ADDSAFE FP7 

Project title: Advanced Fault Diagnosis for Sustainable Flight Guidance and Control

Project life-span: 2010-2012

Project partners:  Deimos Space (Project Coordinator, Spain), DLR (Germany), Airbus (France), Delft Technical University (The Netherlands), Hull University (UK), University of Leicester (UK), SZTAKI (Hungary)

Subject: - Air Transportation Systems, Sustainability and Safety of Commercial Air Transport

Challenge: - Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency, Environment and Future European Air Transport Challenges, Quality and Affordability in Air Transport

Objective: - Contribution to more efficient aircraft structural design and sustainable avionic systems development

Summary: - Based on the scientific relations with key players in space and avionic system developers, companies, universities and research institutions, the research project ADDSAFE aims to develop advanced methods and technologies for the detection of faults and system malfunctions in airplane structures. This is done in an attempt to make advanced aircraft construction and design more economical, environment aware and sustainable. The novel approach contributes to the establishment of new, more efficient and environment friendly airplane production technologies at Airbus.

RECONFIGURE FP7 

Project title: REconfiguration of CONtrol in Flight for Integral Global Upset REcovery

Project life-span: 2013-2015

Project partners:  DEIMOS SPACE (ES), Airbus (FR), DLR (DE), ONERA (FR), SZTAKI (HU), TU Delft (NL), University of Exeter (UK), University of Cambridge (UK), SZTAKI (Hungary)

Subject: - Air Transportation Systems, Sustainability and Safety of Commercial Air Transport, Electrical Flight Control System, Fault Tolerant Control, Guidance & Control, 

Challenge: - Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency, Environment and Future European Air Transport Challenges, Quality and Affordability in Air Transport

Objective: - Improve availability of advanced guidance and control laws (rational: make pilot task easier)

Summary: - Commercial aircraft fault tolerant control (FTC) strategies in the flight control system (FCS) are based on fail-safe approaches whereby a nominal control law is switched first to a robust solution and then if necessary to a direct law controlling the actuators surfaces. Each component of the control law set is designed off-line and has a different level of robustness and performance. The reasons for this conservative FTC approach are: (1) the lack of demonstrated maturity of reconfigurable guidance and control (G&C) methods for commercial aircrafts, (2) the lack of research in the practical interaction limitations between reconfigurable G&C systems and estimation/diagnostic systems, moreover, (3) the definite gap on the clearance problem for such G&C systems.

The goal of RECONFIGURE is to investigate and develop aircraft G&C technologies that facilitate the automated handling of off-nominal events and optimize the aircraft status and flight while maintaining, or even improving, its safety level. These technologies will extend the operation of the current G&C functionalities that assist the pilot and optimize the aircraft performance. Thus, the aim is to provoke a change in aircraft transport towards: “Full-time, all-event availability of performance-enhancement electrical fly-by-wire”. This will be achieved by developing advanced parameter and fault estimation/diagnosis approaches, reconfigurable G&C methods,  integrated approaches for estimation, diagnosis and G&C,  and other advanced clearance approaches for such systems.

The investigation will focus on off-nominal/abnormal event scenarios directly affecting the aircraft flight control system. The techniques will offer the capability to adjust and adapt to the abnormal event during flight.

ACTUATION 2015 FP7 

Project title: Modular Electro Mechanical Actuators for ACARE 2020 Aircraft and Helicopters

Project life-span: 2011-2014

Project partners:  ACTUATION 2015 is coordinated by UTC Aerospace (formerly GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS SAS (F)) and involves 53 partners from all over Europe.

Subject: - Air Transportation Systems, Sustainability and Safety of Commercial Air Transport, Electrical Flight Control System, Fault Tolerant Control, Electromechanical Actuators

Challenge: - The All-Electric Aircraft is a major target for the next generation of aircraft to lower consumption of non-propulsive power and thus fuel burn. To eliminate hydraulic circuits, pumps and reservoirs, Electro Mechanical Actuators (EMA) are mandatory but now need to meet cost, reliability and weight requirements from the airframers.

Summary: - ACTUATION 2015 aims to develop and validate a common set of standardised, modular and scalable EMA resources for all actuators (flight control, high lift, main landing gear, door, thrust reverser) and all types of aircraft (business/regional/commercial airplanes and helicopters).

Compared to the A320, ACTUATION 2015 will reduce the overall Life Cycle Costs of actuators by 30%, improve reliability by 30% and reduce aircraft weight by 500kg. The project relies on recent advances made in EU and national projects to integrate the required technologies (solid state power distribution, power electronics, operation in harsh conditions, jam tolerant EMA) to overcome the current barriers to EMA and mature EMA technologies to TRL 5.

Standardising EMA modules (motors, power drive electronics, mechanics, sensing) will be a key enabler to succeed in achieving cost objectives and developing the supply chain. Standardisation will start during the project with the support of a standardisation body (CEN).

