Corentin Lepais
Corentin Lepais is a Research Associate at the Institute of System Architectures in Aeronautics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), focusing on aircraft thermal and energy systems. In the EU project TheMa4HERA, he works on the development of digital twins for the virtual verification and validation of novel aircraft thermal management systems using FMUs, with a focus on control development.
He holds an Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Lyon as well as a Master’s degree in control theory, where he specialized in modeling and simulation and control theory.
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A digital twin of the overall aircraft Environmental Control System is being developed as part of TheMa4HERA, a large European Research Initiative. It shall support verification and validation by virtually demonstrating the behavior of the complete system in various conditions. To this end, also a prototypical control scheme needs to be developed so that a dynamic simulation through complete flight missions is enabled. The prototypical control scheme is tuned using a simplified version of the Digital Twin which focuses on robustness and fast computation time, while making it robust enough to be stable when used with the high-fidelity Digital Twin. An already stable and working controller for simulating the detailed Digital Twin, provides a significant gain of time, allowing for immediate preliminary results on both steady-state and transient system behaviors. This paper describes the base model of the Digital Twin and the methodology used to design the prototypical control architecture.