Eduard Diez-Lledó
Aerospace & Aeronautics R+D Engineer
Eduard obtained his Engineering Degree in Thermodynamic Systems from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), after developing the final degree project at the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) in the domain of thermodynamics applied to renewable energies. During his Engineering Degree, he also attended a summer school for 2 months in the area of environmental sciences, held at UMIST Manchester, in 2001.
Permanently motivated and interested in the aerospace and aeronautics domain, He moved to Toulouse (France) in 2003, where He obtained the Master Degree in Automatic Systems, integrating himself into a research team at LAAS (Laboratoire d’Architecture et analyse de systèmes), from the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
While when developing his Master Degree, He had the opportunity to work in collaboration with the company Hispano-Suiza (Groupe Safran) in the development of diagnostic systems and methodologies for the health monitoring of airplane sensors. Eduard completed his education attending classes at SUPAERO and ENAC.
Following the Master Degree, He obtained a scholarship to develop a PhD at LAAS-CNRS in the framework of the European project TATEM (Techniques And Technologies for advanced aeronautics Maintenance). The work developed during the thesis was focused on diagnostic and prognostic approaches towards airplane engines adaptive maintenance and health monitoring, using methodologies in the domain of the system state estimators, artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, and information and reliability theory.
During the TATEM project, Eduard collaborated with companies in the aeronautic domain such as TechspaceAero (Belgium) and Smith Aerospace (UK). He had also the opportunity to participate at the CEAS Congress (Council of European aerospace Societies, 2007) and EADS-Astrium workshop held in Munich (Germany), presenting the work developed during his PhD.
Since 2009 Eduard has been involved in two main projects:
Responsible for the work package concerning safety and trajectory algorithms in the framework of the project SLT (système de localization et trajectographie) lead by CNES ground segment directorate in the specific domains of:
- Filtering, prediction and extrapolation of trajectories in propelled and ballistic phases
- Safety algorithms for real-time impact prediction
- Ground measurement means preparation for real-time launcher monitoring
- Quality factors and algorithms conception for real-time decision making operations
Study and analysis of new technologies and applications in airborne micro-launchers conception. GTD collaboration in the framework of ALDEBARAN project lead by CNES (French space agency), including DLR (German space agency) and CDTI (Spanish technology centre) in the framework of research and development of:
- Research on autonomous flight-safety algorithms and architectures towards on-board launcher flight safety. Research on FDIR technologies (Fault Diagnostic, Isolation and Recovery) for launcher safety subsystem.
- Research in Hybrid Navigation architectures as part of the GNC launcher subsystem (guidance, navigation and control), focused in GNSS (global navigation satellite system) and inertial sensors
Part time professor at ETSEIAT-UPC aeronautical school teaching "aeronautical and space propulsion"