370 - Nixus, the Fly-by-Wire Glider

Guest: Paulo Iscold (aero.calpoly.edu/paulo-iscold) Host: Markus Voelter Shownoter: Kolja Dummann

In this episode I talk with Paulo Iscold, a professor or aeronautical engineering at Cal Poly about Nixus Nixus, his most recent project. Nixus is one of the most fascinating and ground-breaking research efforts in the space of gliding. It uses advanced manufacturing techniques to support a very thing wing, plus a fly-by-wire system to control the ailerons and the flaps; the latter are automatically adjusted to the current speed.

Here is the Idaflieg presentation (youtube.com/watch?v=The8dN7pIuI) I mentioned in the intro.

Introduction
00:03:52
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaflieg | Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-10 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaflieg_Braunschweig_SB…) | Schleicher ASH 30 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleicher_ASH_30)

Nixus Airplane
00:11:31
(Omega tau 124 - The Concordia Sailplane (omegataupodcast.net/124-the-concordia-sailplane)) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclave | Ventus Glider (schempp-hirth.com/en/sailplanes/ventus) | Online Contest (OLC) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Contest_(gliding)) | Minden–Tahoe Airport (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minden–Tahoe_Airport) (Idaflieg Lecture with Paulo Iscold: Nixus Project - pushing forward (youtube.com/watch?v=The8dN7pIuI)) | How Nixus is build | Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fiber_reinforced_…) | NASA X-57 Maxwell (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_X-57_Maxwell) | Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_fluid_dyna…)

Wing Accident
00:46:29

Fly by Wire System
00:58:05
(Glider competition classes - Open Class (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_competition_class…)) | Lift coefficient (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_coefficient) (Omega tau 100 - System Health Management (omegataupodcast.net/100-system-health-mgt)) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-485 | Fault tree analysis (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_tree_analysis) | The C Programming Language (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontroller | ARM Cortex-M (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M) | Hardware-in-the-loop simulation (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-in-the-loop_sim…) | Human Machine Interface (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface#Terminology) (Omega tau 106 - Game Theory (omegataupodcast.net/106-game-theory)) | CAN bus (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet