Design & Development Final Thesis within Engineering: Advanced Helicopter Operations Data Analysis Airbus Helicopters Donauwörth, GER See job details

Job description

Description of the job

Are you looking for a final year project? Would you like to discover the work of a Helicopter Design team? Then apply now! We look forward to you joining us at the department HUMS/Flight Data Germany in Donauwörth from October/November 2015 on for a master/diploma thesis.

Understanding the hazardous situations and inherent risks of everyday helicopter operations allows operators to minimize unsafe acts and respond to them proactively before they lead to major incidents and accidents. Helicopter Flight Data Monitoring (HFDM) is a systematic method of accessing, analyzing and acting upon information obtained from flight data. It uses automated flight data analysis algorithms and 3D flight visualization tools which help to analyze and assess the risks in helicopter operations. Currently HFDM programs are becoming more popular due to the growing industry demand for increased safety. As a result the development of advanced and automated tools helping to analyze and improve helicopter operations safety is essential.

Topic of this final thesis: Concept Development for Advanced Helicopter Operations Data Analysis

Mission of the department is to propose, develop, implement and manage the Health / Usage / Flight Data Monitoring functions, Data Management concepts and advanced maintenance approaches such as Condition-Based Maintenance.

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Tasks & accountabilities

Your role will involve the following:

Concept development:

· Identification of simple and complex events relevant to helicopter safety based on flight data
· Concept development to identify unusual and complex flight situations based on statistical and machine learning methods
· Advanced algorithms development to determine a global helicopter safety level

Software implementation:

· Software development for an automated analysis of flight data
· Integration of the program with in-house flight data analysis tools and 3D flight visualisation SW

Analysis of flight data:

· Validation of the flight data analysis concepts
· Evaluation of helicopter operational use based on helicopter fleet data
· Analysis using 3D helicopter flight visualisation software

Desired profile

Required skills

You offer:

· Enrolled (master/diploma) student within Aerospace Engineering, Information Sciences, Avionics, Mathematics or similar field of study
· Experienced in programming and highly confident in MATLAB
· High affinity with statistics and machine learning techniques
· Strong interest to familiarize with helicopter flight data monitoring, analysis and visualisation tools
· English: fluent, negotiation

You are a good team player, have excellent communication skills, and are able to work independently.