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Safe Adaptive Dependable Aerospace Systems (SADAS)

SADAS – Affording safe, highly reliable and affordable automation for aerospace systems

In Aerospace applications specific challenges relate to extreme systems dynamics and to highest safety requirements. A key research topic therefore concerns innovative methods of resolution satisfying adaptive as well as real-time capabilities in order to achieve progress, e.g. with respect to networked formations of vehicles. Within this Focus Group the automation approaches addressing robust, reliable and affordable solutions at all modular integration levels that will be emphasized ranging from human assistance for a single vehicle up to highly automating control of distributed, decentralized, networked, self-organizing multi-vehicle systems. This comprises adaptive control and envelope protection as well as coordinated mission planning strategies. Due to the expertise in the team, the application range extends from vehicles via aircraft to space systems, and will offer interesting hardware demonstrators to assess and exhibit the achieved performance.

Progress in vehicle automation leads to application visions from Google’s self-driving cars to Amazon’s air vehicle-based fast delivery services. Despite first demonstrators are available, there is still significant research to be performed to achieve safe, highly reliable and affordable systems which satisfy the rigid requirements which are mandatory in the transportation business. Techniques for distributed, decentralized and networked control have been applied for different land, water, air up to space vehicles to achieve survivable, robust, modular and reconfigurable (multi-)vehicle systems in several precursor research projects. The Focus Group SADAS integrates the different complementary fields of competence in mechanical engineering, aerodynamics, flight system dynamics, control and embedded computers to achieve innovative results at aerospace system level in order to bridge the gap between theory and real flight applications.

At TUM-IAS this research area extends and synergizes results from the former Focus Groups Aircraft Stability and Control as well as Diesel Reloaded expanded by inclusion of the multi-vehicle systems topic.

The group leaders (key partners) were:

Dr. Matthias Heller was Expert Advisor “Flight Mechanics” of Airbus Defence & Space and as a Rudolf Diesel Industry Fellow of the IAS he had conducted the Focus Group Aircraft Stability and Control (2010 – 2013), where he had investigated new techniques in the field of Dynamics, Performance, Stability and Control of Innovative Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).

Prof. Florian Holzapfel is a professor for Flight System Dynamics at TUM and hosted the Focus Group Aircraft Stability and Control (2010 – 2013); now he is hosting the current (new) Focus Group “Safe Adaptive Dependable Aerospace Systems (SADAS)”.

Prof. Naira Hovakimyan is a professor for Aerospace, Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at University of Illinois. In 2014 she was selected as Alexander von Humboldt Research Awardee and is thus a Honorary Hans Fischer Senior Fellow of the TUM-IAS.

Prof. Klaus Schilling is a professor for Robotics and Telematics at the University Würzburg as well as a TUM-IAS Visiting Fellow. He currently holds an ERC Advanced Grant.

Prof. Gernot Spiegelberg works with Siemens Corporate Technology. As a Rudolf Diesel Industry Fellow of the TUM-IAS he developed the Diesel Reloaded Innotruck concept with Drive-by-Wire capability within the associated Focus Group (2010 – 2013).

TUM-IAS funded doctoral candidate:
Markus Geiser, Flight System Dynamics

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Publications by the Focus Group

2018

  • Kugler, Martin E.; Seiferth, David; Heller, Matthias; Holzapfel, Florian: Real-time monitoring of flight tests with a novel fixed-wing UAV by automatic flight guidance and control system engineers. 2018 4th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), IEEE, 2018 more…
  • Kügler, Martin E.; Heller, Matthias; Holzapfel, Florian: Automatic Take-off and Landing on the Maiden Flight of a Novel Fixed-Wing UAV. 2018 Flight Testing Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018 more…
  • Seiferth, David; Heller, Matthias; Holzapfel, Florian: Automatic safe area detection for novel unmanned air vehicle. 2018 4th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), IEEE, 2018 more…
  • Seiferth, David; Kügler, Martin E.; Heller, Matthias: In-Flight Verification of a model-based designed Ground Controller for an innovative Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV). 2018 Flight Testing Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018 more…
  • Weiser, Christian; Ossmann, Daniel; Heller, Matthias: In-Flight Validation of a Robust Flight Controller Featuring Anti-Windup Compensation. 2018 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018 more…

