Joaquín Míguez Arenas (UC3M) & Manuel Sanjurjo Rivo (UC3M)
Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to devise new methods to preserve orbital safety and improve services in the domain of space traffic management. This is done by using state-of-the-art probabilistic techniques and alternative geometric analysis in order to:
– Track space objects by accurately characterizing their uncertainty.
– Compute the probability of collision, treating collisions as extremely rare events.
Nationality: Spanish Funding entity and Program: PIPF – Realization on INTA
PhD Thesis
Investigation of flow control methods using data-driven algorithms
Supervisors
Carlos Sanmiguel Vila (INTA) & Stefano Discetti (UC3M)
Abstract
The objective of this thesis is to study flow control strategies using machine learning algorithms for drag reduction or heat flow control in engineering applications. The study will be based on both simulated and experimental cases.
Funding entity and Program: Industrial PhD in collaboration with company Flightkeys.
PhD Thesis
Implementation and analysis of climate models in a commercial flight planning optimization system. Development of a climate cost function and proposal of environmental policies for operators.
Supervisors
Raimund Zopp (Flightkeys) & Manuel Soler (UC3M)
Abstract
This research will develop and implement a non-CO2 emissions calculation model into Flightkeys’ flight planning system. New trajectories will be computed through the application of a climate cost function to the cost optimizer. The goal will be to study and compare climate cost routes with their optimal counterparts and come up with an optimal balance between added cost for airlines and climate reduction.
START – a Stable and resilienT ATM by integrAting Robust airline operations into the neTwork
H2020 SESAR. Grant number: 893204
Contrail Avoidance Model
Flightkeys, Orca Sciences and Imperial college of London
H2-fuelled aircraft configuration and trajectory optimisation to reduce aeronautic environmental impact.
Supervisors
Manuel Soler (UC3M) & Rauno Cavallaro (BSC-CNS)
Abstract
H2 powertrains have recently emerged as a solution for mitigating aviation global warming impact. The design and trajectory optimization of such innovative configurations appear as an opportunity for tackling both CO2 and non-CO2 emissions noxious effect. This PhD aims to develop techniques to find the aircraft designs and their climate optimal trajectories of a future generation of H2 powered aviation.
This project is part of the program to stimulate research by young PHD research of young doctors for the realization of R&D projects, funded under the framework of the agreement CM-UC3M for the years 2019-2024
Research Stays
Institutions:Stanford University (California, United States) Department/Group: Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Host: Catherine Gorlé Period: from May 2024 to July 2024
Nationality: Spanish Funding entity and Program: PIPF -Realization on INTA
PhD Thesis
Autonomous Control of Flight Formation by Drag and Lift Maneuvers at LEO, with the support of GPS system
Supervisors
Manuel Sanjurjo Rivo (UC3M)
Abstract
This work trends to be the real nominal control implemented at ANSER-AT mission. The mission studies the atmosphere´s composition and contamination. At LEO orbit and four years lifespan.
Distributed payload allows optimization of weight and cost, being however necessary the implementation of a precise flight formation control. Here, our satellites go on an Indian file.
Avoid using a rocket motor facilitates all the space project phases. Since Design to AIV. Besides, the lack of motor increases the probability of being accepted for launching because the lack of motor decreases the risk made by the satellite to the main launched payload, much more expensive than the CubeSat. Nevertheless, the lack of motor forces to develop flight formation control by drag and lift maneuvers.
The mission is formed by four satellites. Each satellites carries a single focused wavelength spectrometer. First platform studies ozone concentration. Second one nitrogen oxides. Third one water vapor. And last one carbon dioxide. Our satellites go on an Indian file. The satellites must maintain a maximum relative distance of seven kilometres in order to study the same air mass not evolved or changed. So, the difference between time arrival of sats at an air mass are seconds (it orbits at around seven kilometres/second). This value imposes that flight formation control must be autonomous. The software will be implemented under flight software rules. It must ponder precision with power and speed computing. All orbital perturbation must be tailored. Such as third boy effect, radiation pressure o number of spherical harmonics. Finally, it is available GPS System, and probably ranging by ISL, for orbital navigation.
