Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 90 Issue 8

Aero-heating modelling on the ablative noses during flight trajectory

Mohamad Mehdi Doustdar, Morteza Mardani, Farhad Ghadak

The purpose of this paper is to present the more accurate estimation of aero-heating for the ablative 3-D noses by using the viscous shock layers and similarity of viscous…

The effect of aerofoil camber on cycloidal propellers

Hailang Zhang, Yu Hu, Gengqi Wang

This paper aims to investigate the impact of aerofoil camber on the performance of micro-air-vehicle-scale cycloidal propellers.

Impact analysis and adaptive sliding mode control for cislunar payload transportation using spinning tether system

Hongshi Lu, Li Aijun, Wang Changqing, Zabolotnov Michaelovitch Yuriy

This paper aims to present the impact analysis of payload rendezvous with tethered satellite system and the design of an adaptive sliding mode controller which can deal with mass…

RBF network based adaptive sliding mode control for solar sails

Xiaobin Lian, Jiafu Liu, Chuang Wang, Tiger Yuan, Naigang Cui

The purpose of this paper is to resolve complex nonlinear dynamical problems of the pitching axis of solar sail in body coordinate system compared with inertial coordinate system…

Flight path optimization with application to in-flight replanning to changing destinations

Luitpold Babel

The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach for finding a minimum-length trajectory for an autonomous unmanned air vehicle or a long-range missile from a release point…

Neural network based redesign of morphing UAV for simultaneous improvement of roll stability and maximum lift/drag ratio

Tugrul Oktay, Seda Arik, Ilke Turkmen, Metin Uzun, Harun Celik

The aim of this paper is to redesign of morphing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using neural network for simultaneous improvement of roll stability coefficient and maximum…

Aircraft positioning using SPP method in GPS system

Kamil Krasuski

The purpose of this paper is based on implementation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technique in civil aviation for recovery of aircraft position using Single Point…

Innovative exploration of safe in-flightcrew escape options

Sreedhar Karunakaran

The purpose of this paper is to explore various in-flight crew escape options of a prototype transport aircraft and finalize the option offering safest crew egress for different…

Modeling regional routes with Greek airlines for flight operations to AOE airport

Ayse Kucuk Yilmaz, Konstantinos N. Malagas, Nikitas Nikitakos, Hilal Tuğçe Bal

Research carried out within the scope of the present new emerging optimum market to Greek regional airlines. This study (based on interconnected flight network) aims to provide an…

Uncertain evaluation of crashworthiness of thin-walled composite structures

Jiang Xie, Haolei Mou, Xuan Su, Zhenyu Feng

This paper aims to present an evaluation method for energy-absorption characteristics of thin-walled composite structures with random uncertain parameters.

Distributed measurement system based on CAN data bus

Piotr Grzybowski, Maciej Klimczuk, Pawel Rzucidlo

This paper aims to describe the idea behind and design of a miniaturized distributed measurement system based on a controller area network (CAN) data bus.

Constant-gain EKF algorithm for satellite attitude determination systems

Song Hua, Huiyin Huang, Fangfang Yin, Chunling Wei

This paper aims to propose a constant-gain Kalman Filter algorithm based on the projection method and constant dimension projection, which ensures that the dimension of the…

Composite stiffened panel sizing for conceptual tail design

Alejandro Sanchez-Carmona, Cristina Cuerno-Rejado

A conceptual design method for composite material stiffened panels used in aircraft tail structures and unmanned aircraft has been developed to bear compression and shear loads.

Principle and experimental research on vibration reduction of flexible solar array using reaction flywheel

Bifa Chen, Meiyan Zhang, Guo-an Tang

The rest-to-rest movements for a spacecraft, such as attitude adjustment and orbital manoeuver, are likely to excite residual vibration of flexible appendages, which may affect…

Synthesis and optimization of modular deployable truss antenna reflector

Fei Hu, Yanping Song, Yundou Xu, Huaizhou Wen

This paper aims to synthesize a modular deployable truss antenna with the lower degree of freedom (DOF) and larger folding ratio. Because of the advantages of this kind of new…

Proof-of-concept analysis of a supplemental solar power system for aircraft

Susan Liscouet-Hanke, Arash Shafiei, Luiz Lopes, Sheldon Williamson

This paper aims to analyze the viability of a solar power system as a supplemental power source for commercial and business aircraft.