Browsing by Subject "Aviònica"

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    • 253. UPC Abroad, l'experiència internacional 

      Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Rectorat (Oficina de Mitjans de Comunicació, 2012-06)
      Article
      Open Access

    • A Fast and flexible emergency trajectory generator : enhancing emergency geometric planning with aircraft dynamics 

      Sáez García, Raúl; Khaledian, Homeyra; Prats Menéndez, Xavier; Guitart, Andréas; Delahaye, Daniel; Feron, Eric (2021)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      We present an automated emergency trajectory generator to compute the best emergency trajectory for a given landing site. A combination of the optimized version of the rapidly exploring random tree algorithm and Dubins ...

    • A Middleware architecture for Unmanned Aircraft Avionics 

      López, Juan; Royo Chic, Pablo; Pastor Llorens, Enric; Barrado Muxí, Cristina; Santamaria Barnadas, Eduard (Uiversity of Irvine, 2007-11)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is a non-piloted airplane designed to operate in dangerous and repetitive situations. With the advent of UAV's civil applications, UAVs are emerging as a valid option in commercial scenarios. ...

    • A proposal for using UAS in radio navigation aids flight inspection 

      Ramírez Alcántara, Jorge; Barrado Muxí, Cristina; Pastor Llorens, Enric; García, J.C. (2009)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      The main objective of this paper is to contribute to the inherent necessity of the aerialtransport system to guarantee the safety of its users in an efficient manner. This efficiency isrequired to accomplish the objective ...

    • Acquisition and transmission of altitude data using the ARINC 429 specification 

      Prados Camargo, Iván (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-04-19)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      This project has been fulfilled within the Erasmus program in collaboration with the School of Telecommunications and Spatial Engineering in Castelldefels and the Center of Resources and Aeronautical Maintenance. We have ...

    • Análisis, diseño e implementación de una herramienta para valorar el estrés producido por la inserción de drones en el espacio aéreo de un controlador 

      Mosquera Gallego, Javier (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-01-18)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      The research group ICARUS of the UPC has developed a simulation environment in which a ground station of a drone communicates with the usual work stations professional of the air traffic controllers and all related to a ...

    • Attitude Determination System for a Phased Array Beamformer 

      Garrucho Moras, Lidia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-02)
      Bachelor thesis
      Restricted access - confidentiality agreement

    • Automatic drone demand generation and evaluation 

      Herranz Bareas, Lluís Xavier (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-09-08)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      This project consists in building a drone traffic generator capable of spawning random operations in a country. This document provides the guidelines to generate the operations taking into account the existing regulation, ...

    • C3 in UAS as a means for secondary navigation 

      Ramírez Alcántara, Jorge; Salazar Hernández, Dagoberto José; Prats Menéndez, Xavier; Barrado Muxí, Cristina (2013-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) navigate using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), but GNSS vulnerability precludes its use as the only means of navigation and requires a secondary means of navigation. A differentiating ...

    • Comparison of GPU computing methodologies for safety-critical systems: an avionics case study 

      Benito Bermúdez, Marc; Trompouki, Matina Maria; Kosmidis, Leonidas; García Martín, David; Carretero Jiménez, Sergio; Wenger, Ken (IEEE, 2021)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Introducing advanced functionalities in safety-critical systems requires using more powerful architectures such as GPUs. However software in safety-critical industries is subject to functional certification, which cannot ...

    • Design and Integration of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle into the USAL architecture 

      Morales Pedro, Ricard (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-12-19)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      The ICARUS research group activities at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) are aimed at the automation and development of on-board avionics and ground systems, supporting both manned and Unmanned Aircraft Systems ...

    • Design of a small 2-stage rocket with quadopter recovery 

      Tersa Pajares, Àlex (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-07-18)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      For decades, model rockets have been built using simple recovery methods. These methods do not provide with active control, and are subject to the wind conditions. The aim of this project is to present a technologically ...

    • Design of an enhanced air data sensor for a very light aircraft 

      Castro Arnau, Oriol; Folch Codera, Anna (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-02-26)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      This project is the following part of a previous thesis about the design, development and implementation of a data acquisition system: “Development of an Integrated Flight Test Instrumentation System for Ultra Light ...

    • Designing avionics for lasers & optoelectronics 

      Chau, H. K.; Boyle, I.; Nisbet-Jones, P.; Bridges, C. P. (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      Unlike imagery-based Earth observation (EO) which has become very widely and cheaply available, gravity sensing EO has not yet emerged from its fundamental science roots. The challenge therefore is to develop gravity sensing ...

    • Development of a modular Kalman Filter based sensor fusion algorithm for air vehicles 

      López Milla, Javier (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-02-28)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Restricted access - author's decision
      Covenantee:   Technische Universität Darmstadt
      [ANGLÈS] Kalman Filter is nowadays one of the most used tool to perform sensor fusion in navigation environments, i.e. combine information from several different sensors to obtain the optimal navigation solution. However, ...

    • Diseño y planificación de un simulador de aviònica para una cabina de DC9 

      Palau Sanz, Sergio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-06-20)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      This final career work will realize a planning and design of the necessary tasks for the construction of an avionics systems and flying simulator in a DC-9 cockpit located at INS Illa dels Banyols in El Prat del Llobregat. ...

    • Disseny d'un simulador d'aviònica per a una cabina de DC9/A320 basat en flight simulator 

      Font Garcia, Bernat (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-07-19)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Aquest projecte tracta sobre el desenvolupament d’un software que permeti enllaçar un simulador de vol i una cabina real de DC9, situada al Institut de la Illa dels Banyols al Prat de Llobregat - Barcelona. Mitjançant ...

    • Disseny del sistema aviònic d'un helicopter IFR Trainer 

      Gispert Llandrich, Eloi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008-02-18)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      L’objectiu de la modificació és transformar un helicòpter Robinson R22 certificat com a VFR a IFR Trainer. Això significa que l’helicòpter es transformarà en un IFR d’entrenament i per tant una vegada realitzada ...

    • Disseny i desenvolupament d'un pilot automàtic per UAS 

      Pérez Batlle, Marcos (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-12-11)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      [ANGLÈS]This project aims at designing and implementing an autopilot for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. This kind of systems which consist of an aircraft without a pilot on board and a ground control system, are gaining ground ...

    • DO-178C certification of general-purpose GPU software: review of existing methods and future directions 

      Trompouki, Matina Maria; Kosmidis, Leonidas (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      —General-Purpose GPU software is considered for use in avionics to satisfy the increased computational requirements of future systems. Therefore, it needs to be certified following the DO-178C guidance as all airborne ...