ANSER-AT – INTAProject
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Pelayo Vázquez
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – P. Vázquez
Nationality: Italian Funding entity and Program: PIPF UC3M
PhD Thesis
Kinetic modelling of plasma thruster plumes
Supervisors
Eduardo Ahedo (UC3M) and Mario Merino Martínez (UC3M)
Abstract
The research will be centered around the development of a 2D Particle In Cell code. Albeit the strong challenges linked to the large computational resources necessary, such a code will allow a strong insight in the complex physics of plasma plumes and their interactions with the thruster and spacecraft.
Propulsión por plasma y fusión nuclear: innovando el transporte espacial
Grant number: Y2018/NMT-4750 (PROMETEO-CM)
Doctoral Meetings 2024-2025
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2025 – Matteo Guaita
Doctoral Meetings 2023-2024
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2024 – Matteo Guaita
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 – Matteo Guaita
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – M. Guaita
Aviation contributes to human-induced climate change through the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other non-CO2 forcing agents. The latter, responsible for roughly two-thirds of aviation’s climate effects, is highly sensitive to the time and location of emissions. Consequently, operational measures such as climate-aware flight planning offer a practical and infrastructure-compatible solution to mitigate aviation’s climate impact in the short term. However, optimizing flight paths individually can compromise air traffic safety and manageability due to the consideration of climate-sensitive zones. My thesis introduces frameworks based on deep multi-agent reinforcement learning to reconcile climate-optimal flight trajectories with the operational requirements of the air traffic management system, enabling the deployment of feasible, climate-optimal aircraft trajectories.
Awards
Luis Azcárraga Award at the 28th edition of the ENAIRE Foundation Aeronautical Awards (2023)
REFMAP – Reducing Environmental Footprint through transformative Multi-scale Aviation Planning by the European Commission under Grant 101096698
Nationality: Italian Funding entity and Program: PIPF
PhD Thesis
Development of design tools for virtual certification of new generation wings
Supervisors
Rauno Cavallaro (BSC-CNS) and Andrea Cini (UC3M)
Abstract
This thesis aims at developing a sizing tool to optimise the wing aerodynamic parameters and material distribution accounting for the aerostructural coupling, and considering stiffness, strength, stability, flutter, durability and damage tolerance requirements in case of isotropic and composite materials. Different levels of fidelity and optimisation strategies will be compared in term of accuracy and computational cost.
Green in-space trasportation with tether technology
Supervisors
Enrico Lorenzini (University of Padova) and Gonzalo Sanchez-Arriaga (UC3M)
Abstract
The research project is centered in demonstrating different configurations of Tether Systems to overcome the limitations of rocket propulsions, enable new classes of missions currently unaffordable or infeasible, and significantly advance the tether technology towards an operational level, focusing on establishing a deeper understanding of critical processes and technologies to be able to improve Tether Systems in the future. The goal is demonstrating the capability of the tether technology to provide robust, safe, propellant-less propulsion both as de-orbiting and orbit-raising device and fully characterize the performance of an integrated tether propulsion system, for use on-board future satellites with small modifications. The benefits in using Tether Systems are manifold. The value of a Tether System lies in the fact that it can develop “green energies” in total autonomy by exploiting physical principles: angular moment conservation, pairing between energy generation and thrust or vice versa between decrease in orbital energy and electrodynamic drag. A few examples are: (a) by releasing satellites from the International Space Station with passive systems without propellant and without discharge, the external contamination around the station is greatly reduced; (b) equipping satellites with an electrodynamic tether ensures independence from the storage and use of propellant in orbit. In this way the topics of deorbiting, re-entry and reboost and, in general, passive propulsion can be addressed by a technology that is increasingly efficient, as the time in orbit increases, when compared to chemical systems.
E.T.PACK – Electrodynamic Tether Technology for Passive Consumable-less Deorbit Kit
H2020 FET Open. Grant number: 828902
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Alice Brunello
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – A. Brunello
Pablo Fajardo Peña (UC3M) and Eduardo Ahedo (UC3M)
Abstract
Advanced 2D fluid models of Hall effect thruster (HET) will be developed to comprehend the different plasma instabilities that are launched within different regions of the discharge, their nonlinear evolution and saturation, and their role in plasma transport and thruster performances.
