Phd Thesis in Formation and Constellation Design - Immenstaad am Bodensee, Deutschland - Airbus

Airbus

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Immenstaad am Bodensee, Deutschland

vor 3 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

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Beschreibung

Are you looking for a PhD? Would you like to work on cutting edge GNC system design for complex missions?

Location:
Friedrichshafen

Start:
Spring 2023

Duration: 3 years

The AOCS, GNC & Flight Dynamics Analysis department is the center of competence in Airbus for attitude and orbit control systems (AOCS), Guidance/Navigation/Control (GNC), flight dynamics, and control engineering for all kinds of spacecraft.

Research Topic

Current and future agile Earth Observation (EO) missions require advanced design, analysis and optimization methods in order to achieve the required performance efficiently.

There is as a strong need for further developing mission design, analysis and planning methods for agile radar and optical missions.

The current methods and tools need to be extended with key functionality and structured well to answer responsively to mission scenarios requested by the customer during the Phase A and later in B/C/D.

Mission performance analysis (high target density acquisition, coverage in AOI, timeliness) in high detail is fundamental to trade system parameters and resources, an early enabler and cost-saver in the mission design phase.

Advanced optimization methods for mission planning are required for the operational phase, with the reuse and enhancement of logics and methods derived already in mission performance analysis.

The results shall be consolidated in generic toolsets and processes, which are applicable to a vast number of other EO missions.

Your tasks and responsibilities

Literature review on stateoftheart planning and optimization approaches.
Define sustainable framework architecture and stakeholder requirements for EO formation/constellation design and performance analysis.
Develop and demonstrate optimization methods on EO mission planning and derive prototype code for operationalization.
Increasing system performance and robustness (optimized Re-Planning capabilities e.g. in case of system parameter variation in operation etc.).
Improve mission design and operational phases, saving system resources and costs.

Desired skills and qualifications

Master's degree within Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering student or similar field of study.
Significant and relevant experience with MATLAB (also objectoriented) is a requirement.
Solid background in orbital dynamics, spacecraft dynamics and software development. Preferably first practical experience within these fields.
Knowledge and experience on optimization methods and planning heuristics.
Experience with other simulation environments (e.g. GMAT) would be an asset
Experience with Fortran, C/C++ would be an asset.
English is mandatory, German would be an asset.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

Contract Type:

PHD, Research Contract / Doctorat, Contrat CIFRE / Doktorandenvertrag / Tesis doctoral

Experience Level:

Student / Etudiant / Student / Estudiante

Job Family:

Vehicle Mission & Control

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