Dr. Pierluigi Capone

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit an der ZHAW

Teamleiter Flugmechanik und Flugregelungssysteme
Dozent für Flugmechanik und Flugregelungssysteme

www.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/institute-zentren/zav/aircraft-technologies/flugmechanik-und-flugregelungssysteme

Lehrtätigkeit in der Weiterbildung

WBK Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte, Spezialkenntnisse

Design and Development of Flight Control Systems for fixed and rotary wing aircraft
Flight Mechanics and Simulation

Beruflicher Werdegang

2008-2013: Head of Control Laws Design - Fly by Wire Integrated Team, AgustaWestland
2006: Chief Project Engineer for Fly by Wire, Sistemi Dinamici (on behalf of AgustaWestland)
2004: Managerial Staff, Flight Control System Group, AgustaWestland
2001: Engineer Specialist, Active Control Technology Group, Bombardier Aerospace
2000: Senior Engineer, Flight Controls and Handling Qualities Groups, Bell Helicopter
1995: Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer, Flight Control System Group, Aermacchi
1995: Aerodynamics Office, Pilatus Aircraft

Aus- und Fortbildung

Dipl. Ing. in Luft- und Raumfahrt, 1994, Politecnico di Milano (Italien)

Projekte

• Signal in Space (SIS) Qualitätsmonitoring mittels Software Defined Radio / ProjektleiterIn / Projekt abgeschlossen
• Konzept und Machbarkeitstudie eines Leistungsreservenrechners für die allgemeine Luftfahrt / Teammitglied / Projekt abgeschlossen

Publikationen

• Liu, Xinying; Abà, Anna; Capone, Pierluigi; Manfriani, Leonardo; Fu, Yongling,

  2022.

  Atmospheric disturbance modelling for a piloted flight simulation study of airplane safety envelope over complex terrain.

  Aerospace.

  9(2), S. 103.

  Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9020103

• Abà, Anna; Barra, Federico; Capone, Pierluigi; Guglieri, Giorgio,

  2020.

  Mathematical modelling of gimballed tilt-rotors for real-time flight simulation.

  Aerospace.

  7(9), S. 124.

  Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace7090124

• Monstein, Raphael; Capone, Pierluigi; Dettling, Marcel,

  2019.

  Determination of model structure from flight test with generalized additive models.

  Journal of Aircraft.

  Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.2514/1.C035171

• Moorhouse, David J.; de Boer, Wim; Fielding, Chris; Hahn, Klaus-Uwe; Hofinger, Georg; Magni, Jean-Francois; Verde, Leopoldo; Amato, Francesco; Attar, Moshe; Black, Thomas; Barfield, Finley; Cord, Thomas; Capone, Pierluigi; Dinkelmann, Michael; Duda, Holger; Gibson, John; Iervolino, Raffaele; Jategaonkar, Javindra; Moormann, Dieter; Scala, Stefano; van der Weerd, Rogier,

  2000.

  Flight control design : best practices.

  Neuilly-sur-Seine:

  Research and Technology Organization, North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

  RTO technical report ; 29.

  ISBN 92-837-1047-9.

  Verfügbar unter: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a387777.pdf

• Doran, Hans Dermot; Reif, Monika Ulrike; Oehler, Marco; Stöhr, Curdin; Capone, Pierluigi,

  2020.

  Conceptual design of human-drone communication in collaborative environments [Paper].

  In:

  2020 50th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W).

  International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), Valencia, Spain, 29 June - 2 July 2020.

  IEEE.

  S. 118-121.

  Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN-W50199.2020.00030

• Capone, Pierluigi,

  2002.

  Linearization of aircraft models : a flight control system and flying qualities perspective [Paper].

  In:

  Challenges in dynamics, system identification, control and handling qualities for land, air sea and space vehicles.

  RTO Systems - Concepts and Integration Panel (SCI) Symposium, Berlin, Deutschland, 13.-15. Mai 2002.

  Neuilly-sur-Seine:

  Research and Technology Organization, North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

• Capone, Pierluigi; Mantegazza, Paolo,

  1995.

  Adaptive control of a multi-input multi-output flutter suppression system [Paper].

  In:

  Nineteenth European Rotorcraft Forum : Cernobbio (Como), September 14-16, 1993.

  Nineteenth European Rotorcraft Forum, Cernobbio, Italy, 14-16 September 1993.

  Amsterdam:

  National Aerospace Laboratory.

• Primatesta, Stefano; Barra, Federico; Godio, Simone; Guglieri, Giorgio; Capone, Pierluigi,

  2023.

  Implementation of a comprehensive real-time flight simulator for XV-15 tilt-rotor aircraft [Paper].

  In:

  AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum.

  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) SciTech Forum, National Harbor, USA, 23-27 January 2023.

  Reston, VA:

  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

  Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-0336

• Figuet, Benoit; Leibundgut, Prosper; Pedrioli, Andrea; Frauenfelder, Arno; Doran, Hans Dermot; Capone, Pierluigi,

  2022.

  HORUS : High Operational Reliability for Unmanned Systems [Paper].

  In:

  48th European Rotorcraft Forum (ERF), Winterthur, Switzerland, 6-9 September 2022.

• Capone, Pierluigi; Rinaldi, Marco; Guglieri, Giorgio,

  2022.

  Comprehensive analysis and configuration of a control loading solution for a rotary wing flight simulator [Paper].

  In:

  Forum 78 Proceedings.

  78th Annual Forum and Technology Display, Fort Worth, Texas, 10-12 May 2022.

  Fairfax:

  Vertical Flight Society.

  Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.4050/F-0078-2022-17573

• Capone, Pierluigi; Primatesta, Stefano; Barra, Federico; Guglieri, Giorgio,

  2022.

  Design and integration of a tilt-rotor flight simulation platform [Paper].

  In:

  Forum 78 Proceedings.

  78th Annual Forum and Technology Display, Fort Worth, Texas, 10-12 May 2022.

  Fairfax, VA:

  Vertical Flight Society.

  Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.4050/F-0078-2022-17587

• Barra, Federico; Capone, Pierluigi; Guglieri, Giorgio,

  2020.

  A methodology for preliminary performance estimation of a hybrid-electric tilt-wing aircraft for emergency medical services [Paper].

  In:

  2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS).

  International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Athens, Greece, 1-4 September 2020.

  IEEE.

  S. 1636-1643.

  Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS48674.2020.9214025

• Barra, Federico; Capone, Pierluigi; Monstein, Raphael; Godio, Simone; Guglieri, Giorgio,

  2019.

  Implementation of a comprehensive mathematical model for tilt-rotor real-time flight simulation [Paper].

  In:

  45th European Rotorcraft Forum, Warsaw, Poland, 17-20 September 2019.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-19753

Publikationen vor Tätigkeit an der ZHAW

NATO RTO-MP-095 - Challenges in Dynamics, System Identification, Control and Handling Qualities for Land, Air, Sea and Space Vehicles, 2003

NATO RTO Technical Report 29 Flight Control Design – Best Practices, 2000

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