ESPEOS: Electric Space Propulsion for Earth Orbit Satellites.
SIMTURB: Simulación Numérica de la Turbulencia en Propulsión Espacial Eléctrica: Sinergias con Plasmas de Fusión.
In the context of navigating minor bodies as asteroids, comets or small moons, traditional methods for orbit estimation and navigation may encounter limitations in robustness and precision. In this framework, the proposed work will explore the applicability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for monocular optical navigation of such small bodies, but also to other targets as in Earth Observation, Moon and Planetary missions.
Diego Escobar Antón (GMV Aerospace and Defence) and Joaquín Míguez Arenas (UC3M)
Abstract
Modelling of the uncertainty in dynamical models and its effect on the orbit of objects around the Earth, such as Earth’s atmospheric drag or solar radiation pressure; quantification of the uncertainty in those dynamical models by parameter estimation using statistical methods.
Doctoral Meetings 2023-2024
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2024 Alejandro Cano
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Alejandro Cano
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – A. Cano
This thesis investigates the estimation of the velocity field in a channel flow from nonintrusivewall-embedded sensors. This is crucial for the development of active control strategies in wall-bounded turbulent flows. Flow estimation based on wall-measured quantities is a longstanding challenge. The main objective of this research is to develop data-driven models to predict the three-dimensional fluid flow behaviour.
Datasets from direct numerical simulations were employed to train deep-learning models. Three-dimensional convolutional neural networks with adversarial training were shown to accurately predict flow fields from wall measurements, with a significant reduction in computational cost with respect to planar estimators. In particular, the proposed network is capable of estimating wall-attached coherent structures due to their footprint being sensed at the wall. The proposed neural network architecture demonstrated excellent performance even in the presence of noise. Furthermore, the effect of reducing the amount of information available at the wall has been explored. Pressure measurements would provide better flow reconstructions if the number of sensors is large enough to sample flow scales properly, while streamwise wall shear stress should be preferred if the target is the measurement of streamwise velocity fluctuations and if the number of sensors is limited.
NEXTFLOW – Next-generation flow diagnostics for control.
ERC Starting Grant 2020: 949085
Doctoral Meetings 2023-2024
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2024 Antonio Cuellar
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Antonio Cuellar
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – A. Cuellar
One of the main limits of PIV is the spatial resolution. Its importance is evident since high dynamic range is required to investigate turbulent flows down to the smallest scales. The goal of the research is to develop data-driven methods to improve the resolution of PIV beyond the Nyquist limit set by the interparticle spacing. To this end, machine-learning algorithms for super-resolution will be explored, including Generative Advertise Neural Network or data-driven algorithm created specifically for particle-tracking applications.
This investigation aims to obtain a complete flow description from the combination of incomplete measurements e.g. non-time-resolved velocity field and high-frequency probe data. Several data-driven techniques will be introduced into the reconstruction of time-resolved flow fields, then the pressure distribution will be estimated.
Funding entity and Program: Ayudas a la formación de doctores en empresas “Doctorados Industriales” – Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
PhD Thesis
Simulation and direct characterisation of electrostatic emission in externally wetted Ionic Liquid Ion Sources and its applications in space propulsion
Supervisors
Pablo Fajardo (UC3M), Jaume Navarro (UC3M), Daniel Pérez Grande (ienai SPACE) & Sara Correyero Plaza (ienai SPACE)
Abstract
The PhD is encased in the development of advanced space propulsion systems based on electrospray technology at ienai SPACE. It is focused on two main aspects: simulation of externally wetted Ionic Liquid Ion Sources (ILIS) and direct characterisation of ILIS-based thrusters.
Industrial PhD granted by Comunity of Madrid, carried out within ienai SPACE
Doctoral Meetings 2023-2024
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2024 Francisco de Borja
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Francisco de Borja
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – F. de Borja
Doctoral Meetings 2020-2021
PhD Aerospace – Doctoral Meetings 20-21- F. de Borja
Manuel Sanjurjo Rivo (UC3M) and Sara Correyero Plaza (ienai SPACE)
Abstract
The PhD aims at developing a tool for mission design and orbital maneuver planning for electrospray propulsion, solving the associated hybrid multi-objective optimal control problem, and finding a robust solution for the AOCS compatible with the first objective results, ultimately optimizing the GNC loop.
