pierluigi montinari

* Flight test engineer: flight test planning, test risk assessment, test execution, post-processing * Flight technologies specialist: flight mechanics & dynamics, A/C handling, performance, flight loads * Compliance Verification Engineer: mechanical systems & cabin safety * OCEAN2020 project (https://ocean2020.eu/) requirements definition * Development of BK-ISP OPV (Optional Piloted Vehicle) aerial platform, equipped with surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities * Compliance activity for Permit to Fly (unmanned flights) * Flight test engineering (unmanned flights)

▪Developing control laws for autopiloting and pre-setted maneuvers.

* Aerodynamics/Flight Mechanics/Dynamics * Aerodynamic dataset definition * Flight simulation models

Three-dimensional rotations, equations of motion, static and dynamic stability, FCS/FSAS

▪Detailed mechanical modelling, design, hands.on characterization. ▪Development of device architectures to meet all products specifications.

In this work an envelope protection system based on optimal control technique, known in literature as receding horizon control with linear reduced model (linear-parameter-varying model) is proposed, to protect parameters such as rotor hub moment. In this way the protection system bases the action of limiting pilot command by predicting the parameter in a prediction window and calculating the critical control that allow to approach the envelope limit by minimizing a cost function. The RHC with LPV model technique offers the advantage to guarantee a temporal determinism (predefined number of operations to compute) for calculating the critical control in order to make the system suitable for real-time applications. Activities and Societies: Paper in submission for thesis work: ''Flight Envelope Protection of Helicopter Using Model Predictive Control''