Masters Thesis: Integrating Trajectory Optimization into Tilt-Wing Guidance & Control

What to expect

At the Institute of Flight Systems, we develop new flight control methods for unconventional aircraft configurations. A focus area of our research is transformational aircraft, which are characterized by a large flight envelope, a high degree of overactuation, and a complex transition maneuver between hover and cruise flight states. Until now, our work is primarily simulation-based and covers modeling, flight physics analyses, and flight control of a tilt-wing aircraft, with a special focus on the challenging transition phase. Offline trajectory optimization based on ...