The Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics (CEAA) at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and Stanford University aims to collaboratively provide global-impact research results and advanced technology developments. From its inception, the CEAA was established to be a world-class research effort to enable advancements in space and aeronautical technology applications contributing to the transformation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-driven society. In order to solve these complex challenges, the CEAA draws from a number of multidisciplinary expert scientists in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Physics, and Electrical Engineering, as well as some application specific domains. This interdisciplinary team structure allows for the precise execution of both innovative scientific research and advanced technology development of cutting-edge aircraft designs and spacecraft technology applications, in addition to improving educational infrastructure in aerospace physics. CEAA’s current research projects focus on emerging topics of pressing interest, which are well aligned with the Kingdom’s global push to raise its technological profile. These include developing new “green propellants”, performing synergistic experimental and numerical studies of bio-inspired flapping robotic winged Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), executing collaborative efforts in numerical and experimental studies of advanced system identification and control of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
This project addresses the design and implementation of automatic control systems for aircraft with large flight envelopes, using a novel system ...
The goal of this project is to investigate and design novel Guidance, Navigation and Control approaches ...
The goal of this project is to develop a high fidelity computational technology that has the capability to accurately model and simulate the aerodynamic...
Traditionally, most efforts for improving aircraft aerodynamic efficiency have focused on shape optimization for a given structural concept.
A small-scale UAV was equipped with a number of differential pressure sensors distributed on the wing, and data was collected in stall/spin maneuvers ...
Certain types of ionic liquids have shown energetic properties in combination with select oxidizers. Due to their low vapor pressure and hydrolytic stability ...
29 March 2015
CEAA hosted the first annual workshop at the KACST headquarters from March 29th – 31st ...
26 April 2015
Every year the KACST faculty and researchers have the opportunity to showcase their research to the public...
15 May 2015
The SACB graduation ceremony and career fair was held at the Ottawa Convention Center from May ...