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Be Boulder!
2017/10/17
Exchange Program with the University of Colorado Boulder
In cooperation with our partner Jeppesen we offer students from the department of mechanical engineering with focus on aviation the opportunity to go abroad. Included are two trimesters at the University of Colorado at Boulder as well as an internship with Jeppesen in Denver. Applications must be due by November 30th, 2017, and should be sent to the MechCenter. A general information session on international exchange programs offered by the department of engineering will be held on October 25th, at 18.00 in L4|02-201. Additionally we offer a specific information session on the Boulder exchange program on Friday, November 10h, at 15.00 in L1|01-562K.
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Student Assistant for carrying out experiments on an actuator test rig
2017/10/13
Das Institut für Flugsysteme und Regelungstechnik baut einen Prüfstand zur Untersuchung von elektromechanischen Aktuatoren auf. Über eine mechanische Strecke ist ein Lastaktuator integriert, welcher die Aufbringung dynamischer Lastprofile auf den Prüfling ermöglicht. Die integrierte Sensorik bildet den Grundstein für die Regelung und Überwachung der Versuche. Für den Betrieb des Prüfstands kommt Hardware von National Instruments zum Einsatz, weshalb die Versuchsdurchführung und Datenerfassung über LabVIEW implementiert wird. Eine spätere Verarbeitung der Daten findet in MATLAB/Simulink statt.
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Student Assistant for the tutorial “Cockpitgestaltung”
2017/09/19
Seit dem Wintersemester 2016/2017 wird am Institut für Flugsysteme und Regelungstechnik das jährlich stattfindende Tutorium Cockpitgestaltung angeboten. Die Studierenden bearbeiten hierbei im Team eine Aufgabenstellung aus dem Bereich der allgemeinen, geschäftlichen oder kommerziellen Luftfahrt. Auf der Grundlage von funktionellen und ergonomischen Anforderungen wird ein eigener Cockpitentwurf entwickelt, mittels CAD-Software visualisiert und eine abschließende Evaluierung durchgeführt.
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Student Assistant for Lecture Automatic Control
2017/08/15
Im kommenden Wintersemester 2017/18 findet wieder die Lehrveranstaltung „Systemtheorie und Regelungstechnik“ für alle Bachelor-Studenten/innen im fünften Semester des Studien- gangs „Mechanical and Process Engineering“ statt. Hierfür werden Tutoren/innen gesucht, die den Übungsbetrieb unterstützen und aktiv mitgestalten sollen.
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Student Assistant in the Field of Innovative Taxi Technologies
2017/08/15
The Institute of Flight Systems and Automatic Control (FSR) is now looking for a student assistant in the field of innovative taxi technologies. The projects deal with the assessment of future taxi procedures and the evaluation of trajectory-based dispatch towing operations.
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Integration of a Condition Monitoring System into the FSR-X8 Multirotor Research Copter
2017/08/08
ADP
Multirotor UAVs offer a wide range of applications in numerous business areas. The economic benefits for civil applications are, however, often only achievable with the aid of semi-autonomously systems. These systems do not need pilots and manual flight scheduling, thus saving high personnel and training costs. To increase the system’s safety, a research project at FSR deals with a condition-based determination of small multicopter’s actual flight performance. Knowledge of the actual flight performance enables an evaluation of mission risk for adaptive mission planners or an optimization of parameters for adaptive flight controllers.
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Measurement Campaign for Evaluating Ground Noise on Airports
2017/10/27
ADP / ARP
Due to increasing air traffic passenger volumes and the associated expansion of airports (e.g. Frankfurt am Main), airborne noise is becoming a major issue. But the problem is not only noise produced by overflying aircraft, ground noise emitted by taxiing aircraft as well as engine tests also play a major role and can pose a disturbance to the population living in the immediate vicinity of the airport. An introduction of electromobile technologies for towing and taxiing of aircraft aims to reduce the level of the ambient noise.
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Generate Situation Awareness in Order to Support Pilot Decision-Making
2017/07/28
In the future cockpit, only one pilot may operate the aircraft during the cruise phase (“Reduced Crew Operations”). At FSR, the “Future Flight Deck” project currently investigates if and how such a scenario with only one pilot could be implemented. Autonomous systems will assume functions of the second pilot in order to reduce the workload of the remaining pilot.
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Development of a Model for the Flight Control of a Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
2017/07/18
Master's Thesis
Many aircrafts are inherent over-actuated regarding their control signals. Especially in the context of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) such redundancies could be helpful to facilitate licensing for commercial operations over inhabited areas. Therefore, new fault-tolerant control algorithms are to be developed and tested at the Institute of Flight Systems and Automatic Control using the example of hybrid UAVs. The object of research is a fixed-wing pusher configuration with four additional rotors, which enables it to vertically take-off and land (VTOL-UAV).
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Fault detection and isolation for an over-actuated flight system
2017/07/18
Master's Thesis
Many aircrafts are inherent over-actuated regarding their control signals. This can be advantageous especially in the context of unmanned aircrafts, where failures of certain actuator functions might occur in critical situations. In such cases, the redundant actuators can be used to fulfill the controller's objectives, thus increasing the overall operational safety. To test such methods new fault-tolerant control algorithms are developed at the Institute of Flight Systems and Automatic Control using the example of over-actuated flight systems.