Dynamic Soaring

Are you passionate about aerodynamics, flight dynamics and new propulsion strategies? Join our team to explore Dynamic Soaring, a flight technique inspired by seabirds that increases the endurance of UAVs by exploiting wind gradients. This postdoctorate offers a unique opportunity to combine experimental measurements and advanced simulations to better understand and control this innovative flight strategy.

Dynamic Soaring (DS) is a flight strategy that exploits wind gradients to increase the energy of an aircraft without active propulsion. Inspired by seabirds, this technique extracts kinetic energy from wind variations, thereby improving the endurance of UAVs in flight.

This postdoctorate is part of advanced research aimed at better understanding and exploiting this strategy by combining experimental measurements and flight dynamics simulations.