Industrial PhD granted by Comunity of Madrid, carried out within ienai SPACE
Doctoral Meetings 2023-2024
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2024 Giuseppe di Pasquale
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Giuseppe di Pasquale
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – G. Di Pasquale
Doctoral Meetings 2020-2021
PhD Aerospace – Doctoral Meetings 20-21- G. di Pasquale
Funding entity and Program: Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid. Dirección General de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica.
PhD Thesis
Advanced methods for the experimental characterization of space propulsion thrusters and its application to the development of the electrostatic emission of ionic liquid-based thrusters.
Pablo Fajardo (UC3M), Jaume Navarro (UC3M), Daniel Pérez Grande (ienai SPACE) and Sara Correyero Plaza (ienai SPACE)
Abstract
The PhD focuses on the development of novel electric space propulsion rockets, based on ‘electrospray’ technology. Said technology presents itself as an attractive alternative for propulsion on board of small satellite platforms, such as nano- and micro-satellites. In the context of these developments, a solid R&D effort is required for the characterization of the rockets designed and manufactured by Ienai SPACE in regards to their performances (thrust, specific impulse, total and partial efficiencies, total power, etc.). The aforementioned characterization will be made possible through the development of various probes and diagnostics, which will allow the measurement of the various characteristics of the ionic plume, or jet, generated by the thruster. The indirect characterization diagnostics, to be developed and tested can be summarized as follows: a Retarding-Potential-Analyzer (RPA), capable of measuring the effective voltage applied to the ionic jet, a Time-of-Flight (TOF) mass spectroscopy diagnostic, capable of determining the mass to charge ratio of ions (and thus the operation regime of the emitter) and a Faraday probe with angular resolution, capable of measuring the angular dispersion of the jet. Finally, a tomography diagnostic will be carried out to effectively reconstruct the electrospray plume current spatial distributions. The expected impact in the industrial environment is to significantly improve the R&D and technical capabilities of Ienai SPACE, which will have a positive impact on the development rate of the technology and an eventual commercial product based on it.
Industrial PhD granted by Comunity of Madrid, carried out within ienai SPACE
Doctoral Meetings 2023-2024
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2024 David Villegas
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 David Villegas
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – D. Villegas
Doctoral Meetings 2020-2021
PhD Aerospace – Doctoral Meetings 20-21- D. Villegas Prados
Funding entity and Program: Airbus (Friedrichshafen – Germany)
PhD Thesis
Integrated Multi-Actuator CONtrol design for Multi-Body Line-of-Sight Pointing of Space Missions
Supervisors
Thomas Ott (Airbus – Friedrichshafen) and Andres Marcos Esteban (UC3M)
Abstract
The main objective of this PhD research is to investigate advanced control design techniques and architectures for Multi-Actuation/Multi-Body spacecraft. This multi-team project between UC3M and Airbus in Friedrichshafen, Germany, will allow to use the future ATHENA X-ray space telescope as benchmark.
Doctoral Meetings 2024-2025
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2025 Alison Ponche
Doctoral Meetings 2023-2024
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2024 Alison Ponche
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Alison Ponche
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – A. Ponche
Doctoral Meetings 2020-2021
PhD Aerospace – Doctoral Meetings 20-21- A. Ponche
Electrodeless plasma thrusters (EPT) aim to improve propulsive performances, system simplicity and versatility. Their design has not been optimized for operation. The new EPT, with U-shaped plasma source geometry, aim to eliminate problems encountered with classic EPT and to enable differential thrust vector control without moving parts.
ZARATHUSTRA – Revolutionizing advanced electrodeless plasma thrusters for space transportation.
