Prof. Pierluigi Capone
Prof. Pierluigi Capone
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Flugmechanik und Flugregelungssysteme
Technikumstrasse 71
8400 Winterthur
Arbeit an der ZHAW
Tätigkeit
- Teamleiter Flugmechanik und Flugregelungssysteme
- Weiterbildungskurse - Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
- SoE Koordinator Drohnen und unbemannte Flugobjekte
Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Entwurf, Spezifikation und Entwicklung von Flugregelungssystemen und Autopiloten für Flächenflugzeuge und Drehflügler (von Systemen mit beschränkter Steuerautorität, bis zu kompletten fly-by-wire Systemen)
- Parameterschätzung (Parameter Estimation) für flugmechanische Modellierungen und Flugsimulationsmodelle
- Entwicklung von Real-Time Simulatoren (Simulationsmodell, Control Loading, Motion Base und Visual)
- Flugversuche für Flugsteuerungssysteme und Parameterschätzung, Planung, Durchführung, Datenauswertung
- Zukunftsweisende Entwicklung von Steuerelementen für Tiltrotors und Compound Helicopters
Lehrtätigkeit
- Aircraft Systems - Control Systems
- Flight Mechanics and Simulation
- System Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety
- Safety Critical Systems (MSE)
Berufserfahrung
- Head of Control Laws Design - Fly by Wire Integrated Team
AgustaWestland
2008 - 2013 - Chief Project Engineer for Fly by Wire
Sistemi Dinamici, Italien, im Auftrag von AgustaWestland
2006 - 2008 - Middle Management, Flight Control System Group – Rotorcraft Flight Control System Design, Integration and Flight Testing
AgustaWestland, Italien
2004 - 2006 - Engineer Specialist, Active Control Technology Group - Design, verification, clearance, pilot in the loop simulation and flight test of digital control laws.
Bombardier Aerospace, Kanada
2001 - 2004 - Senior Engineer, Flight Controls and Handling Qualities Groups – BA609 Tilt-Rotor Flight Control System Entwicklung
Bell Helicopter, USA (im Namen von Agusta SpA)
2000 - 2001 - Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer, Flight Control System Group - Verantwortlich für M346 Advanced Trainer Control Laws
Aermacchi SpA
1995 - 2000 - Engineer Aerodynamics Office - Leistungen, Flugtest und Zertifizierung.
Pilatus Flugzeugwerke AG
1995 - 1995
Aus- und Weiterbildung
Ausbildung
- CAS Hochschuldidaktik
PHZH
2022 - 2023 - EASA Design Organisation Approval, Certification of aircraft and related products, parts and appliances, and of design and production organisations
JAA Training Organization
2021 - 2021 - Fortbildungsreihe - Middle Management
AgustaWestland
2004 - 2012 - Leadership Development
Bombardier Aerospace
2004 - 2004 - Aircraft Reliability and FAR/JAR Design Requirements
Bombardier Aerospace
2003 - 2003 - Dipl. Ing. Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik / Aeroservoelasticity
Politecnico di Milano
1988 - 1994
Weiterbildung
Pilotenlizenz Motorflug
Avilu Flugschule
1992
Netzwerk
Mitglied in Netzwerken
- ERF (European Rotorcraft Forum) International Committee
- Working Group: WG-112 / Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL)
- Alumni Politecnico di Milano
- Vertical Flight Society
- Schweizerische Vereinigung für Flugwissenschaften
ORCID digital identifier
Social Media
Projekte
- Feasibility study on novel tilt-wing control allocation strategy / Co-Projektleiter:in / laufend
- Flight mechanics of a tilt-wing aircraft under harsh conditions / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / laufend
- White-box Helicopter System Identification / Projektleiter:in / laufend
- Swiss Drone Base Camp Lodrino / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Simulation tool to predict the aerodynamics of tilt-wing aircraft / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Digital Transformation – Case Studies for Aviation Safety Standards – Modelling and Simulation / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- High Operational Reliability for Unmanned Systems / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Signal in Space (SIS) Qualitätsmonitoring mittels Software Defined Radio / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Konzept und Machbarkeitstudie eines Leistungsreservenrechners für die allgemeine Luftfahrt / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Neuartiger generischer Collision-Avoidance-Algorithmus / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
Publikationen
Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed
- Liu, X., Abà, A., Capone, P., Manfriani, L., & Fu, Y. (2022). Atmospheric disturbance modelling for a piloted flight simulation study of airplane safety envelope over complex terrain. Aerospace, 9(2), 103. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9020103
