Within the department of aerospace science and technology at Italy's Politecnico di Milano, Professor Giuseppe Quaranta leads researchers in the Fixed and Rotary Wing Aircraft Multidisciplinary Engineering (FRAME) Laboratory. He explained, "Our objective is the analysis of aircraft as complex dynamic flying systems, investigating all the dynamic phenomena that involve more than one basic discipline of aerospace engineering such as structural dynamics, aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, servosystems and control and biodynamics." The laboratory has fixed- and motion-based simulators readily reconfigured for different cockpits, and it uses the university wind tunnel to measure rotor and wake interactions. According to Quaranta, "FRAME-Lab works on one side on the numerical and experimental analyses to understand interaction phenomena, and on the other side on methodologies and tools to simplify these complex interaction analyses."
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