Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 93 Issue 7

Based on minimum fuel consumption mode integrated optimal control of fixed-wing UAV flight propulsion system

Yong Li, Feifei Han, Xinzhe Zhang, Kai Peng, Li Dang

In this paper, with the goal of reducing the fuel consumption of UAV, the engine performance optimization is studied and on the basis of aircraft/engine integrated control, the…

Observer-based robust actuator fault isolation and identification for microsatellite attitude control systems

Huayi Li, Qingxian Jia, Rui Ma, Xueqin Chen

The purpose of this paper is to accomplish robust actuator fault isolation and identification for microsatellite attitude control systems (ACSs) subject to a series of space…

Robust model reference adaptive backstepping sliding-mode control for quadrotor attitude with disturbance observer

Nigar Ahmed, Mou Chen

The purpose of this research paper is to design a disturbance observer-based control based on the robust model reference adaptive backstepping sliding-mode control for attitude…

Robust fault-tolerant flight path angle control

Dinesh D. Dhadekar, Ajay Misra, S.E. Talole

The purpose of the paper is to design a nonlinear dynamic inversion (NDI) based robust fault-tolerant control (FTC) for aircraft longitudinal dynamics subject to system…

An active force controlled of small CMG-based satellite

Mohd Badrul Salleh, Nurulasikin Mohd Suhadis, Renuganth Varatharajoo

This paper aims to investigate the attitude control pointing improvement for a small satellite with control moment gyroscopes (CMGs) using the active force control (AFC) method.

Numerical investigation of critical lip thickness of subsonic co-flowing jet

Naren Shankar R., Ganesan V.G., Dilip Raja N., Sathish Kumar K., Vijayaraja K.

The effect of increasing lip thickness (LT) and Mach number on subsonic co-flowing Jet (CFJ) decay at subsonic and correctly expanded sonic Mach numbers has been analysed…

Multi-UAV cooperative target tracking via consensus-based guidance vector fields and fuzzy MRAC

Tagir Z. Muslimov, Rustem A. Munasypov

This paper aims to propose a multi-agent approach to adaptive control of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) tracking a moving ground target. The approach implies that the…

Design and topological optimization of rear pressure bulkhead for a typical aircraft

Marshal Thakran, Meenakshi, Jitender Sharma, Charles Gilbert Martin

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the model of a rear pressure bulkhead with different design optimizations to meet the pressurized cabin requirements of an aircraft.

A brain-inspired localization system for the UAV based on navigation cells

Lijun Chao, Zhi Xiong, Jianye Liu, Chuang Yang, Yudi Chen

To solve problems of low intelligence and poor robustness of traditional navigation systems, the purpose of this paper is to propose a brain-inspired localization method of the…

Comparison of different fidelity mass analyses

Jacek Mieloszyk, Andrzej Tarnowski, Tomasz Goetzendorf-Grabowski, Mariusz Kowalski, Bartłomiej Goliszek

Aircraft structure mass estimation is a very important issue in aerospace. Multiple methods of different fidelity are available, which give results with varying accuracy…

Design and simulation in SAR satellites’ task planning system using genetic algorithm with entropy operator

Wan Liu, Zeyu Li, Li Chen, Dexin Zhang, Xiaowei Shao

This paper aims to innovatively propose to improve the efficiency of satellite observation and avoid the waste of satellite resources, a genetic algorithm with entropy operator…

PSO and GA tuned conventional and fractional order PID controllers for quadrotor control

Hasan Saribas, Sinem Kahvecioglu

This study aims to compare the performance of the conventional and fractional order proportional-integral-derivative (PID and FOPID) controllers tuned with a particle swarm…

Energetic, exergetic, exergoeconomic, environmental (4E) and sustainability performances of an unmanned aerial vehicle micro turbojet engine

Ozgur Balli, Alper Dalkıran, Tahir Hikmet Karakoç

This study aims to investigate the aviation, energetic, exergetic, environmental, sustainability and exergoeconomic performances of a micro turbojet engine used in unmanned aerial…