2017

  • Krause, Christoph; Holzapfel, Florian: Development of a generic loiter automation for a fixed wing UAV/OPV. 2017 11th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), IEEE, 2017 more…
  • Kugler, Martin E.; Holzapfel, Florian: Online self-monitoring of automatic take-off and landing control of a fixed-wing UAV. 2017 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), IEEE, 2017 more…
  • Kugler, Martin E.; Holzapfel, Florian: Autoland for a novel UAV as a state-machine-based extension to a modular automatic flight guidance and control system. 2017 American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE, 2017 more…
  • Kügler, Martin E.; Holzapfel, Florian: Parameterization and Computation of Automatic Take-off and Landing Trajectories for Fixed-Wing UAV. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2017 more…
  • Schilling, Klaus; Walter, Jürgen; Kounev, Samuel: Spacecraft Autonomous Reaction Capabilities, Control Approaches, and Self-aware Computing. In: Self-Aware Computing Systems. Springer International Publishing, 2017 more…
  • Seiferth, David; Chowdhary, G.; Muhlegg, M.; Holzapfel, F.: Online Gaussian Process regression with non-Gaussian likelihood. 2017 American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE, 2017 more…
  • Seiferth, David; Heller, Matthias: Testing and performance enhancement of a model-based designed ground controller for a diamond-shaped unmanned air vehicle (UAV). 2017 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), IEEE, 2017 more…
  • Seiferth, David; Kuchar, Richard; Heller, Matthias: Model-based design and real live on-runway testing of a ground controller for a novel diamond-shaped Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV). 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, 2017 more…
  • Vrdoljak, Milan; Viertler, Franz; Hajek, Manfred; Heller, Matthias: Helicopter Pilot Model for Pitch Attitude Tracking Task. In: Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control. Springer International Publishing, 2017 more…

2016

  • S. Busch, K. Schilling: Technology for Small Satellite Research - Payloads and Subsystem Technologies Small Satellite Applications, Missions, and In-Orbit Experiences. , International Academy of Astronautics, IAA Book Series, Small Satellite - Programs, Missions, Technologies and Applications. , 2016 more…
  • Falconi, Guillermo P.; Angelov, Jorg; Holzapfel, Florian: Hexacopter outdoor flight test results using adaptive control allocation subject to an unknown complete loss of one propeller. 2016 3rd Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SysTol), IEEE, 2016 more…
  • Falconi, Guillermo P.; Schatz, Simon P.; Holzapfel, Florian: Fault tolerant control of a hexarotor using a command governor augmentation. 2016 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), IEEE, 2016 more…
  • Freimann, A.; Tzschichholz, T.; Schmidt, M.; Kleinschrodt, A.; Schilling, K.: Applicability of delay tolerant networking to distributed satellite systems. CEAS Space Journal 8 (4), 2016, 323-332 more…
  • Heise, Christian D.; Schatz, Simon P.; Holzapfel, Florian: Modified Extended State Observer Control of Linear Systems. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2016 more…
  • Jonathan Lauffs, Patrick; Holzapfel, Florian: Hardware-in-the-loop platform for development of redundant smart actuators. Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology 88 (3), 2016, 358-364 more…
  • Karlsson, Erik; Schatz, Simon P.; Baier, Thaddaus; Dorhofer, Christoph; Gabrys, Agnes; Hochstrasser, Markus; Krause, Christoph; Lauffs, Patrick J.; Mumm, Nils C.; Nurnberger, Kajetan; Peter, Lars; Schneider, Volker; Spiegel, Philip; Steinert, Lukas; Zollitsch, Alexander W.; Holzapfel, Florian: Automatic flight path control of an experimental DA42 general aviation aircraft. 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), IEEE, 2016 more…
  • Krause, Christoph; Holzapfel, Florian: Designing a system automation for a novel UAV demonstrator. 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), IEEE, 2016 more…
  • Kugler, Martin E.; Holzapfel, Florian: Designing a safe and robust automatic take-off maneuver for a fixed-wing UAV. 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), IEEE, 2016 more…
  • Kügler, Martin E.; Holzapfel, Florian: Developing Automated Contingency Procedures for the ATOL System of a Fixed-Wing UAV through Online FDD. AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2016 more…
  • Nogueira, T.; Dombrovski, S.; Busch, S.; Schilling, K.; Zaksek, K.; Hort, M.: Photogrammetric ash cloud observations by small satellite formations. 2016 IEEE Metrology for Aerospace (MetroAeroSpace), IEEE, 2016 more…
  • Schneider, Volker; Piprek, Patrick; Schatz, Simon P.; Baier, Thaddaus; Dorhofer, Christoph; Hochstrasser, Markus; Gabrys, Agnes; Karlsson, Erik; Krause, Christoph; Lauffs, Patrick J.; Mumm, Nils C.; Nurnberger, Kajetan; Peter, Lars; Spiegel, Phillip; Steinert, Lukas; Zollitsch, Alexander; Holzapfel, Florian: Online trajectory generation using clothoid segments. 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), IEEE, 2016 more…
  • T. Nogueira and K. Schilling: Scaling-up Autonomy for Scaled-down Systems Technology for Small Satellite Research. 2016 more…
  • Tekin, Raziye; Erer, Koray S.; Holzapfel, Florian: Control of Impact Time with Increased Robustness via Feedback Linearization. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 39 (7), 2016, 1682-1689 more…
  • Zhang, Fubiao; Fricke, Tim; Holzapfel, Florian: Integrated Control and Display Augmentation for Manual Remote Flight Control in the Presence of Large Latency. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2016 more…

