Dr. Pierluigi Capone
Dr. Pierluigi Capone
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Flugmechanik und Flugregelungssysteme
Technikumstrasse 71
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
- Head Flight Mechanics and Flight Control Systems
- Professional development course - Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
- SoE Coordinator for drones and unmanned aerial vehicles
Focus
- Design, specification and development from limited control authority to full fly-by-wire flight control systems for fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft
- Parameter Estimation for research, development and training purposes
- Development of Real-time simulatiors (simulation model, control loading, motion base and visual system)
- Flight Test for Flight Control System and Parameter Estimation, Planning, Instrumentation, Execution, data Analysis
- Development of new inceptor designs suitable for tiltrotor and compound helicopter designs.
Teaching
- Aircraft Systems - Control Systems
- Flight Mechanics and Simulation
- System Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety
- Safety Critical Systems (MSE)
Professional development teaching
WBK Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
Experience
- Head of Control Laws Design - Fly by Wire Integrated Team
AgustaWestland
2008 - 2013 - Chief Project Engineer for Fly by Wire
Sistemi Dinamici, Italy, on behalf of AgustaWestland
2006 - 2008 - Middle Management, Flight Control System Group – Rotorcraft Flight Control System Design, Integration and Flight Testing
AgustaWestland, Italy
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, Canada
2001 - 2004 - Senior Engineer, Flight Controls and Handling Qualities Groups – BA609 Tilt-Rotor Flight Control System Development
Bell Helicopter, USA (on Behalf of Agusta SpA)
2000 - 2001 - Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer, Flight Control System Group - Responsible for M346 Advanced Trainer Control Laws
Aermacchi SpA
1995 - 2000 - Engineer Aerodynamics Office - Perfromenace, Flight Test and Certification
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
1995 - 1995
Education and Continuing education
Education
- CAS University Didactic
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 - Development Courses - Middle Management
AgustaWestland
2004 - 2012 - Leadership Development
Bombardier Aerospace
2004 - 2004 - Aircraft Reliability and FAR/JAR Design Requirements
Bombardier Aerospace
2003 - 2003 - MSc In Aerospace Engineering / Aeroservoelasticity
Politecnico di Milano
1988 - 1994
Continuing Education
Private Pilot Licence
Avilu flight School
1992
Network
Membership of networks
- ERF (European Rotorcraft Forum) International Committee
- Working Group: WG-112 / Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL)
- Alumni Politecnico di Milano
- Vertical Flight Society
- Swiss Association of Aeronautical Sciences
Social media
Projects
- Swiss Drone Base Camp Lodrino / Team member / Project ongoing
- White-box Helicopter System Identification / Project leader / Project ongoing
- Digital Transformation - Case Studies for Aviation Safety Standards - Modelling and Simulation / Project leader / Project ongoing
- 48th European Rotorcraft Forum / Project leader / Project completed
- High Operational Reliability for Unmanned Systems / Project leader / Project completed
- 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
- Novel Generic Collision Avoidance Algorithm / Project leader / Project completed
Publications
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Liu, Xinying; Abà, Anna; Capone, Pierluigi; Manfriani, Leonardo; Fu, Yongling,
2022.
Aerospace.
9(2), pp. 103.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9020103
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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
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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
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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
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Pedrioli, Andrea; Capone, Pierluigi; Righi, Marcello; Garcia-Sanchez, Elena; Pinsard, Laurent; Vieira Gomes, Joana,
2024.
MODEL-SI : modeling and simulation - multi-fidelity surrogate model of an eVTOL for certification [paper].
In:
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 8-12 January 2024.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-1624
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Abà, Anna; Pedrioli, Andrea; Monstein, Raphael; Hitz, Manuel; Schneider, Rafael; Capone, Pierluigi,
2023.
Convertiplane control during transition : the Collective and Throttle Lever (CATL) [paper].
In:
49th European Rotorcraft Forum 2023 - Proceedings.
49th European Rotorcraft Forum, Bückeburg, Germany, 5-7 September 2023.
Bonn:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e.V..
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Pavel, Marilena; Abà, Anna; Capone, Pierluigi,
2023.
In:
49th European Rotorcraft Forum 2023 - Proceedings.
49th European Rotorcraft Forum, Bückeburg, Germany, 5-7 September 2023.
Bonn:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e.V..
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Garbo, Pierre; Quaranta, Giuseppe; Capone, Pierluigi,
2023.
Non-invasive optical sensors to measure pilots’ forces on aircraft control inceptors [paper].
In:
AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum.
AIAA AVIATION Forum, San Diego, USA and online, 12-16 June 2023.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-3321
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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
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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.
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Capone, Pierluigi; Rinaldi, Marco; Guglieri, Giorgio,
2022.
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
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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
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Barra, Federico; Capone, Pierluigi; Guglieri, Giorgio,
2020.
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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.