Our interdisciplinary research cluster “Aeronautics Research” pools all intellectual and material resources available at the Helmut-Schmidt-University, University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, to stimulate new ideas and to develop new approaches together with our industrial and scientific research partners, especially in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, concerning future aircraft cabin technologies, alternative fuels and propulsion systems, future lightweight energy supply and distribution systems, logistics, intelligent networked manufacturing and production technologies as well as aircraft safety and testing systems. Exemplarily, some of our research activities are itemized below:

• Holistic real-time environment for measurement and control of acoustics in cabins of aircraft Prof. Dr.-Ing. D. Sachau (Mechatronics, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
• Concepts for architectures of power-supplies in aircraft cabins; Cooperation partner: Airbus Operations GmbH, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. D. Schulz (Electrical Power Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering)
• Auto-adapting cabin power network – Self configurating power system onboard aircraft (ACAPONE); Cooperation partner: EADS / Airbus Operations GmbH, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. D. Schulz (Electrical Power Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering)
• Power electronics for fuel cells; Cooperation partner: Airbus Operations GmbH, Prof. Dr.-Ing. K. F. Hoffmann (Power Electronics, Department of Electrical Engineering)
• Multifunctional fuel cells for aviation; Cooperation partner: Airbus Operations GmbH, Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. Horn (Control Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering)
• Free-flight optimization: planning of flight routes under consideration of weather and crossing costs in 4D space; Cooperation partner: Lufthansa Systems AG and others, Prof. Dr. A. Fügenschuh (Applied Mathematics, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
• Human Hybrid Robot: a new concept for supporting manual assembly tasks (DOI: 10.1007/s11740-013-0487-x) R. Weidner, N. Kong, J. P. Wulfsberg (Production Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
• Development and industrialization methods for composite technologies, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. P. Wulfsberg (Production Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
• BMBF-funded project: Devarnishing of components; Cooperation partner: Lufthansa Technik, Prof. Dr.-Ing. A. Fay (Automation Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
• Concept development for the automation of drilling processes; Cooperation partner: Airbus Operations GmbH, Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Scholl (Electrical Measurement Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering)
• Concept development for production systems enhanced by wireless communication and sensor/actuator systems; Cooperation partner: Airbus Operations GmbH, Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Scholl (Electrical Measurement Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering)
• DFG joint project "Integrated module monitoring in fiber composites by means of lambda wave analysis“ Subproject „Modeling of lambda wave propagation in fiber composite structures and survey of generic damages“; Cooperation partner: Lufthansa Technik, EADS-Innovation Work and Novicos, Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Lammering (Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
• Electromagnetic design and protection against electromagnetic interference conform to aircraft requirements, Prof. Dr.-Ing. S. Dickmann (Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics and Structural Mechanics & Structural Health Monitoring Systems for Lightweight Material, Prof. Dr. M. Bause (Numerical Mathematics, Department of Mechanical Engineering)

Advanced Aerial Mobility der HSU

The use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) bears enormous social and economic potential. The spectrum ranges from compact multicopters, for example for hazard-free inspection of infrastructures, to air taxis, which can be used for emission-free emergency transport of injured persons. These innovative concepts can be summarized under the term Advanced Aerial Mobility (AAM).