Main research areas:

Fault Prevention

Techniques to avoid faults during system life cycle development

Airworthiness
Software Safety (Software engineering, Software specification and modelling)
Reliability,Safety and Security embedded in Design

Fault Forecasting
Techniques to forecast failures, their modes, their occurrence, their effects

System and Software Reliability, Availability , Maintainability Safety and Security (RAMSS) Analysis
Risk Analysis

Fault Removal

Techniques to reduce faults

Software Verification and Validation

Fault Tolerance

Techniques to guarantee resiliencefor the system

Integrated System Health Management (ISHM)

Mission Management paradigms
Systems Interoperability

Project Validation

Measures of effectiveness

Tools:

•            Netlogo for multiagent paradigm modelling
•            STK for UAVs missions
•            MATLAB
•            Eclipse for Java programming
•            STARuml for UML modelling
•            Relex for RAMS analysis

Among the software codes developed in house:

•            ACADEMIA: software- Archiving Workbench to allow numerical- experimental comparison
•            Drone fleet mission planning
•            Drone Fleet mission optimizer
•            Encounter Model

IRON - Innovative turbopROp configuratioN

LED - Long Endurance Demonstrator

SHAFT - SyntHetic jet Actuators for Flow conTrol

FTB4UAS Flight Test Bed For UAS

SIMACE - System for monitoring of environmental conditions in hostile conditions

SMAF – Smart AirFrame

AIRGREEN 2 - Morphing Wing Technology

CAPRI Carrello per Atterraggio con Attuazione Intelligente

CERVIA - Innovative methods for Design and Certification of advanced aircraft composite structures

GAINS - Green AIrframe Icing Novel System

AIRONE - Cheap Online Weather Information Service for the Personal Air Vehicles sector

CTNA TILTROTOR FX

MISE - Applications for electronics of not piloted aircraft

CASTLE - CAbin Systems design Toward passenger welLbEing

COAST - COst-effective Avionic SysTem

DANTE - Development of Aero-vibro-acoustics Numerical and Technical Expertise

FLPP3-DOC Demise Observation Capsule

HEXAFLY-INT - High-Speed Experimental Fly Vehicles-International

INTERSTADIO GRID - The Interstage 2/3 of the new European launcher, VEGA C

ISAA – Imaging antenna System based on Aperiodic feeding Arrays

LIPROM – Liquid Propulsion Research on Oxygen Methane

ASCI - Safety-critical interoperability applications amongst autonomous heterogeneous systems

BIG DATA FACILITY

MIDA - Photo-interpretation with high resolution optical satellite images

CAPPADOCIA - Coordination Action Pro “Production, Avionics, Design” on Cost-efficiency in Aeronautics

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