ERC Starting Grant 2020: 950466
Research Stays
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France) Department/Group: Institut de Combustion, Aérothermique, Réacivité et Environnement (ICARE) Host: Stéphane Mazouffre Period: from February 2024 to June 2024
Doctoral Meetings 2024-2025
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2025 Celian Boye
Doctoral Meetings 2023-2024
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2024 Celian Boye
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Celian Boye
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – C. Boyé
Statistical learning tools for turbulent flow control
Supervisors
Andrea Ianiro (UC3M) and Vanesa Guerrero (UC3M)
Abstract
Due to the chaotic nature of turbulent flows, the possibility of modeling the problem as a low-order dynamical system in which only the dynamics of the “most important” patterns are analyzed has always seemed interesting. This thesis aims to apply sophisticated and customized Statistical Learning techniques to detect patterns in turbulent flows.
Project participation
PITUFLOW – Pattern Identification in TUrbulent FLOW control
Grant: PITUFLOW-CM-UC3M
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – E. Farzamnik
The goal of this thesis is the investigation of the equilibrium and stability of the plasma flow in cylindrical and magnetic-arch EPTs making use of a two- and three-dimensional multi-fluid plasma simulation code, to be designed and developed as part of the research effort. The code will include the fluid equations of electrons, ions, and neutrals, modeling the collisional effects among the species and the interactions with the walls. It will enable the coupling with a wave code to analyze the coupled wave propagation and absorption with the plasma transport problem. The code will also model the induced magnetic field of the plasma, especially relevant in the external acceleration region. Armed with this simulation tool, the dual magnetic nozzle region of the MA-EPT will be investigated in detail. Finally, its thrust-vectoring capabilities will be also researched.
ZARATHUSTRA – Revolutionizing advanced electrodeless plasma thrusters for space transportation.
ERC Starting Grant 2020: 950466
Doctoral Meetings 2023-2024
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2024 Diego García
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Diego García
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – D. García-Lahuerta
Doctoral Meetings 2020-2021
PhD Aerospace – Doctoral Meetings 20-21- D. García-Lahuerta
Guillermo Carpintero del Barrio (UC3M) y Fernando Martín Jiménez (SENER Aeroespacial S.A.U)
Abstract
He received the bachelor’s degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineering in 2016 and the master in electronic systems engineering in 2017 both from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). During this time, he was involved in a national project called DIFRAGEOS where he worked on fiber bragg gratings. Since February 2019, he is doing an industrial PhD in SENER Aerospace developing low phase noise sources for satellite flexible payloads. His research interests include photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for microwave, millimeter and THz wave generation techniques
DIFRAGEOS-CM – Desarrollos instrumentales fotónicos y de radiofrecuencia y aplicación a técnicas experimentales de Geodesia Espacial
Grant: S2013/ICE-3004 (DIFRAGEOS-CM)
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Alberto Zarzuelo
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – A. Zarzuelo
Doctoral Meetings 2020-2021
PhD Aerospace – Doctoral Meetings 20-21- A Zarzuelo
This thesis searches for satisfactory analytical/metaheuristic techniques those compatible with complex optimal control problems arising from Trajectory Optimization. Specifically, this involves innovative approaches, either considered as Indirect or Direct, those providing us with more mathematically-oriented insights to the problems. In other words, the aim is to propose approaches to circumvent the drawbacks within the existing ones in some respects.
Mario Merino Martínez (UC3M) and Filippo Terragni (UC3M)
Abstract
This thesis investigates experimentally turbulence and plasma transport in Hall thrusters by applying state-of-the-art data analysis algorithms. The project will first develop a set of novel high-speed plasma diagnostic techniques to obtain the necessary data from the experimental setup, and after will implement and adapt to the collected data advanced techniques of modal analysis, with the aim of identifying the main intrinsic phenomena
Mare Terra – Resolviendo el transporte anómalo en motores de plasma de efecto Hall mediante técnicas data-driven robustas de análisis modal
Grant: MARETERRA-CM-UC3M
Revolutionizing Advanced Electrodeless Plasma Thrusters for Space Transportation
UC3M. EU H2020 Grant N°: 950466
Doctoral Meetings 2023-2024
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2024 Davide Maddaloni
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Davide Maddaloni
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – D. Maddaloni
Doctoral Meetings 2020-2021
PhD Aerospace – Doctoral Meetings 20-21- D. Maddaloni
Mario Merino Martinez (UC3M) and Jaume Navarro Cavalle (UC3M)
Abstract
Iterative design of an Electron-Cyclotron Resonance Plasma Thruster (ECRT) by performing numerical simulations with a Hybrid-PIC code (HYPHEN) and comparing them with the experimental results obtained in the EP2 vacuum chamber. Microwave Engineering and Plasma Diagnostics are also a fundamental part of this thesis.
