Dr. Pierluigi Capone

Work at ZHAW

Position at the ZHAW

Team leader Flight Mechanics and Flight Control Systems
Lecturer of Flight Mechanics and Flight Control Systems

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

Professional development teaching

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

Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

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

Professional milestones

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

Educational background

MSc Aerospace Engineering, 1994, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

Projects

• Signal in Space (SIS) Qualitätsmonitoring mittels Software Defined Radio / Project leader / Project completed
• Concept and Feasibility Study of a Power Reserve Calculator for General Aviation / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• 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), pp. 103.

  Available from: 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), pp. 124.

  Available from: 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.

  Available from: 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.

  Available from: 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.

  pp. 118-121.

  Available from: 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.

  Available from: 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.

  Available from: 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.

  Available from: 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.

  pp. 1636-1643.

  Available from: 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.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-19753

Publications before appointment at the 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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