- Abà, A., Barra, F., Capone, P., & Guglieri, G. (2020). Mathematical modelling of gimballed tilt-rotors for real-time flight simulation. Aerospace, 7(9), 124. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace7090124
- Monstein, R., Capone, P., & Dettling, M. (2019). Determination of model structure from flight test with generalized additive models. Journal of Aircraft. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.C035171
Bücher, peer-reviewed
Moorhouse, D. J., de Boer, W., Fielding, C., Hahn, K.-U., Hofinger, G., Magni, J.-F., Verde, L., Amato, F., Attar, M., Black, T., Barfield, F., Cord, T., Capone, P., Dinkelmann, M., Duda, H., Gibson, J., Iervolino, R., Jategaonkar, J., Moormann, D., et al. (2000). Flight control design : best practices. Research and Technology Organization, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a387777.pdf
Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed
- Pedrioli, A., Capone, P., Righi, M., Garcia-Sanchez, E., Pinsard, L., & Vieira Gomes, J. (2024, January 10). MODEL-SI : modeling and simulation - multi-fidelity surrogate model of an eVTOL for certification. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 8-12 January 2024. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-1624
- Primatesta, S., Barra, F., Godio, S., Guglieri, G., & Capone, P. (2023). Implementation of a comprehensive real-time flight simulator for XV-15 tilt-rotor aircraft. AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-0336
- Abà, A., Pedrioli, A., Monstein, R., Hitz, M., Schneider, R., & Capone, P. (2023, September 1). Convertiplane control during transition : the Collective and Throttle Lever (CATL). 49th European Rotorcraft Forum 2023 - Proceedings.
- Pavel, M., Abà, A., & Capone, P. (2023, September 1). Metrics and guidelines for rotorcraft modeling accuracy and their relation to model uncertainty : a state-of-the practice survey. 49th European Rotorcraft Forum 2023 - Proceedings.
- Garbo, P., Quaranta, G., & Capone, P. (2023, June 12). Non-invasive optical sensors to measure pilots’ forces on aircraft control inceptors. AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-3321
- Figuet, B., Leibundgut, P., Pedrioli, A., Frauenfelder, A., Doran, H. D., & Capone, P. (2022, September 7). HORUS : High Operational Reliability for Unmanned Systems. 48th European Rotorcraft Forum (ERF), Winterthur, Switzerland, 6-9 September 2022. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27218
- Capone, P., Primatesta, S., Barra, F., & Guglieri, G. (2022, May 10). Design and integration of a tilt-rotor flight simulation platform. Forum 78 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.4050/F-0078-2022-17587
- Capone, P., Rinaldi, M., & Guglieri, G. (2022, May 10). Comprehensive analysis and configuration of a control loading solution for a rotary wing flight simulator. Forum 78 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.4050/F-0078-2022-17573
- Barra, F., Capone, P., & Guglieri, G. (2020). A methodology for preliminary performance estimation of a hybrid-electric tilt-wing aircraft for emergency medical services [Conference paper]. 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 1636–1643. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS48674.2020.9214025
- Doran, H. D., Reif, M. U., Oehler, M., Stöhr, C., & Capone, P. (2020). Conceptual design of human-drone communication in collaborative environments [Conference paper]. 2020 50th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), 118–121. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN-W50199.2020.00030
- Barra, F., Capone, P., Monstein, R., Godio, S., & Guglieri, G. (2019, September 17). Implementation of a comprehensive mathematical model for tilt-rotor real-time flight simulation. 45th European Rotorcraft Forum, Warsaw, Poland, 17-20 September 2019. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-19753
- Capone, P. (2002). Linearization of aircraft models : a flight control system and flying qualities perspective. Challenges in Dynamics, System Identification, Control and Handling Qualities for Land, Air Sea and Space Vehicles.
- Capone, P., & Mantegazza, P. (1995). Adaptive control of a multi-input multi-output flutter suppression system. Nineteenth European Rotorcraft Forum : Cernobbio (Como), September 14-16, 1993.
Weitere Publikationen
Deverlija, J. J., Abà, A., Capone, P., Masi, A., Daniele, M., & Scorcelletti, F. (2024, September 10). A novel wake interference model for helicopter real-time simulation. 50th European Rotorcraft Forum, Marseille, France, 10-12 September 2024. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-32606