Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 95 Issue 5

Impact of ultrasonic vibration power and tool pin profile on mechanical and microstructural behaviour of friction stir welded dissimilar aluminium alloy joints

Yuvaraj K.P., Joshua Gnana Sekaran J., Shanmugam A.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of ultrasonic vibration (UV) and tool pin profile on mechanical properties and microstructural behaviour of AA7075-T651 and…

Distributed UAV swarm control framework with limited interaction for obstacle avoidance

Baitao Zhu, Yimin Deng

The purpose of this paper is to propose a distributed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm control method to ensure safety and obstacle avoidance during swarm flight and realize…

Extended search pigeon-inspired optimized MPPT controller for solar quadcopter

Zhiqiang Zheng, Haibin Duan, Yimin Deng

The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel maximum power point track (MPPT) controller for a type of solar quad-copter to solve the problem of tracking the maximum power…

Parameter optimization of FSW aviation-grade AA8090 using Taguchi grey relational analysis

Raghuraj Panwar, Pankaj Chandna

This paper aims to accomplish friction stir welding (FSW) of Al–Li alloy AA8090 to determine optimal settings of the process parameters for higher tensile strength and higher…

Bio-inspired optimization of leading edge slat

Mohamed Arif Raj Mohamed, Ketu Satish Kumar Reddy, Somaraju Sai Sri Vishnu

The high lift devices are effective at high angle of attack to increase the coefficient of lift by increasing the camber. But it affects the low angle of attack aerodynamic…

Improvement of UAV: design and implementation on launchability

Etka Gökbel, Aydin Güllü, Sezgin Ersoy

This study aims to a launchable design has been made to prevent wasted time in time-critical areas, and increase the efficiency of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In this way…

Evaluation of time-series Sentinel-2 images for early estimation of rice yields in south-west of Iran

Payam Najafi, Akram Eftekhari, Alireza Sharifi

In the past three decades, remote sensing-based models for estimating crop yield have addressed critical problems of general food security, as the unavailability of grains such as…

Direct data–driven strategy for closed-loop aircraft flutter test

Wang Jianhong, Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza

This new paper aims to extend the authors’ previous contributions about open-loop aircraft flutter test to closed-loop aircraft flutter test by virtue of the proposed direct…

An online reliable local trajectory planner for quadrotors

Chunming Tong, Zhenbao Liu, Wen Zhao, Baodong Wang, Yao Cheng, Jingyan Wang

This paper aims to propose an online local trajectory planner for safe and fast trajectory generation that combines the jerk-limited trajectory (JLT) generation algorithm and the…

Target tracking and enclosing via UAV/UGV cooperation using energy estimation pigeon-inspired optimization and switchable topology

Yankai Shen, Chen Wei

The research of unmanned air/ground vehicle (UAV/UGV) cooperation has attracted much attention due to its potential applications in disaster rescue and target surveillance. This…

A ROS-based hybrid algorithm for the UAV path planning problem

Demet Canpolat Tosun, Yasemin Işık

It is possible with classical path planning algorithms to plan a path in a static environment if the instant position of the vehicle is known and the target and obstacle positions…

Conceptual design modeling by the novel aircraft conceptual design and analysis system (ACDAS)

Nesij Ünal, Yahya Öz, Tugrul Oktay

Throughout an aircraft development process, the conceptual design phase is an extremely important milestone; hence, the quality and success of this step directly affect the…

Feasibility study of topology optimization of the control system frame for the missile with canard configuration

Artur Abratanski, Rafał Grzejda, Rafał Perz

The purpose of this paper is to describe the new method for optimizing the topology of the control system frame for a canard missile to create its efficient model. Determining the…

Regularization regression methods for aerodynamic parameter estimation from flight data

Ajit Kumar, A.K. Ghosh

The purpose of this study is to estimate aerodynamic parameters using regularized regression-based methods.

Solar energy for the airport ground support equipment – a quantitative study

Melih Yıldız, Savaş Mutlu, Andras Nagy, Utku Kale

This paper aims to evaluate the hypothetical situation in a resembling airport to Esenboga Airport and analyzes the condition of all ground support equipment (GSE) equipment to be…

A new proposal for the prediction of an aircraft engine fuel consumption: a novel CNN-BiLSTM deep neural network model

Sedat Metlek

The purpose of this study is to develop and test a new deep learning model to predict aircraft fuel consumption. For this purpose, real data obtained from different landings and…