Our research topics on automated air transportation

Safety Management Systems (SMS)

Systematic development of Safety Management Systems; application of human error models and information flow models  

Harmonization of legal environment, international and company rules and educational / technical culture 

Airspace capacity

• Evaluation of models for airspace capacity; definition of optimal parameter sets
• Simulations for airspace capacity
• Application of human workload/error behavior models for ATC; investigation of the relationship with SMS

Application of Control theory and vehicle science

• Mathematical modeling of aircrafts and rotorcrafts
• Motion simulation of aircrafts and rotorcrafts
• System identification and reduction
• Control theory applications
• Design of optimal and robust controls for linear an nonlinear systems
• Application of PID, LQ, Model predictive and H∞ theory
• Fault detection, reconfiguration and adaptive control
• Switching control
• Cooperative control solutions