KC Engineering, Inc. · Colorado Springs, CO

Engineering consulting for aerospace, controls and machine learning.

We help aerospace and energy organizations test vehicles, build models from data, and design control systems. The firm is led by Casey Fagley, Ph.D.

What we do Contact us

12+ years
of research with the U.S. Air Force Academy
Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wyoming, 2010
81 papers
20 journal articles and 60 conference papers, with DOIs
Hermeus, Atargis
Current and recent clients

What we do

Test it. Model it. Control it.

Most projects use one or more of three capabilities.

Selected work

Recent projects.

Many programs are not listed publicly.

Testing · High-speed flight vehicle development

Subsonic wind-tunnel testing for a high-speed flight vehicle

A multi-entry subsonic test campaign on a scaled vehicle model for Hermeus.

ML and data · Ocean renewables, wave energy

Wave prediction tool for a wave-energy converter

A PyTorch and Streamlit tool that predicts wave height seconds ahead from upstream sensors, for Atargis Energy.

Testing · Aircraft stability and control

Tailless aircraft stability with a bio-inspired rotating tail

Wind-tunnel tests of an F-16 with its vertical tail replaced by a rotating horizontal tail.

Testing · Controls · Aeroelasticity

Cyber-physical wind-tunnel testing of a flexible wing

A test method that feeds simulated flight loads to a wing held in the wind tunnel.

All projects

Relationships

Who we work with.

Most active programs are under restricted distribution and are not listed.

Research partner

U.S. Air Force Academy
Research with the Department of Aeronautics for over a decade: wind-tunnel testing, flow control, aeroelasticity and dynamic stability.

Clients

Hermeus
Subsonic wind-tunnel campaign for a high-speed flight vehicle.
Atargis Energy
Wave prediction tool and cycloidal wave-power hydrodynamics.

Funders named in the published record of our papers: AFOSR, NASA and the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Sectors

Research

Published work.

Journal articles and conference papers on testing, modeling and control.

2016

Cyber-physical flexible wing for aeroelastic investigations of stall and classical flutter

Casey Fagley, Jürgen Seidel, Thomas McLaughlin

Journal of Fluids and Structures 67, 34-47 (2016) · doi:10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2016.07.021

A wind-tunnel method that applies simulated aerodynamic loads in real time to a stationary flexible wing, so stall and flutter can be studied without flight tests.

J. Fluids & Structures Journal

2008

Low-dimensional modelling of a transient cylinder wake using double proper orthogonal decomposition

Stefan G. Siegel, Jürgen Seidel, Casey Fagley, D. M. Luchtenburg, Kelly Cohen, Thomas McLaughlin

Journal of Fluid Mechanics 610, 1-42 (2008) · doi:10.1017/s0022112008002115

A double-POD method that builds flow modes from transient data, shown on the flow behind a circular cylinder. Fagley is a co-author; the first author is S. G. Siegel.

J. Fluid Mechanics Journal

All 81 papers

Have a project in mind?

Tell us what you are trying to test, predict or control. Dr. Fagley reads every inquiry and replies within about one business day.