Overview of research activities during the secondment at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, October 2022 until July 2023

Kurzfassung

This report is dedicated to research activities conducted during the secondment at the US-Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs from end of October 2022 until end of July 2024. The content includes a brief description of the three published contributions to the AIAA Aviation Forum in San Diego, which took place in summer 2023. Also listed are the additional research that have arisen outside the common activities with the USAFA, namely bio-inspired Swarm Intelligence optimisation strategies and the treatment and implementation of the geometrically exact beam. Finally, there is a summary about the topics and an evaluation of the stay at the USAFA.