ARISTOTEL ACPO-GA-2010-266073 2nd Project Periodic Report Publishable summary Project acronym: ARISTOTEL Project full title: Aircraft and Rotorcraft Pilot Couplings – Tools and Techniques for Alleviation and Detection Grant Agreement no.: 266073 Project web site: http://www.aristotel-project.eu/ Project logo: Project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Marilena Pavel Telephone: +31 15 2785374 Fax: +31 15 2789564 E-mail:
[email protected] Beneficiaries: Short N. Name Team leader Contact name 1 Technische Universiteit Delft TU Delft Marilena Pavel
[email protected] 2 Wytwornia Sprzetu Komunikacy PZL- Jacek Malecki
[email protected] Jnego PZL-Swidnik Spolka Akcyjna Swidnik 3 Office National d'Etudes et de ONERA Binh Dang Vu
[email protected] Recherches Aerospatiales 4 Politecnico di Milano POLIMI Pierangelo Masarati
[email protected] 5 Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre UROMA3 Massimo Gennaretti
[email protected] 6 The University of Liverpool UoL Mike Jump
[email protected] 7 Stichting Nationaal Lucht- en NLR Verbeek, Marcel
[email protected] Ruimtevaartlaboratorium 8 SC Straero SA STRAERO Achim Ionita
[email protected] 9 Federal State Unitary Enterprise The TsAGI Larisa Zaichik
[email protected] Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute named after Prof. N.E. Zhukovsky 11 European Research and Project Eurice Corinna Hahn
[email protected] Office GmbH Page 1 of 5 Project context and objectives Fixed and rotary wing pilots alike are familiar with potential instabilities or with annoying limit cycle oscillations that arise from the effort of controlling aircraft with high response actuation systems. Understanding, predicting and supressing these inadvertent and sustained aircraft oscillations, known as Aircraft (Rotorcraft)-Pilot Couplings (A/RPCs) is a challenging problem for all aerospace community.