News-Archive
July 2023: New aircraft-designs require new control approaches! Our latest approach provided in AIAA's Journal of Guidance, Navigation and Dynamics with the title "Robust Path-Following Control for High-Altitude Long-Endurance Aircraft" generalizes the Total-Energy Control autopilot concept of Tony Lamregts using robust control methods but maintains all the Total-Energy Control benefits, like explicit anti-windup capabilities.
March 2023: I am happy to announce that our two papers for the 2023 IFAC World Congress in Yokohama, Japan, have been accepted:
F. Thiele, S. Wiesbacher, S. Diaconescu, D. Ossmann, and H. Pfifer. Periodic LQG wind turbine control with adaptive load reduction.
D. Ossmann, C. Weiser, F. Biertümpfel, H. Pfifer, and J. Cieslak . Flight Control Reconfiguration in Oscillatory Failure Case Scenarios.
See you in Yokohama in July 2023!!
February 2023: I am Guest-Editing a special issue in MDPI's Aerospace Journal on Flight Dynamics, Control and Simulation together with Dr. Karim Abu Salem from the Università di Pisa . Papers are accepted until the end of October 20, 2023!
In case you have any further questions, feel free to contact me directly!January 2023: The cooperative work with DLR's institutes of System Dynamics and Control as well as Aeroelastic on Attitude Control for High Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft Considering Structural Load Limits has been presented and published at the 2023 SciTech conference in Washington. Thanks to my co-authors Christian Weiser, Simon Schulz and Arne Voß for the cooperation!
August 2022: We are kicking off the LuFo VI-2 research project "ARCTIS - Active Rotor Controlled via Periodic Scheme".
ARCTIS is a project together with the Institute for Helicopter Technology from TU München and the Chair of Flight Mechanics and Control from TU Dresden on the research of periodic control methods for advanced helicopter rotors. Thanks to the funding by BMWK I have been able to hire a PhD student who will be working on the development and identification of advanced periodic models and researching periodic control methods in the next 3 years.May-July 2022: Conference Season is back after the pandemic!
In the next months in total three new coauthored papers in cooperation with DLR as well as TU Dresden will be presented. One at SAFEPROCESS in Cyprus, one at the Mediterranean Control Conference in Athens and finally one at the Int. Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics in Madrid.Christan Weiser (DLR) and Daniel Ossmann: Fault-Tolerant Control for a High Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft, Safeprocess
Christan Weiser (DLR), Daniel Ossmann and Harald Pfifer (TU Dresden): Robust Path-Following Control with Anti-Windup for HALE Aircraft, Mediterranean Control Conference
Simon Schulz (DLR) and Daniel Ossmann: Estimation of global structural aircraft loads due to atmospheric disturbances for structural fatigue estimation, IFASD
NEWS ARCHIVE:
2021
December: The following papers have been presented at the AIAA SciTech conference
Christan Weiser (DLR) and Daniel Ossmann: Baseline Flight Control System for High Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft. Session: Aircraft GNC VIII
M.Pusch, T. Kier, M. Tang , J. Dillinger, D. Ossmann Advanced: Gust Load Alleviation using Dynamic Control Allocation. Session: Dynamics Specialists
M. Wuestenhagen, D. Ossmann, C. Poussot-Vassal and P. Vuillemin: Synthesis of a Multiple-Model Adaptive Gust Load Alleviation Controller for a Flexible Flutter Demonstrator. Session: Dynamics Specialists
October: Big news, since October 1st I officially hold a Research Professorship at HM! That means less teaching and more time for conducting research!
March 2021: I am Guest-Editing a special issue in MDPI's Aerospace Journal on Aircraft Fault Detection. All information can be accessed via this Link. Papers are accepted until the end of September 2021!
Update Nov. 2021: The special issue is closed now! In total 5 interesting contributions where published.February 2021
The paper Field testing of multi-variable individual pitch control on a utility-scale wind turbine authored by myself, Peter Seiler from the University of Michigan, Christopher Milliren from the University of Minnesota and Alan Danker from Cybernetics has been published in the renowned Renewable Energy journal.
The 2019 paper "Structured Control Design for a Highly Flexible Flutter Demonstrator" by Manuel Pusch (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), myself (Munich University of Applied Sciences) and Tamas Luspay (SZTAKI (Institute for Computer Science and Control)) on the control system design for the FLEXOP demonstrator aircraft has just been selected as the best research article published in 2019 in the MDPI Aerospace journal.
March 2021
After the two successful courses held in Paris (2018) and Padova (2019), we Andras Varga and myself held a third 21-hour Graduate Module Course on "Model-Based Fault Diagnosis - a Linear Synthesis Framework using MATLAB", online in Zoom this time! The course summary is available here. The course is organized by the International Graduate School on Control, with Technical Co-sponsorships of IFAC and IEEE. The deadline for advance registration is December 31, 2020 (click here for online registration).
2018-2019
December 2019
Participation at the 58th Conference on Decision and Controls 2019 in Nice France. I am presenting the joint work with Harald Pfifer from the University of Nottingham on robustness analysis of time periodic systems.September 2019
I am staring a my new position as professor for control engineering at the Hochschule München (Munich University of Applied Sciences).August 2019
First flight of the Flexop demonstrator @EDMO airfield. A demonstrator to show active flutter suppression control techniques. I highly supported the design of the baseline and flutter controller which are to be tested in September.July 2019
Visiting my Postdoc location, the Univ. of Minnesota, to meet former colleagues and perform wind turbine experiments.March 2019
Conference visit at the IEEE Aerospace in Big Sky Montana.September 2018
Web-page launch: The idea of the web-page is to provide an easy access to my research contribution, provide current contact information and be able to share current and future software tools with the research community. Enjoy!