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A Fuzzy Technique for Performing Lateral-Axis Formation Flight Navigation Using Wingtip Vortices
Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-05-30
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781720359395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Close formation flight involving aerodynamic coupling through wingtip vortices shows significant promise to improve the efficiency of cooperative aircraft operations. Impediments to the application of this technology include internship communication required to establish precise relative positioning. This report proposes a method for estimating the lateral relative position between two aircraft in close formation flight through real-time estimates of the aerodynamic effects imparted by the leading airplane on the trailing airplane. A fuzzy algorithm is developed to map combinations of vortex-induced drag and roll effects to relative lateral spacing. The algorithm is refined using self-tuning techniques to provide lateral relative position estimates accurate to 14 in., well within the requirement to maintain significant levels of drag reduction. The fuzzy navigation algorithm is integrated with a leader-follower formation flight autopilot in a two-ship F/A-18 simulation with no intership communication modeled. It is shown that in the absence of measurements from the leading airplane the algorithm provides sufficient estimation of lateral formation spacing for the autopilot to maintain stable formation flight within the vortex. Formation autopilot trim commands are used to estimate vortex effects for the algorithm. The fuzzy algorithm is shown to operate satisfactorily with anticipated levels of input uncertainties.Hanson, Curtis E.Armstrong Flight Research CenterFORMATION FLYING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; WING TIP VORTICES; LATERAL CONTROL; F-18 AIRCRAFT; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; AUTOMATIC PILOTS; ROLL; DRAG REDUCTION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; REAL TIME OPERATION; FLIGHT SIMULATION; ALGORITHMS
International Aerospace Abstracts
Aeronautical Engineering
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 712
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A selection of annotated references to unclassified reports and journal articles that were introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system and announced in Scientific and technical aerospace reports (STAR) and International aerospace abstracts (IAA)
Aeronautical Engineering: A Cumulative Index to a Continuing Bibliography (supplement 287)
Commercial Aviation Safety, Sixth Edition
Author: Stephen K. Cusick
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2017-05-12
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 125964183X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Up-To-Date Coverage of Every Aspect of Commercial Aviation Safety Completely revised edition to fully align with current U.S. and international regulations, this hands-on resource clearly explains the principles and practices of commercial aviation safety—from accident investigations to Safety Management Systems. Commercial Aviation Safety, Sixth Edition, delivers authoritative information on today's risk management on the ground and in the air. The book offers the latest procedures, flight technologies, and accident statistics. You will learn about new and evolving challenges, such as lasers, drones (unmanned aerial vehicles), cyberattacks, aircraft icing, and software bugs. Chapter outlines, review questions, and real-world incident examples are featured throughout. Coverage includes: • ICAO, FAA, EPA, TSA, and OSHA regulations • NTSB and ICAO accident investigation processes • Recording and reporting of safety data • U.S. and international aviation accident statistics • Accident causation models • The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) • Crew Resource Management (CRM) and Threat and Error Management (TEM) • Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) and Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) • Aircraft and air traffic control technologies and safety systems • Airport safety, including runway incursions • Aviation security, including the threats of intentional harm and terrorism • International and U.S. Aviation Safety Management Systems
Fundamentals of Airplane Flight Mechanics
Author: David G. Hull
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-01-20
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 3540465731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Flight mechanics is the application of Newton's laws to the study of vehicle trajectories (performance), stability, and aerodynamic control. This volume details the derivation of analytical solutions of airplane flight mechanics problems associated with flight in a vertical plane. It covers trajectory analysis, stability, and control. In addition, the volume presents algorithms for calculating lift, drag, pitching moment, and stability derivatives. Throughout, a subsonic business jet is used as an example for the calculations presented in the book.
Wingless Flight
Author: R. Dale Reed
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0813161606
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Most lifting bodies, or "flying bathtubs" as they were called, were so ugly only an engineer could love them, and yet, what an elegant way to keep wings from burning off in supersonic flight between earth and orbit. Working in their spare time (because they couldn't initially get official permission), Dale Reed and his team of engineers demonstrated the potential of the design that led to the Space Shuttle. Wingless Flight takes us behind the scenes with just the right blend of technical information and fascinating detail (the crash of M2-F2 found new life as the opening credit for TV's "The Six Million Dollar Man"). The flying bathtub, itself, is finding new life as the proposed escape-pod for the Space Station.
Spacecraft Formation Flying
Author: Kyle Alfriend
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2009-11-16
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0080559654
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Space agencies are now realizing that much of what has previously been achieved using hugely complex and costly single platform projects—large unmanned and manned satellites (including the present International Space Station)—can be replaced by a number of smaller satellites networked together. The key challenge of this approach, namely ensuring the proper formation flying of multiple craft, is the topic of this second volume in Elsevier’s Astrodynamics Series, Spacecraft Formation Flying: Dynamics, control and navigation. In this unique text, authors Alfriend et al. provide a coherent discussion of spacecraft relative motion, both in the unperturbed and perturbed settings, explain the main control approaches for regulating relative satellite dynamics, using both impulsive and continuous maneuvers, and present the main constituents required for relative navigation. The early chapters provide a foundation upon which later discussions are built, making this a complete, standalone offering. Intended for graduate students, professors and academic researchers in the fields of aerospace and mechanical engineering, mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics, Spacecraft Formation Flying is a technical yet accessible, forward-thinking guide to this critical area of astrodynamics. The first book dedicated to spacecraft formation flying, written by leading researchers and professors in the field Develops the theory from an astrodynamical viewpoint, emphasizing modeling, control and navigation of formation flying satellites on Earth orbits Examples used to illustrate the main developments, with a sample simulation of a formation flying mission included to illustrate high fidelity modeling, control and relative navigation
Glider Flying Handbook
Author: Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2007-07
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1602390614
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For both certified glider pilots and students attempting certification in the glider category, this is an unparalleled...
