Event Time: October 21, 2026 | 10-11 am PDT
Overview:
What does a GNC engineer need from aerodynamic data when an aircraft must perform across vertical flight, transition, and efficient fixed-wing cruise?
Join Mark Sauder, Lead GNC Engineer at PteroDynamics, and Dheeraj Vemula of Luminary for a joint conversation about the demands of flight development and where Physics AI can help engineering teams move faster.
Using aircraft development as the application context, the discussion will explore how faster, denser aerodynamic predictions can support control-law development, simulation, and verification while keeping high-fidelity physics at the center of the workflow.
What You'll Learn:
- The aerodynamic-data needs of an autonomous VTOL program
- What makes transition flight and changing configurations challenging for GNC teams
- Where Physics AI can help accelerate control development, simulation, and verification
- What engineers need to see before trusting AI-based aerodynamic predictions
Who Should Attend:
- GNC and flight-controls engineers developing control laws or autopilots
- Flight-dynamics and 6-DoF simulation engineers
- Aerodynamics and CFD engineers responsible for aerodynamic databases
- Vehicle-performance, stability-and-control, and mission-analysis teams
- Technical leaders developing autonomous aircraft, VTOL systems, and advanced UAS platforms
About PteroDynamics:
PteroDynamics develops autonomous vertical takeoff and landing aircraft based on its Transwing® platform. The aircraft transitions between vertical and horizontal flight using a folding-wing architecture designed to combine fixed-wing speed, range, and endurance with VTOL flexibility.
