Colin Bosch, M.Sc.

Fields of research and interests

• Aviation safety
• Safety and certification of hydrogen and hybrid propulsion systems
• Aviation development and safety assessment processes (SAE ARP 4754/4761)
• Systems engineering
• Urban Air Mobility
• UAV
• Electromechanical actuators (EMAs)

Assistant for the following lectures

• Safety and Certification of Aircraft
• IFR practical course 'Helicopter Flight'

Presentations

• Hydrogen Safety for VTOL – Challenges everywhere?, Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Innovation Session, European Rotors, Cologne, 2021 [Recording...]
• TUM-HT Overview and Hybrid Propulsion Safety, Aero Friedrichshafen, 2023

Publications

• C. Bosch, R. Pachchhao, and I. Yavrucuk, “Scenario-based Safety Assessment of Thermal Runaway in eVTOL Battery Applications,” 50th European Rotorcraft Forum, Marseille, France, 2024.
• C. Bosch, L. Bertsch, and I. Yavrucuk, “Towards A Regulation Based Functional Hazard Assessment for Safety & Certification Requirements of Hydrogen-Hybrid eVTOLs,” The Vertical Flight Society's 79th Annual Forum & Technology Display (Forum 79), West Palm Beach, USA, 2023. [mehr...]
• C. Bosch, M. Hajek, and M. A. Ismail, “Preliminary Safety Assessment for Electro-mechanical Actuation Architectures for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” in 2021 5th International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SysTol), Saint-Raphael, France, 2021, pp. 133–138. [mehr...]
• M. A. A. Ismail, S. Wiedemann, C. Bosch, and C. Stuckmann, “Design and Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Electro-Mechanical Actuators for Flight Controls of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” Actuators, vol. 10, no. 8, p. 175, 2021, doi: 10.3390/act10080175. [mehr...]
• C. Bosch, M. A. A. Ismail, S. Wiedemann, and M. Hajek, “Towards Certifiable Fault-Tolerant Actuation Architectures for UAVs,” in Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Advances in Condition Monitoring and Structural Health Monitoring, L. Gelman, N. Mar-tin, A. A. Malcolm, and C. K. Liew, Eds., Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021, pp. 355–364. [mehr...
• M. A. A. Ismail, C. Bosch, S. Wiedemann, and A. Bierig, “Fault-Tolerant Actuation Architectures for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” in Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Advances in Condition Monitoring and Structural Health Monitoring, L. Gelman, N. Martin, A. A. Malcolm, and C. K. Liew, Eds., Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021, pp. 345–354.[mehr...]

Supervised Student Theses

• R. Pachchhao, "Optimizing eVTOL Battery Architecture for Safety Improvement by Minimizing the Out-of-Control Failure Probability of the Batteries", Semester Thesis, Garching, 2024
• D. Häringer, "Safety assessment of the battery system of hydrogen hybrid eVTOLs and evaluation of different safety improvement approaches", Semester Thesis, Garching, 2023
• L. Bertsch, "Evaluation and Safety Assessment of Safety Improvement Features for the Power System Design of Fuel Cell and Battery Hybrid eVTOLs", Master Thesis, Garching, 2022
• L. Daxer, "Automatisierte Vorentwurfsanalysen zur möglichen Reduktion der Verwundbarkeit militarisierter ziviler Hubschrauber unter Anwendung einer graphenbasierten Entwurfssprache, gekoppelt mit einem Verwundbarkeitsmodell", Master Thesis, Garching, 2021
• F. Feigl, "Safety Assessment and Transition Maneuver Design of a Tiltwing VTOL Configuration", Master Thesis, Garching, 2021
• A. Bento, "Automated Testing to Detect Dormant Avionics Failures", Master Thesis, Garching, 2021
• C. Zimmermann, "Sicherheitskritische Auslegung eines elektromechanischen Aktuators für den Einsatz in unbemannten Luftfahrzeugen", Master Thesis, Garching, 2020