotors for Large-Scale UAS Applications,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 67 (4), Pages 1-15, October 2022
  • Benedict, M., et al. “Design, development, and flight testing of a tube-launched coaxial-rotor based micro air vehicle,” International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, September 2022
  • Benedict, M., et al. "Design of a Carbon Fiber Rotor in a Dual Rotor Axial Flux Motor for Electric Aircraft," IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Pages 1-8, October 2022
  • Benedict, M., et al. “Nonlinear aeroelastic coupled trim analysis of a twin-cyclocopter in forward flight,” American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal, 59 (1), January 2021
  • Benedict, M., et al. “A Deep Reinforcement Learning Control Strategy for Vision-based Ship Landing of Vertical Flight Aircraft,” American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AVIATION Forum, July 2021
  • Benedict, M., et al. “Cycloidal Rotor-Blade Tip-Vortex Analysis at Low Reynolds Number,” American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal, 58 (6), May 2020
  • Benedict, M., et al. “Understanding Unsteady Aerodynamics of Cycloidal Rotors in Hover at Ultra-low Reynolds Numbers,” American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Jan 2018
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