Politecnico di Torino

Politecnico di Torino is a leading public university in Italy; it has more than 33,000 students enrolled in 115 courses. POLITO always relied on close ties with both government and industry: it draws up an yearly average of about 800 contracts with industries, government funded institutions and local organizations. POLITO has more than 150 bilateral international agreements and 40 double degree agreements, and has permanent links with the most prestigious European academic institutions. Moreover, POLITO is part of some of the major European interuniversity networks, such as CESAER, CLUSTER, E.C.I.U, EUA, CMU and PEGASUS. The participation to many international projects allows POLITO to count on a great experience: within FP7 POLITO participated to more than 200 approved projects and was coordinator for 20 of them, with a total EU contribution of over 62 millions euros.

The research activity will be performed by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering "DIMEAS" and by the Department of Control and Computer Engineering "DAUIN". The fields of competence of these Departments relevant to the research project are:

For the DIMEAS: flight mechanics; applied aerodynamics; modeling and simulation of fixed wing aircraft dynamics for real-time simulation; aircraft systems design; electromechanical actuation; servocontrols; RAMS and life-cycle cost estimation; prognostics and health management; test rigs design, modeling and simulation; real-time software, systems engineering methodology. The Department has a long standing experience in the previously mentioned areas and has been granted several research contracts from leading aerospace companies such as AleniaAermacchi, AgustaWestland, United Technologies Aerospace Systems, AvioAero. The Department is currently a partner in the Actuation2015 (FP7) and in the Gurney flap actuator (CleanSky) European research programmes.

The DAUIN is the point of reference in Politecnico di Torino for the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) which studies the methodologies and technologies used for the management, processing and transmission of information. DAUIN promotes, coordinates and manages basic and applied research, training, technology transfer and services to the local community in the areas of systems and control engineering, computer science and computer engineering and operations research.