LEMFEV Mars Aircraft
Design. Teach. Test. Fly
Aircraft aerodynamic design • Flight tests
• Machine learning • Open Science
Elena Karpovich — Associate Professor, PhD, Moscow Aviation Institute
Course materials, Python and MATLAB codes, datasets →
Hi!
Here you’ll find everything I create and share: course materials for my students, research papers, code, datasets for machine learning models, and more.
Once a month, we also gather for the Journal Club — a friendly discussion of the latest advances in aircraft engineering.
Whether you’re passionate about theory, hands-on testing, or simply curious to learn something new in aircraft engineering — you are very welcome here.
I’m Elena Karpovich, Ph.D., Associate Professor and researcher at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Welcome to my open workspace!
Latest news
Recent articles
November 9, 2024
The first flight of the autopilot training model
A small plastic version of our Mars UAV's flight model has made its first flight!
Flight model
BW1
The first flight
December 7, 2024
The first accident of the autopilot training model
The model turned over immediately after the gas was applied. An analysis of the logs showed that everything happened in 15 milliseconds.
log analysis
Crash
Autopilot
June 1, 2025
The new version of the autopilot training model is ready for its first flight
A new version of the model for autopilot training is ready. There is still a lot to do.
BW1
Flight model
Autopilot
All articles

Skills and Areas of Interest

I love helping design better aircraft — from aerodynamic shapes and wing sections to propellers and flight trajectory optimization. I use surrogate modeling and machine learning to speed up aircraft design, and I run flight tests on small UAVs.
  • Aircraft aerodynamic design
  • Flight testing (UAV)
  • Surrogate modeling
  • Machine learning
  • Python programming
  • Peer review
  • Wind tunnel design
  • Experimental aerodynamics
Current focus
  • Mars aircraft flight model
  • Wind tunnel for propellers
  • Propeller design
  • Flying testbed
  • Python + surrogate modeling
Join the Journal Club
Once a month, we discuss the latest in aircraft engineering. Everyone is welcome.
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Publications on ResearchGate
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We are open to scientific collaboration, share MATLAB codes, and invite students to participate in educational projects.
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