Propulsión por plasma y fusión nuclear: innovando el transporte espacial
Development of advanced simulation tools for the study of the propagation of Electromagnetic Waves through magnetized plasma, including kinetic effects and the influence of the wave propagation phenomena in the Electron Velocity Distribution Function (EVDF).
Propulsión por plasma y fusión nuclear: innovando el transporte espacial
Grant number: Y2018/NMT-4750 (PROMETEO-CM)
HelIcon Plasma thruster for In-space Applications
SENER and UC3M. EU H2020 Grant N°: 870542
Revolutionizing Advanced Electrodeless Plasma Thrusters for Space Transportation
Funding entity: Comunidad de Madrid, consejería de educación – dirección general de universidades e investigación, PROYECTO REGIONAL – PROGRAMAS I+D
PhD Thesis
A three-dimensional model and simulator of energetic plumes from space plasma thrusters
Supervisors
Eduardo Ahedo (UC3M), Fillippo Cichocki (CNR) and Jiewei Zhou (UC3M)
Abstract
The research aims to extend both the physical models and the numerical capabilities of EP2PLUS, a three-dimensional simulator of energetic plumes emitted by space plasma thrusters. Appropriate boundary conditions will have to be chosen for each scenario, ranging from free-space to laboratory conditions. The code will then be validated against experimental data.
Propulsión por plasma y fusión nuclear: innovando el transporte espacial
Grant number: Y2018/NMT-4750 (PROMETEO-CM)
Doctoral meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Alberto Modesti
Doctoral meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – A. Modesti
Air traffic operations affect climate through the emission of carbon dioxides (CO2), water vapor (H2O), aerosols, and nitrogen oxides (NOx). The effects of non-CO2 emissions, triggering approximately two-thirds of aviation RF, vary significantly with geographic location, altitude, and time of the emission. To this end, this research will aim at optimizing the flight trajectories to avoid such climate-sensitive regions. The main expected gain would be developing a robust technique to optimize aircraft trajectories considering cost and climate impacts, which can be implemented with real-time or near-real-time computational times.
Awards
LuisAzcárraga Award at the 28th edition of the ENAIRE Foundation Aeronautical Awards (2023)
REFMAP – Reducing Environmental Footprint through transformative Multi-scale Aviation Planning by the European Commission under Grant 101096698
FlyATM4E – Flying Air Traffic Management for the benefit of environment and climate funded by the European Commission under Grant 891317
Research Stays
Institutions: Delft University of Technology Department/Group: Faculty of Aerospace Engineering/Aircraft Noise and Climate Effects Host: Feijia Yin Period: from December 2022 to February 2023
Doctoral Meetings 2023-2024
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2024 Abolfazl Simorgh
Doctoral Meetings 2022-2023
PhD Doctoral Meetings 2023 Abolfazl Simorgh
Doctoral Meetings 2021-2022
PhD Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Meetings 21-22 – A. Simorgh
Doctoral Meetings 2020-2021
PhD Aerospace – Doctoral Meetings 20-21- A. Simorgh
Manuel Fernando Soler Arnedo (UC3M) and Manuel Sanjurjo Rivo (UC3M)
Abstract
The goal of the thesis would be to refine and work with GNC challenges in non-conventional dynamical environments. Such environments include low gravity scenarios and multiple body scenarios, where key parameters and physical environments are typically unknown and/or complex. Possible end goals may be the development or research into autonomous G&C systems that are able to autonomously perform onboard complex behaviours such as touch and go manoeuvres, autonomous ascent and rendezvous, and other crucial orbital manoeuvres that, due to time differences and short time constants, may not necessarily be performed manually from earth.
PhD in Aerospace Engineering UC3M 