Daniel J. Alvarez

Staff Engineer, Research

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2005

M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, California State University, Long Beach, 2009

Since joining Systems Technology, Inc. (STI) in 2005, Mr. Alvarez has participated in a variety of fixed- and rotary-wing projects. He was technical lead for the development of Simulink/dSpace test software used for hardware-in-the-loop real time simulation of a fly-by-wire business jet flight control computer. Mr. Alvarez has conducted extensive flight test data reduction and analysis using industry standard system identification, participated in the aeroservoelastic analysis and oscillation reduction control design for fighter-type aircraft, assisted in the development of a multi-body tiltrotor dynamic model, and served as technical lead for STI’s support of control law development and analysis for the Navy’s new fly-by-wire cargo helicopter program.

Mr. Alvarez is a member of the American Helicopter Society handling qualities technical committee, an associate member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a member of Sigma Gamma Tau, the national honor society for aerospace engineering. Mr Alvarez’s thesis work at Long Beach State involved the development of classical and robust controllers using a model of the F-16 VISTA, with desktop simulation and a piloted simulation handling qualities study providing a comprehensive comparative analysis of the two design methodologies.

Selected Bibliography

D. J. Alvarez and B. Lu, PhD, “Comparison of Classical, H∞, and LPV Flight Control Design Methods, Part II: Piloted Simulation,” presented at AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2-5, 2010. (AIAA 2010-7941, STI-P-753)

D. J. Alvarez and B. Lu, PhD, “Comparison of Classical, H∞, and LPV Flight Control Design Methods, Part I: Desktop Analysis,” presented at AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2-5, 2010. (AIAA 2010-7940, STI-P-752)

D. H. Klyde, D. J. Alvarez, P. C. Schulze, T. H. Cox, and M. Dickerson, “Limited Handling Qualities Assessment of Very Large Aerial Tankers for the Wildfire Suppression Mission,” presented at AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2-5 August 2010. (AIAA 2010-7943, STI-P-750)

B. P. Danowsky, P. M. Thompson, Ph.D., D. J. Alvarez, C. Farhat, Ph.D., T. Lieu, Ph.D., and M. J. Brenner, “Optimal Input and Output Blending for Adaptive Suppression of Adverse Aeroservoelastic Dynamics,” presented at AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2-5, 2010. (AIAA 2010-7500, STI-P-751)

M. R. Guibert and D. J. Alvarez, “Next Generation Visualization Tool for Mission Planning, Briefing, and After Action Review,” presented at 4th Annual Southern California Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference, Santa Ana, CA, May 5, 2007. (STI-P-679-P)