Mission

To develop new methods and new tools for identification, optimization and automation, intended to predict and control the dynamic behavior of vehicles and systems.

Areas of expertise

The work covers:

• flight dynamics and identification
• system control
• control and decision making
• human factors

The department's favorite area of activity is the aerospace sector but its research applies equally well to submarines and surface vessels, to self-sufficient or remote controlled robotic systems, to large land traffic or air traffic control systems.

Activities

• Active Flow Control
• Active Control of Flexible Structures
• Flexible Aircraft Control
• Satellite Attitude Control Using CMG
• Flight dynamics at High Angles of Incidence
• Aircraft Environment and Flight Quality
• Facteurs humains
• Non-linear Model Identification with neural network
• In-Flight Control, Simulation and Experimentation
• Parallel Robots

Actual Projects

• Action, Cooperation of Multiple Heterogeneous Vehicles
• DTP COCKPIT et FLIPPER
• Ressac, Cooperating Autonomous Search and Rescue System

Former Projects

• COGITE, low frequency roll compensation for the Charles de Gaulle carrier
• Flexible Aircraft Control
• Exhost-Pipe, EXtended High-level Oriented and STandard Platform Independent Petri net Editor
• MOSAS, Flexible Aircraft Modelling
• Perception, Decision Support
• Sacso, Active Suspension for Wind Tunnel Tests
• Vigilant, Autonomous Navigation for Helicopter Drone

European cooperations

• RHILP (flight mechanics)
• ACT-TILT (active control)
• DART (rotor optimisation)

Former European cooperations

• IMMUNE
• HAFUN

Organisation

DCSD is structured in Research Units (UR) :

• "Control and Decision making" Research Unit (CD)
• "Control and Integration" Research Unit (CDIN)
• "Identification and Control" Research Unit (IDCO)
• "Control, Simulation and Flight testing" Research Unit (PSEV)
• "Flight Quality and Secirity" Research Unit (QSV)

Other topics

• Thesis : Offers, Actual Thesis, Thesis Days et Achieved Thesis
• Internship Offers
• Seminars : Control and Identification