Panagiotis Tsiotras
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Panagiotis Tsiotras is a professor of aerospace engineering
at Georgia Tech
. He has studied variable-speed control moment gyroscope
s in connection with flywheel energy storage and has built a spacecraft simulator based on them.
Aerospace engineering
Aerospace engineering is the primary branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. It is divided into two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering...
at Georgia Tech
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
. He has studied variable-speed control moment gyroscope
Control moment gyroscope
A control momentum gyroscope is an attitude control device generally used in spacecraft attitude control systems. A CMG consists of a spinning rotor and one or more motorized gimbals that tilt the rotor’s angular momentum. As the rotor tilts, the changing angular momentum causes a gyroscopic...
s in connection with flywheel energy storage and has built a spacecraft simulator based on them.