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Aircraft Autopilot Design Using Asymmetric Variable-Span Wing Morphing

Jihoon Lee, Seong-hun Kim, Seungyun Jung, Hanna Lee, Youdan Kim

32nd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS), Shanghai, China, Sep. 2021 · 1 citations

Figure 2 – Aerodynamic coefficient increments in case of a loss of outboard (approximately 25% semi-span) left wing tip
Figure 2 – Aerodynamic coefficient increments in case of a loss of outboard (approximately 25% semi-span) left wing tip
Figure 3 – Roll rate command tracking results.
Figure 3 – Roll rate command tracking results.

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In this study, a flight control system is designed for an asymmetric variable-span morphing aircraft. The generic transport model is used to obtain a morphing aircraft model by incorporating the damage information. The integrated flight control system is designed based on nonlinear dynamic inversion and time-scale separation. It is shown that asymmetric span morphing can be used for roll control, while symmetric morphing can be used to either optimize flight performance or directly control aerodynamic forces. Numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

ICAS Archivehttps://icas.org/ICAS_ARCHIVE/ICAS2020/data/papers/ICAS2020_0959_paper.pdfBibTeX@inproceedings{Lee2021, title = {Aircraft Autopilot Design Using Asymmetric Variable-Span Wing Morphing}, author = {Jihoon Lee and Seong-hun Kim and Seungyun Jung and Hanna Lee and Youdan Kim}, year = {2021}, booktitle = {32nd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS), Shanghai, China, Sep. 2021}, }

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