2014

  • Ackerman, Kasey; Pelech, Steven; Carbonari, Ronald; Hovakimyan, Naira; Kirlik, Alex; Gregory, Irene M.: Pilot-in-the-Loop Flight Simulator for NASA’s Transport Class Model. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014 more…
  • Bhattacharya, Sourabh; Basar, Tamer; Hovakimyan, Naira: On the construction of barrier in a visibility based pursuit evasion game. 2014 European Control Conference (ECC), IEEE, 2014 more…
  • Braun, Stanislav; Geiser, Markus; Heller, Matthias; Holzapfel, Florian: Configuration assessment and preliminary control law design for a novel diamond-shaped UAV. 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), IEEE, 2014 more…
  • C. Wang, L. Drees, and F. Holzapfel: Incident prediction using subset simulatio. 29th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Science, 2014 more…
  • Chongvisal, June; Tekles, Nikolas; Xargay, Enric; Talleur, Don; Kirlik, Alex; Hovakimyan, Naira: Loss-of-Control Prediction and Prevention for NASA's Transport Class Model. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014 more…
  • Cichella, Venanzio; Choe, Ronald; Mehdi, Bilal S.; Xargay, Enric; Hovakimyan, Naira; Trujillo, Anna C.; Kaminer, Isaac: Trajectory Generation and Collision Avoidance for Safe Operation of Cooperating UAVs. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014 more…
  • D. Loebl and F. Holzapfel: Closed-loop simulation analysis of automated control of aircraft in formation flight. Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress, 2014 more…
  • Hoecht, L.; Bierling, T.; Holzapfel, F.: Ultimate Boundedness Theorem for Model Reference Adaptive Control Systems. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 37 (5), 2014, 1595-1603 more…
  • J. Wang, D. Loebl, and F. Holzapfel: Kinematic modeling and control design for an aerial refueling task. RAeS Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 2014 more…
  • L. Höhndorf, J. Sembiring, and F. Holzapfel: Copulas applied to flight data analysis. PSAM 12: Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, 2014 more…
  • Lee, Hanmin; Cichella, Venanzio; Hovakimyan, Naira: L<inf>1</inf> adaptive output feedback augmentation of Model Reference Control. 2014 American Control Conference, IEEE, 2014 more…
  • Lee, Hanmin; Snyder, Steven; Hovakimyan, Naira: An Adaptive Unknown Input Observer for Fault Detection and Isolation of Aircraft Actuator Faults. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014 more…
  • Richter, Maximilian; Bittner, Matthias; Rieck, Rainer M.; Holzapfel, Florian: A Realistic Flight Path Parameterization for Calculation of Noise Minimal Trajectories using Bi-level Optimal Control. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014 more…
  • Richter, Maximilian; Hochstrasser, Markus; Walter, Leif; Bittner, Matthias; Holzapfel, Florian: Application of MINLP Techniques to Conflict Resolution of Multiple Aircraft. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014 more…
  • Schilling, Klaus: Networked Control of Cooperating Distributed Pico-Satellites. IFAC Proceedings Volumes 47 (3), 2014, 7960-7964 more…
  • Siddarth, Anshu; Peter, Florian; Holzapfel, Florian; Valasek, John: Autopilot for a Nonlinear Non-Minimum Phase Tail-Controlled Missile. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014 more…
  • Tekles, Nikolas; Holzapfel, Florian; Xargay, Enric; Choe, Ronald; Hovakimyan, Naira; Gregory, Irene M.: Flight Envelope Protection for NASA's Transport Class Model. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014 more…
  • Zwirglmaier, K; Drees, L; Holzapfel, F; Straub, D: Reliability analysis for Runway Overrun using subset simulation. In: Safety and Reliability: Methodology and Applications. CRC Press, 2014 more…
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