Thesis Colloquium / Defence

Reconnaissance is the contest for information about a territory: one side tries to observe an asset or a guarded area, the other tries to deny it. Low-cost drones have made this contest cheap and constant, and protecting critical infrastructure against it is now a crucial problem, because an intruder no longer needs to strike a […]

The rapid development of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has led to the emergence of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, with many current concepts relying on tilt-rotor or other complex propulsion-conversion mechanisms to achieve vertical take-off and landing followed by efficient forward flight. While these configurations provide the required operational flexibility, the mechanical complexity […]