The technical approach will be to gather detailed airframes requirements, specify a set of standard modules and develop prototypes for assessment at component and actuator level through rig tests and the virtual validation of modules. In parallel, a unified EMA design process supported by standard methods and tools will also be developed. ACTUATION 2015 will complement existing projects, notably CLEAN SKY SGO with an EMA solution, and pave the way towards the ACARE 2020 All-Electric Aircraft.

The role of SZTAKI in the project involves mathematical modeling, uncertainty analysis using worst-case tools, development of advanced design concepts for actuator position control and force fight compensation, and model based fault detection methods.

ACTUATION 2015 is a 3 year integrated project comprising 53 partners representing the European stakeholders of the actuation and airframe sectors from 12 countries.

ITSSv6 FP7 

Project title: IPv6 ITS Station Stack for Cooperative Systems FOTs, ICT Call 6

Project life-span: 2011-2014

Project partners:  INRIA (Project Coordinator, France), University of Murcia (Spain), Telecom Bretagne (France), IPTE (Austria), Bluetechnix (Austria), SZTAKI (Hungary), lesswire (Germany)

Subject: - Intelligent Transportation Systems, Cooperative Systems, Field Operational Tests (FOTs) for Integrated Safety Systems and Cooperative Systems, Mobile IPv6

Challenge: - ICT for Mobility, Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency

Objective: - ICT for Mobility of the Future 

Summary: - The objective of the ITSSv6 project is to develop a reference open-source IPv6 ITS Station stack freely available to European and national third parties (projects, industry and academia) using IPv6 for Internet-based communications in Field Operational Tests (FOTs) of Cooperative Systems. The project aims at further specifying the concept of the ITS Station as standardised by ISO TC204 WG16 (CALM) and ETS TC ITS with brushed up existing and additional IPv6 features required for operational deployment of Cooperative Systems i.e. enhanced performance, embedded security, remote management of deployed systems and ease of configuration. The project takes as an input the FP6 CVIS core communication software and additional modules developed by FP7 GeoNet and produces an enhanced IPv6 ITS Station stack adapted to operational use in large scale Field Operational Tests. From a specification view point, the IPv6 features are well integrated within the overall ITS Station architecture (particularly ITS Station management and ITS facilities). As a result, the IPv6 software release fits with recommended physical interfaces (802.11p and 3G) and benefit to Cooperative Systems applications (road safety, traffic efficiency and infotainment types of applications which require Internet communications). The project gathers key partners from the CVIS and GeoNet project and key expertise in the specification and development of the IPv6 software. Reasonable resources are allocated for the training, portability and integration of the IPv6 stack release into the system architecture used by a selection of third parties identified early on at the very beginning of the project. Prospective users are constantly informed of the progress of the project through a user forum and regular newsletter, software version releases and bug fixes. Project partners actively participate to the continuing standardisation effort in order to improve standards and to fill up gaps in standards whenever relevant. In parallel, a scientific evaluation of the performance of the IPv6 stack is performed both indoor under idealistic conditions and outdoor under realistic situations. 

National and Internal Self-Financed  Projects 

sensITSv6

Project title: Ultra low-power communications for intelligent vehicle and transportation systems applications

Project life-span: 2012-2013

Project partners:  Co-partnership of SCL and DSD Laboratories of SZTAKI

Subject: - Intelligent Transportation Systems, Cooperative Systems, Integrated Safety Systems and Cooperative Systems, Mobile IPv6, 6LowPAN, IEEE 802.15.4, Low-Power Communications, Sensor Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems

Challenge: - ICT for Mobility, Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency, Internet of Things 

Objective: - ICT for Mobility of the Future 

Summary: - The objective of the sensITSv6 project is to develop new methods for low-power and ultra-low-power wireless communications for applications in Intelligent Vehicles and Transportation Systems. Investigation of solutions for the embedment of sensor networks in the standardised ITS communications architecture (ISO 21217) and interfacing sensory data collected from the roadside infrastructure to vehicles through the extension of the architecture via a new convergence layer is in the focus of the research. Exploration of novel mobility methods and the application of mobile IPv6 addressing in accessing and control of the elements of the low-power sensor network is of a primary objective. Development of demonstrations in realistic roadside environments validates the results.

TRUCKDAS 

Project title: Innovation of distributed driver assistance systems for a commercial vehicle platform

Project life-span: 2012-2013

Project partners:  Knorr-Bremse Braking Systems Ltd (Project Coordinator), SZTAKI (Hungary), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Trigon Kft. 

Subject: - Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vehicle control

Objective: - ICT for Mobility of the Future 

Summary: - Research in intelligent vehicle control is of major importance from the point of view of both the national automobile industry and logistics gaining importance. The research and development activities in the project TRUCKDAS provided new results in the field of intelligent and cooperative vehicle control systems. The cooperative control creates a coordination of the individual components within a group and guarantees the performances of the entire system. Although in this case the priority of the global goals override the local requirements, simultaneously the local requirements must be met at least partially. The integration of active vehicle control components of the steering and braking systems, the design of sensor fusion and network-based communication solu-tions and the design of fault-tolerant vehicle architectures were the main directions of driver assistance control systems. The control of coordinated platoon systems and that of intelligent unmanned vehicle systems were the main results of the cooperative vehicle control methods.