ETSI Sevilla

PEGASUS Contact: Prof. Manuel Felipe Rosa Iglesias, Prof. Rafael Vazquez

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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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