Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 87 Issue 1

Coupling equivalent plate and beam models at conceptual design level

Luca Riccobene, Sergio Ricci

The purpose of this paper is to present a formulation that couples equivalent plate and beam models for aircraft structures analysis, suitable in conceptual design in which fast…

Advisory system development for reliable FEM modelling in aerospace

Laszlo Hetey, James Campbell, Rade Vignjevic

This paper aims to describe the development of an advisory system that helps building sound finite element (FE) models from computer-aided design data, with actual uncertainty…

Aerodynamic blade design with multi-objective optimization for a tiltrotor aircraft

Giovanni Droandi, Giuseppe Gibertini

The purpose of this paper is to present the aerodynamic blade design of a tiltwing aircraft with a multi-objective optimization procedure. The aerodynamic design of tiltrotor…

Aerodynamic characteristics of a flexible membrane micro air vehicle

Adnan Maqsood, Tiauw Hiong Go

The purpose of this paper is to describe the research performed on flexible-wing micro air vehicle (MAV). Typical attributes associated with the aerodynamics of MAVs are low…

Analysis of flight dynamics for large-scale morphing aircraft

Rongqi Shi, Weiyu Wan

This paper aims to clarify the flight dynamics characteristics and improve the flight performance for large-scale morphing aircrafts. With specific focus on the effects of…

Symbolic control approach to aircraft taking off in wind shear

Qinan Luo, Haibin Duan

– The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach for aircraft taking off control in wind shear, which is a challenging issue for an aircraft.

Telemetry data processing flow model: a case study

Guohua Wang, Qiang Li, Jinglin Sun, Xiaofeng Meng

The purpose of this paper is to develop the model of telemetry data processing flow (TDPF) for TDPF development and the TDPF run-time infrastructure to improve the spacecraft…

Control system design of a quad-rotor with collision detection

Agus Budiyono, Gigun Lee, Gyou Beom Kim, Jungkeun Park, Taesam Kang, Kwang Joon Yoon

– The purpose of this paper was to present the process of building hardware and software for a collision avoidance system of a quadrotor capable of an indoor autonomous flight.

Optimal trajectory analysis of hypersonic boost-glide waverider with heat load constraint

S. Tauqeer ul Islam Rizvi, He Linshu, Xu Dajun

The purpose of the paper is to study the variation of optimal burnout angle at the end of the ascent phase and the optimal control deflection during the glide phase, that would…

A measurement of human body rotation during parabolic flight experiment

Tao Jin, Hongzhi Jia, Wenmei Hou, Yusaku Fujii

– This paper aims to propose a method for measuring the rotation of moving body during parabolic flight using camera.

Robust control of a yaw-pitch gimballed seeker

S.T. Zhan, W.X, Yan, Z. Fu, Gen Pan, Y.Z. Zhao

– This paper aims to present a robust design approach to realize disturbance attenuation for a yaw – pitch gimballed system subject to actuator saturation and disturbances.

Conceptual design and performance simulation of a space hybrid motor

Ehsan A. Tahmasebi, Hasan Karimi M.

– This study aims to present a method for conceptual design and simulation of hybrid propellant motors.

Spacecraft OMM reduction using stable frozen orbit conditions

Ahmad Soleymani, Alireza Toloei

– The purpose of this research was to analyze application effects of the stable frozen orbit conditions in the spacecraft Orbital Maintenance Maneuver (OMM) reduction.

Editorial

Askin T. Isikveren