Daniel Kiehn

Control System Engineer - FADEC System Design at Rolls-Royce Deutschland

Master thesis in the context of vibration health monitoring in helicopters for condition based maintenance. Title: Analysis and Development of Development of Order Tracking methods for enhanced Vibration Health Monitoring. The results are now used to quantify the limits of current order tracking methods and to define an ideal solution in terms of hardware and processing. Final grade: 1.0

Formal qualification of an avionics software tool used for maintenance purposes in front of EASA, including end-to-end verification. Development of verification capabilities for an integrated avionics simulation platform, including the writing of a user manual for the aforementioned simulator. The work significantly reduced the effort required to introduce certain changes in the avionics software.

Design and implementation of a Matlab tool for visualization of turboengine compressor stages, definition and visualization of compressor blade geometries and for estabilishing compatibility between Matlab optimization tools and off-the-shelf CFD software.

Combined internship and bachelor thesis with the topic "Development of Signal Processing Algorithms for Engine Vibration Monitoring". The algorithms I developed are now used for processing of vibration data within the Maintenance Ground Station of the H145 (formerly EC145T2). The implementation of the algorithms, which are now utilized by customers as well as by Airbus Helicopters maintenance experts, was done in Matlab. Final grade: 1.0

Improvement and enhancement of a linear flight simulation model implemented in Matlab/Simulink, with FlightGear as graphical simulator interface.

Specialization in flight control, aerodynamics and helicopter technology. Master thesis: "Analysis and Development of Order Tracking Methods for enhanced Vibration Health Monitoring" in cooperation with Airbus Helicopters. Final grade: 1.0

Specialization in Aerospace Engineering. Bachelor thesis: "Development of Signal Processing Algorithms for Engine Vibration Monitoring" in cooperation with Airbus Helicopters, final grade: 1.0. Research Project: “Revision of the Laminar-Flow-Table”, final grade: 1.0