ONGOING ACTIVITIES

• Electric and hybrid-electric aircraft design, analysis, and operations.
• Design of innovative fixed-wing and rotary-wing configurations.
• Strategies for electric and hybrid-electric fleet switching.
• Contactless rotor flapping measurement systems.
• Simulation of low-noise rotorcraft terminal trajectories.
• Cockpit instrumentation for rotorcraft noise monitoring (Pilot Acoustic Indicator).
• Optimal propeller design.
• Rotorcraft control, dynamics, and aeroelasticity.
• Comprehensive Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) system for light aircraft.
• Flight testing for the development and certification of a new ultralight aircraft.
• Optimal trajectory planning for agricultural and environmental aerial missions.
• Automated flight test procedures for UAVs.

FUTURE PLANS

• Electric rotorcraft design and simulation.
• Continuing enhancement of comprehensive rotorcraft simulation tools.
• Validation of a novel formulation for airplane trim and stability through flight testing.

ERC KEYWORDS

• PE8-1 Aerospace engineering
• PE8-4 Computational engineering
• PE7-1 Control engineering
• PE7-3 Simulation engineering and modelling

FREE KEYWORDS

• Aircraft design.
• Electric propulsion in aviation.
• Fixed-wing aircraft modelling and simulation.
• Rotary-wing aircraft modelling and simulation.
• Trajectory optimization.
• Onboard sensor systems.
• Cockpit instrumentation.
• Flight testing.