The SAIFE Project: Demonstration of a Model-Free Synthetic Sensor for Flow Angle Estimation

In this work, the SAIFE project is presented highlighting its main innovative aspects and the verification strategy up to TRL 6. In fact, the SAIFE project is born to demonstrate in operative environment a synthetic solution to estimate the aircraft flow angles, angle-of-attack and angle-of-sideslip. The flow angle synthetic solution is based on a model-free scheme named ASSE and it is briefly described. The SAIFE solution is suitable for modern aircraft or it can be adopted on board drones and urban mobility air vehicles. The SAIFE project is introduced and its main advantages with respect to the state-of-the-art are presented. The SAIFE demonstrator is designed and manufactured to be verified first in laboratory and later validated during flight tests.