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Paolo Castaldi

Professore associato

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Energia Elettrica e dell'Informazione "Guglielmo Marconi"

Settore scientifico disciplinare: IINF-04/A Automatica

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THESIS IN COLLABORATION WITH DELPH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

The following thesis opportunities can be available in collaboration

between this course  "AGCAS" and 

the AErospace RObust CONtrol group for MSc students,

DELPH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

 

  1. AEROCON topics
    Robustness analysis tools for aircraft flight control laws [A-DESK]
    Design of guidance laws using control theoretic tools [F-DESK]
    Flight testing of a pitch rate CAS for the PH LAB using H_∞ loop shaping robust control [A-LAB]
    Improvement of longitudinal HQ for the PH LAB using H_2 – LQG/LTR [A-SIM]
    Improvement of longitudinal HQ for the PH LAB using robust adaptive control [A-DESK]
    Lateral-directional SAS for fighter aircraft (F-16/ADMIRE) [A-DESK]
    Development of an AEROCON Control Toolbox [A-F-DESK]
    Flight control for hypersonic vehicles [A-DESK]
  2. Collab topics
    Optimization of robust flight control laws via AI (collab prof. van Kampen) [A-F-DESK]
    Simulated testing for the TU Delft Flying-V prototype (collab Flying-V team) [A-SIM]
    UAV Control (collab NYUAD) [TBD]
    Helicopter flight dynamics & control (collab prof. Marilena Pavel) [TBD]
  3. Industry topics
    Flight dynamics and control for a VTOL UAV (collab ALTUS/HAI)* [TBD]
    Gain-scheduled attitude control for fast launcher mission preparation (collab ESA)* [A-DESK]
    LPV tensor-based flight dynamics modeling for launch vehicles (collab ASTOS)* [F-A-DESK]
    Flight control design for air-defense systems (collab TNO)* [A-DESK]


    [F] Fundamental / [A] Applied / [DESK] Desktop-based / [SIM] Piloted simulation / [LAB] Flight test