Contact Person

Prof. Lorenzo Trainelli

Phone Number

+39 02 2399 8387

Mail Address

lorenzo.trainelli@polimi.it

Ongoing activities

• Electric and hybrid-electric aircraft design, analysis, and operations.
• Design of innovative fixed-wing and rotary-wing configurations.
• Strategies for electric and hybrid-electric fleet switching.
• Contactless rotor flapping measurement systems.
• Simulation of low-noise rotorcraft terminal trajectories.
• Cockpit instrumentation for rotorcraft noise monitoring (Pilot Acoustic Indicator).
• Optimal propeller design.
• Rotorcraft control, dynamics, and aeroelasticity.
• Comprehensive Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) system for light aircraft.
• Flight testing for the development and certification of a new ultralight aircraft.
• Optimal trajectory planning for agricultural and environmental aerial missions.
• Automated flight test procedures for UAVs.

Future plans

• Electric rotorcraft design and simulation.
• Continuing enhancement of comprehensive rotorcraft simulation tools.
• Validation of a novel formulation for airplane trim and stability through flight testing.

ERC Keywords

1. PE8_1 Aerospace engineering
2. PE8_4 Computational engineering
3. PE7_1 Control engineering
4. PE7_3 Simulation engineering and modelling

Free Keywords

1. Aircraft design.
2. Electric propulsion in aviation.
3. Fixed-wing aircraft modelling and simulation.
4. Rotary-wing aircraft modelling and simulation.
5. Trajectory optimization.
6. Onboard sensor systems.
7. Cockpit instrumentation.
8. Flight testing.

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