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Systems Control and Flight Dynamics

Mission

  • To direct and to conduct research on methods and tools for the conception and improvement of system control and steering functions.
  • To contribute to the mastering of the complexity and the security of aerospace systems.

Areas of expertise

  • Automatics, Artificial Intelligence, Flight Mechanics, Cognitive Sciences:
    • methods and tools for guidance, control and identification;
    • methods and tools for steering et decision making: planification, decision help;
    • conception and performances of aerospace systems: flight qualities;
    • operations: autonomy, steering architectures and human factors.
  • Experimental or industrial application to systems for air or space vehicles: aircrafts and air transport systems, helicopteres, UAVs, orbital systems, planetary exploration robots, submarine robots or surface ships.

Thematic activities

  • Methods and unified tools for identification & non-linear robust control
  • Non-linear Model Identification with neural networks
  • Conception and performance of rotary wing systems
  • Trafic planification and management in air transportation systems
  • Autonomous decision making and robotics
  • Set of autonomous fonctions for UAVs in any environnement
  • Powerfull planification and optimization algorithms
  • Human factors
  • Safe by design controller synthesis
  • Highly adaptive system operation safety
  • Real time acquisition systems & powerfull data processing
  • Active Flow Control
  • Composite wing demonstrator with innovative actuators
  • Flapping wing experimentation, control and mastering
  • New concepts of aircrafts : flying wings

On-going Projects

  • AGATA, generic multi-mission architecture for autonomy
  • IDEAS, UAVs insertion in air traffic
  • AZUR, UAVs autonomous navigation in urban areas
  • ROVER planetary exploration
  • Action, Cooperation of Multiple Heterogeneous Vehicles
  • DTP COCKPIT, flying control for the future
  • DTP FLIPPER, advanced tools for aircraft model identification
  • CREATION, multidisciplinary conception of future rotorcrafts

European cooperations

  • AIRSYS (Airbus IRIT LAAS-CNRS Onera) Automatics for air transportation systems
  • CNES-Onera Common Program on space system autonomy
  • CNES-Onera Common Program on EOLE UAV launcher
  • Onera-DLR Common Program on Helicopters and VTOL UAVs
  • US-FR MoA on Helicopters and VTOL UAVs
  • Onera-NASA MoA on Human Facteurs
  • NICE Advanced tools for non-linear control
  • RHILP (flight mechanics)
  • ACT-TILT (active control)
  • DART (rotor optimisation)
  • AEROS (LAAS-CNRS) robots ans space systems Autonomy

Former Thematic Activities

Former Projects

Former European cooperations

  • IMMUNE
  • HAFUN
  • SAFEE
  • COFCLUO
  • NACRE

Organisation

DCSD is structured in Research Units (UR) :
  • "Control and Decision making" Research Unit CD)
  • "Control and Integration" Research Unit (CDIN)
  • "Identification and Control" Research Unit (IDCO)
  • "Control, Simulation and Flight testing" Research Unit (PSEV)
  • "Flight Quality and Security" Research Unit (QSV)

Other topics

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Thematic activities

 Agata -autonomie des satellites

 

On-going projects

 Agata -autonomie des satellites Action, Cooperation of Multiple Heterogeneous Vehicles

 

Former Thematic Activities

Aircraft Environment and Flight Qualities Satellite Attitude Control Using CMG

 

Former projects

Exhost-PIPE

 


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