PEGASUS Contact: Prof. Manuel Felipe Rosa Iglesias, Prof. Rafael Vazquez
ETSI Sevilla
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Research Fields
- Aircraft trajectory optimization. Analysis of uncertainty in aircraft trajectories.
- Air traffic management.
- Aircraft gas turbines diagnostics: evaluation of engine/turbomachinery degradation through on-site data analysis and system modelling.
- Analysis and Design of aeronautical structures.
- Avionics, navigation systems, digital communications, software tools for data loading of software on board.
- Communications Electronics.
- Control system engineering.
- Design and control of UAVs.
- Development of automatic flight control and navigation control strategies
- Development of new propulsion cycles and engine performance evaluation.
- Dynamic of Mechanical Systems
- Electromagnetic compatibility.
- Embedded systems
- Failure criteria of composites.
- Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics.
- Fluid Mechanics
- Fracture Mechanics applied to composites
- Mechanical Behaviour of Materials.
- MEMS Technologies
- Modelling of damage in composites
- Power Electronics.
- Space vehicle flight dynamics and control strategies.
- Stress analysis and failure prediction in adhesive joints with composite materials.
- Testing of aeronautical structures.
- Testing of metallic and composite materials.
Facilities
- Wind Tunnel
- Aerospace Teaching Laboratory.
- Experimental modal analysis equipment.
- 20 kN Shaking table with frequencies between 5 Hz and 2 kHz
- 10 kN Resonant fatigue testing machine (50 to 200 Hz)
- Several uniaxial servohidraulic dynamic testing machines (15 kN, 50 kN, 100 kN, 250 kN) (0 to 30 Hz)
- Two biaxial servohidraulic dynamic testing machines (25 kN, 100 kN) (0 to 30 Hz).
- 3D continuos fibre (carbo/glass/kevlar) reinforced composite printer.
- Composites repair system (Hot bonder).
- 2 multiphase electrical drives workstations
- 2 electrical vehicles
- 5 quadcopters.
- Power electronics laboratory.
- Ad hoc network with 30 nodes
- Anechoic chamber and EMC instrumentation
- Two turboshafts test bench. These belong to the Spanish Army and through an agreement with Seville University are used for research activities.
- MEMS Clean room.
- Universal testing machines.
- Ovens and furnaces.
- Climatic chambers.
- Autoclave.
- Clean room for hand lay up of composites.
- Salt spray chamber.
- Optical microscopy.
- Photoelasticity and extensometry
- Shaker
People
- Full professors: 19
- Associate professors: 31
- Assistant professors: 27
- Postdoc: 11
- PhD candidates: 45
Exchange
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