The WindShaper 1 wind tunnel at the Caltech Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies... Photo: Windshape
The WindShaper 1 wind tunnel at the Caltech Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies. Photo: Windshape - The HES-SO has obtained its first BRIDGE Discovery funding from the SNSF and Innosuisse as the initiator of a project to measure and reproduce the atmospheric turbulence of UAV wind tunnels. Led by Flavio Noca, professor of aeronautics at HEPIA, the project will be carried out in collaboration with the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology. The objective of the project is to develop algorithms for the pixel wind tunnels invented by Professor Noca and his former assistant Guillaume Catry and now marketed by the startup WindShape, which will allow the wind tunnel to learn to faithfully reproduce the environmental wind conditions. The project will use the expertise of Petros Koumoutsakos at ETHZ, who pioneered machine learning methods in fluid mechanics in the 1990s. The measurements will be done by the faculty of Natural, Architectural, and Built Environment (ENAC) at EPFL. In the years to come, the tool will benefit environmental sciences, but will also usher in a new era in aeronautics and air mobility.
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