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Departments of the Institute

Flight Dynamics and Simulation

The Department Flight Dynamics and Simulation explores the dynamic characteristics of aircraft and their interaction with the cockpit crew. The aim is to achieve a safe, economically efficient aircraft, being robust against extreme environmental conditions like wind, wake vortexes or icing, minimizing human operating errors, staying flyable at system failures and affecting the environment as little as possible. For this purpose, the institute applies different research methods from theory through experiments in high fidelity flight simulators in real flight. Therefore, a close collaboration with test pilots as well as the modern simulation center AVES are available.

Rotorcraft

Unmanned Aircraft

Unmanned aircraft are an important extension to aviation. Comparable to industrial robots which are executing dangerous or monotonous actions to support the personnel, unmanned flights are relieving the pilots of dangerous and monotonous missions. Possible scenarios are flights in disaster areas, maintenance of power supply lines or oil pipelines, traffic supervision (flights between buildings) or under bad environmental conditions (fog, storm).

Flight Test Instrumentation and IT

The department Flight Test Instrumentation and IT (Information Technology) develops and operates test facilities primarily for flight test, enabling experimental research for external and internal customers.

Safety Critical Systems & Systems Engineering

The department Safety Critical Systems & Systems Engineering focuses on design processes and methods, concepts and technologies for the design and operation of safe and efficient flight control systems. Therefore, appropriate interdisciplinary design and evaluation methods, efficient and safe flight control architectures and technologies and concepts for their control and monitoring are developed.

Militärische Luftfahrzeuge

Die Abteilung Militärische Luftfahrzeuge befindet sich auf dem Gelände der Wehrtechnischen Dienststelle 61 in Manching bei Ingolstadt. In der Abteilung werden im Rahmen von Projekten für die Bundeswehr Fragestellungen aus Qualifikation, Zulassung und Flugerprobung für bemannte und unbemannte militärische Luftfahrzeuge bearbeitet. Die Abteilung trägt zudem die Gesamtverantwortung für Kampfflugzeuge am Institut. Projekte der wehrtechnischen Forschung flankieren dabei den Auf- und Ausbau sowie Erhalt der Analyse- und Bewertungskompetenz für Beauftragungen im Rahmen aktueller militärischer Luftfahrtprojekte.