International Workshop on Engineering for Rotorcraft Safety
Virtual Workshop 7-9 April 2021
Program
UPDATE: March 17 2021, The program of the workshop has been published here
UPDATE: March 17, 2021 The participation to the workshop is free but participant must register sending an email at nitros.ejd@gmail.com with subject: Registration to NITROS International Workshop on Engineering for Rotorcraft Safety
Introduction
Given the ongoing global pandemic, the workshop will be an on-line event using live video streaming and interactive sessions. More information will be posted as it becomes available.
Organized by the European Commission H2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions MSCA-EJD NITROS, this workshop brings together the industrial and research community working on rotorcraft development from a safety perspective.
Helicopters currently perform crucial operations in different sectors providing a valuable contribution to society. Several issues are addressed by NITROS through innovative approaches in a unique cross-disciplinary research and training program with the goal of increasing safety and, as a consequence, the use and the public acceptance of rotorcraft.
The workshop will include invited lectures as well as presentations from researchers within the H2020 MSCA-EJD NITROS research and training network.
Workshop Topics
The objective is to discuss how engineering can be used to identify ways to reduce helicopter accidents. All topics related to aircraft design, analysis of the complex flight environment and human machine interaction are of interest. Contributions are solicited addressing technologies, processes, and design methodologies to increase rotorcraft and VTOL safety, including both new design and legacy helicopters. Topics of interest are:
- Development of new technologies to specifically address accident causal factors
- Novel analysis methods to allow for a better design for safety of new aircraft
- Operational procedures for accident avoidance, including procedures for pilot training
- Certification approaches to improve safety of vertical flight, including validation and verification methodologies for aircraft and operation models
Author instructions
A short abstract of 500 words maximum should be submitted to the workshop and the following deadlines are in place
Abstract due by November 30, 2020
Notifications of acceptance will be issued by December 15, 2020.
Two-page extended abstracts will be required by March 15, 2021
Both short and extended abstracts will be included in the workshop booklet, to be made available to all participants and released online on the NITROS webpage www.nitros-ejd.org
Selected contributors will be invited to submit a paper to a peer-reviewed special issue of Aerospace Science and Technology journal dedicated to rotorcraft safety.
Abstract should be sent to nitros.ejd@gmail.com
Important dates
Short abstract submission November 30, 2020
Notification of acceptance December 15, 2020
Two pages extended abstract March 15, 2021
Presentations sent by April 5, 2021
Workshop April 7-9, 2021
Committee
Chair
Prof. Giuseppe Quaranta, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Technical program committee
Prof. George Barakos, University of Glasgow, UK
Prof. Marilena Pavel, Delft University of Technology, NL
Prof. Mark White, University of Liverpool, UK
Prof. Pierangelo Masarati, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Mr. Luca Medici, Leonardo Helicopter Division, IT
For further information please write to giuseppe.quaranta@polimi.it
The workshop is sponsored by the European chapters of the Vertical Flight Society (Italy Chapter, UK Chapter, Germany Chapter) and by the Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA, Italian Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics), a member of CEAS.
3nd NITROS Training School on Rotorcraft modeling for Safety
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Milano, Italy 28-31 January 2020
The Third Training Summer school will be dedicated to Rotocraft Model Validation and Verification for Certification, and will be organized by POLIMI together with Leonardo HelicopterDivision. It will be held in Milano and includes a full day at Leonardo Plants of Cascina Costa to meet several components of the Aircraft System Design department and a vistit to the experimental line and few very interesting rotorcraft, included the prototype of AW609 tiltrotor.
45th European Rotorcraft Forum
Warsaw, Poland 17-20 September 2019
The European Rotorcraft Forum is one of the premier events in the rotorcraft community’s calendar bringing together manufacturers, research centres, academia, operators and regulatory agencies to discuss advances in research, development, design, manufacturing, testing and operation of rotorcraft.
Several papers by NITROS members will be presented. Stay tuned for an exact schedule.
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2nd NITROS Training School on Environmental Factors on Rotorcraft Safety
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK 4-8 March 2019
1st NITROS Training School on Human Factors in Rotorcraft
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, The Netherlands 12-17 September 2018
The First Training Summer school on Human factors in rotorcraft is coming. It will be held in TU Delft and will have lectures by several internationally recognized experts on Human Factors in Aerospace together with several practical experience exploting the capabilities of the TUD SIMONA Flight Simulator.
44th European Rotorcraft Forum
Delft, The Netherlands 18-21 September 2018
The European Rotorcraft Forum is one of the premier events in the rotorcraft community’s calendar bringing together manufacturers, research centres, academia, operators and regulatory agencies to discuss advances in research, development, design, manufacturing, testing and operation of rotorcraft.
Several papers by NITROS members will be presented. Stay tuned for an exact schedule.
74th American Helicopter Society Forum
May 14-17, 2018 Phoenix, Arizona, USA
AHS International’s 74th Annual Forum & Technology Display is the world’s leading international technical event on vertical flight technology. The three-day meeting will include over 250 technical papers on every discipline from Acoustics to Unmanned Systems, as well as dozens of invited presentations and discussions by leaders in the military, government agencies and industry.
NITROS will present a paper during the Safety Session Wed. May 16, 2018 – 08:00 to 12:15
We will be happy to meet and discuss with all interested people during the conference.
11th Rotorcraft Symposium
Cologne, Marriott Hotel, 5th & 6th December 2017
The Rotorcraft Symposium, organized by EASA European Aviation Safety Agency, is the European reference event which provides a forum to discuss developments in the rotary wings domain and their safety objectives and achievements.
NITROS will participate to this event with a presentation on the objectives of the Network.
We will be happy to meet and discuss with all interested people during the conference.
https://www.easa.europa.eu/newsroom-and-events/events/11th-rotorcraft-symposium#group-easa-downloads
January 2018 Update: you can watch a video of the presentation on the conference website and a pdf copy of the slides
43rd European Rotorcraft Forum
September 12-15 2017 Milano, Italy
The European Rotorcraft Forum is one of the premier events on the rotorcraft community’s calendar. It brings together manufacturers, research centres, academia, operators and regulatory agencies to dicuss about research, development, design, manufacturing, testing and rotorcraft operations.
This Forum will be the 43rd in a series of meetings which take place annually across Europe, rotating around the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands and Russia. The first ERF was held in Southampton, England, in 1975 and the most recent in Lille, France, in 2016.
The NITROS project will participate to the exhibition. We will be happy to meet and discuss with all interested people during the conference.
73rd Annual Forum and Technology Display
May 9-11, 2017 Fort Worth, Texas, USA
AHS International’s 73rd Annual Forum & Technology Display is the world’s leading international technical event on vertical flight technology. The three-day meeting will include over 250 technical papers on every discipline from Acoustics to Unmanned Systems, as well as workshops, invited presentations and discussions by nearly 50 leaders in industry and government.
The Technology Display, running concurrent with the Forum, is the most extensive exposition of cutting-edge vertical flight technologies in the world, and also includes other technologies more broadly applicable to aerospace in general. Leading manufacturers, service providers, defense agencies, universities, and research and development organizations will showcase the very latest in vertical flight technology.
The NITROS project supervisor will participate to the Forum to disseminate the objectives of NITROS project to the Rotorcraft Community.