Kevin Wise

Award Received:

IEEE CSS Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control

Date Awarded:

2016

Boeing Phantom Works

United States

Kevin Wise

Biography

Kevin A. Wise is a VP, Distinguished Senior Technical Fellow, Flight Controls, in The Boeing Company, is President and CEO of Innovative Control Technologies (INNCON), LLC, and is a Chief Advisor at Kelda Dynamics in Norway. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1980, 82, and 87, respectively. Since joining Boeing in 1982, he has developed vehicle management systems, flight control systems, and control system design tools and processes for advanced piloted and unpiloted aircraft and weapon systems. Some programs include T-7A Redhawk, KC-46 Tanker boom, 777X, Dominator UAS, Phantom Eye Hydrogen Powered UAS, QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target, X-45 J-UCAS, X-36, SDB and JDAM, and HAVE SLICK. At INNCON, Dr. Wise teaches workshops in dynamics and control and has developed advanced drilling solutions leveraging aerospace technologies to improve oil and gas production, setting new drilling records in Texas. His research interests include intelligent autonomy and battle management, aircraft and missile dynamics and control, hypersonic GNC, robust adaptive control, optimal control, robustness theory, and intelligent drilling solutions. He has authored more than 100 technical articles and seven book chapters; he has published a textbook titled Robust and Adaptive Control Theory, with Aerospace Examples; and he teaches control theory at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Wise is a Hagler Institute Fellow at Texas A&M, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, is an IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow, and Fellow of the AIAA.

Affiliation(s)

Boeing Phantom Works

United States

Citation:

For contributions to the flight demonstration of the Phantom Eye high altitude long endurance UAV using robust adaptive control