
Alok Menon Ph.D., Dr.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Aerospace Engineering · College of Engineering
Menon, A., Steck, J. E., Watkins, J., Namuduri, K., Kraus, K., and Farrington, Z., “Navigation Path Planning and Flight Rules in Simulated Air Corridors for Urban Air Mobility”, AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 2026.. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2026-1986
Manoharan, B., Kliment, L. K., and Menon, A., “Effective Use of Digital Elevation Models to Procure Ground Elevations”, AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2025, 2025.. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-3260
Rafi, M., Schmitz, J. M., Menon, A., Ross, R. H., Qamar, A., Steck, J., and Chakravarthy, A., “Piloted Simulator Evaluations of an Adaptive Loss-of-Control Avoidance Prediction Architecture and Augmented-Reality Pilot Advisory Display”, AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, 2020.. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-0758
Menon, A., Chakravarthy, A., Gruenwald, B. C., Yucelen, T., and Steck, J., “Modeling and Control of Uncertain Hybrid Structure Flexible, Morphing Wings with Stability and Performance Guarantees”, 2020.. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2020-1078
Menon, A., Chakravarthy, A., Gruenwald, B. C., and Yucelen, T., “Control of a FlexibleWing with Flaps Using a Set Theoretic Active-Passive Framework”, AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, 2019.. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-2340
Yucelen, T., Gruenwald, B. C., Dogan, K., Chakravarthy, A., and Menon, A., “Adaptive Control of Coupled Dynamical Systems: A Mixed State and Output Feedback Framework”, International Journal of Control, Vol. 94, 2019, pp. 1765–1783.. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207179.2019.1675908
Kostogorova-Beller, Y., Whitford, J., Dudley, K., Menon, A., Chakravarthy, A., and Steck, J., “A Study on Smart SansEC Skin Sensing for Real-Time Monitoring of Flexible Structures”, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 18, 2018, pp. 2836–2844.. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2018.2801251
Menon, A., Chakravarthy, A., and Nguyen, N., “Adaptive Control for Hybrid PDE Models Inspired from Morphing Aircraft”, AIAA Scitech 2018 Forum, 2018.. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-0872
Menon, A., Rafi, M., Schirmer, G., Tran, T., Whitford, J., Yodo, N., Kostogorova-Beller, Y., Steck, J., Chakravarthy, A., and Keshavanarayana, S., “Measurement of Wing Deflections in Flexible Aircraft Using the Sansec Smart Sensor”, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Vol. 32, 2017, pp. 14–23.. https://doi.org/10.1109/MAES.2017.160133
Menon, A., Whitford, J., Kostogorova-Beller, Y., Steck, J., and Chakravarthy, A., “Flexible Deflection Measurements Using the SansEC Smart Sensor”, AIAA Scitech 2017 Forum, 2017.. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2017-1586
Menon, A., Chakravarthy, A., Steck, J., and Nguyen, N., “Decentralized Optimal Adaptive Control Architectures for the VCCTEF Aircraft”, AIAA Scitech 2017 Forum, 2017.. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2017-1590
Rokhsaz, K., Kliment, L. K., and Menon, A., “Examination of Derived Gust Velocities from a Fleet of Aerial Supervision Module/Lead Aircraft”, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 54, 2017, pp. 1772–1778.. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.C033991
Menon, A., Kliment, L. K., Rokhsaz, K., Nelson, J., and Terning, B., “Flight Loads and Atmospheric Turbulence Analysis From a Fleet of ASM/Lead Aircraft”, 2015.. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2015-1845
Menon, A., “Operational Usage and Flight Loads Analysis of Three King Air Models Used as Lead Planes”, 2015.
Kliment, L. K., Rokhsaz, K., Menon, A., Nelson, J. A., Terning, B., and Weinstein, E. M., “Flight Loads Monitoring of USFS Aerial Supervision Modules”, 2014.. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2014-1204