Florian Holzapfel

Lehrstuhl für Flugsystemdynamik /Institute of Flight System Dynamics
Technische Universität München

Research Interest: In close collaboration with national and international research organizations, but preferably with small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, his institute contributed to the development of different eVTOLs over the last decade, including multicopters, lift-and-cruise, and vectored thrust configurations.

Speech Title：Vehicle Agnostic Aspects to make Low Altitude Economy successful

Abstract:While most research in the field of Low Altitude Economy is vehicle-centric, focusing on the actual vehicles and their development, this presentation will address aspects of common interest beyond the individual vehicle, which in many cases will need a consensus between the different manufacturers, as airspace, vertiport infrastructure, as well as navigation, and communication means will have to be shared between operators. Therefore, this presentation will address aspects such as airspace utilization, failure-aware trajectory design, terminal area operations, mixed-reality-supported flight training, and verification & certification support through methods such as counter-optimization or mission task element flight testing.

Bio

Florian Holzapfel is Full Professor at Technische Universität München (TUM). After his diploma in Aerospace Engineering and a short industrial attachment, he pursued his Ph.D. in nonlinear adaptive flight control of UAVs at TUM from 2000 to 2004. From 2004 to 2007, he was a flight simulation and control project leader at IABG mbH in Ottobrunn, Germany.In October 2007, he joined the TUM Institute of Flight System Dynamics (FSD) as its director, covering modeling, simulation, guidance, navigation, and control of aerial vehicles and aspects of avionics, safety, and certification.TUM-FSD is dedicated to applied research, following a holistic approach from fundamental research to product development.In close collaboration with national and international research organizations, but preferably with small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, his institute contributed to the development of different eVTOLs over the last decade, including multicopters, lift-and-cruise, and vectored thrust.