Successful Internships
Published July 04, 2008
CTAE's BEST ASSET: THE HUMAN TALENT
CTAE is proud to announce the successful completion of the Projects of some of our Internship Programmes, which have ended up in high scores.
Carlos Zamora: UPC - CTAE Collaboration
Past 24th of July 2008, at the premises of the UPC Campus in Castelldefels, Carlos Zamora presented his Graduation Project to obtain his Double Bachelor Degree in Telecommunications and Aeronautical Engineering. Mr. Zamora graduated with honours with a project being developed at CTAE, dealing with collaborative groups of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), entitled "Mission planning approach for the control of a collaborative UAV network".
Mr. Zamora’s thesis deals with the challenge of planning and optimising a mission for a group of unmanned aerial vehicles which collaborate to achieve a shared mission objective. The main goal of the project is minimising the time taken by the whole group of collaborative robots to complete the assigned tasks.
The UPC Jury was composed of:
Mr. Carlos Collado Gómez- President
Mr. José Maria González Arbesu- Jury's Spokesperson
Mrs. Jordi Mateu Mateu – Secretary
Mr. Cecilio Angulo Bahón– UPC Project Supervisor
Mr. Marcel Quintana - CTAE's Project Supervisor
Eduard Díez-Lledó: Toulouse - CTAE Collaboration
On the 4th July 2008 Eduard Diez-Lledó successfully defended his PhD thesis at the LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse (Laboratoire d’Architecture et Analyse de Systèmes du Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique) obtaining the maximum degree “très honorable avec mention spécial du jury”. The work entitled “Diagnostic et pronostic de défaillances dans de composants d’un moteur d’avion” was developed in the framework of the European project TATEM (Techologies And Techniques for nEw Maintenance concepts) in collaboration with the enterprise Hispano-Suiza (SNECMA Moteurs).The objective of the work was double: first, to develop a robust fault diagnostic method for aircraft motors, and second to propose a methodology for fault prognostic towards a preventive and adaptive motor maintenance. The research work is based in the domains of fuzzy logics, model identification, parameter estimation and statistical reliability. The outcomes of the research are being tested and validated by the industry partners, looking forward a patent submission on aeronautical maintenance.Taking in account the success of all the TATEM project work packages, the industrial partners are currently considering the possibility of proposing to the European commission a project extension. Moreover, the validation oh the PhD by a European jury composed by three European nationalities, honoured the PhD degree with the European lebel.The
Jury was composed of:
Joseba Quevedo - ETSEIAT UPC, Terrassa (Espanya)
Joseph Aguilar-Martin – LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France)
Georges Stavrakakis- University of Crete, Crete (Greece)
Jean-Rémi Massé- Hispano-Suiza, Groupe SNECMA, Paris (France)
Guy Juanole- Université Paul Sabatier-LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France)
Gérard Favier- Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice (France)".
James McLeod: ISU - CTAE Collaboration
CTAE is proud to announce that the work performed this summer by Mr. James MacLeod, an International Space University (ISU) intern, was highly commended when presented for critical review to an ISU faculty panel. The success of this internship and the associated report was an important factor in the ISU’s decision to award James MacLeod the highest graduating average in the program. As a result, at the recent ISU graduation ceremony in Strasbourg, France, James was awarded his Masters in Space Management degree with the distinction Cum Laude.
The project involved a critical assessment of the microsatellite market, its evolution, and opportunities/challenges in validation and verification tailored to such missions.
Marc Díaz Aguiló: MIT – CTAE Collaboration
Mr. Diaz Aguiló has completed his internship at MIT, having received top marks for his project work. Marc, a student at UPC, was sponsored by CTAE to participate in the SPHERES project at MIT, aimed at development of coordinated attitude and relative position control for free-flyers. The project recently flew successfully on the ISS. The work will be applied to the problem of optimal control of trajectories for coordinated, separate space systems, in particular for targeted optimal interferometric observations using distributed telescopes. CTAE is pleased to have been able to support this project, and looks forward to future collaborations with MIT, and with Marc, in the field of advanced control for space systems.
Information on the SPHERES project is available from the following link: SPHERES