Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 89 Issue 1
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Three-axes predictive control of autopilot for missile
Celâl Ada, Ayhan KuralThe purpose of this paper is to present the autopilot design for the missile under various disturbances.
Satellite formation keeping using differential lift and drag under J2 perturbation
Xiaowei Shao, Mingxuan Song, Jihe Wang, Dexin Zhang, Junli ChenThe purpose of this paper is to present a method to achieve small satellite formation keeping operations by using the differential lift and drag to control the drift caused by J2…
Modified fuel-balanced formation keeping strategy based on actively rotating satellites in formation
Xiaowei Shao, Jihe Wang, Dexin Zhang, Junli ChenThe purpose of this paper is to propose a modified fuel-balanced formation keeping strategy based on actively rotating satellites in the formation in the J2 perturbed environment.
Aeroelastic behaviour of UAV wings due to morphing
Levent Ünlüsoy, Yavuz YamanThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of morphing on the aeroelastic behaviour of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wings to make an emphasis on the required aeroelastic…
Nonlinear aerodynamics of an unmanned aircraft in wind shear
Shawn S. Keshmiri, Edward Lan, Richard HaleThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate the accuracy of linear and quasi-steady aerodynamic models of aircraft aerodynamic models when a small unmanned aerial system flies in the…
Design of conventional and neural network based controllers for a single-shaft gas turbine
Hamid Asgari, Mohsen Fathi Jegarkandi, XiaoQi Chen, Raazesh SainudiinThe purpose of this paper is to develop and compare conventional and neural network-based controllers for gas turbines.
Establishment of an initial maintenance program for UAVs based on reliability principles
Paula Gonçalves, José Sobral, Luis FerreiraThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate how to develop a methodology to set up an initial maintenance program for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) following the well-known…
Heuristic optimization of Bezier curves based trajectories for unconventional airships docking
Alessandro Ceruti, Pier MarzoccaThis paper aims to describe a methodology to optimize the trajectory of unconventional airship performing a high-altitude docking manoeuvre.
Modelling and robust attitude trajectory tracking control of 3-DOF four rotor hover vehicle
Rooh ul Amin, Aijun LiThe purpose of this paper is to present μ-synthesis-based robust attitude trajectory tracking control of three degree-of-freedom four rotor hover vehicle.
Wind tunnel testing of hybrid buoyant aerial vehicle
Anwar ul-Haque, Waqar Asrar, Ashraf Ali Omar, Erwin Sulaeman, JS Mohamed AliRealistic data bank of aerodynamic and stability derivatives is still missing for hybrid buoyant aerial vehicles. Such vehicles take-off and land similar to an aircraft with their…
Experimental experience of cold starting a spark ignition UAV engine using low volatility fuel
Peter HooperThe purpose of this paper is to present results of practical experience of cold starting a gasoline engine on low volatility fuel suitable for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV…
Cooperative target localization using multiple UAVs with out-of-sequence measurements
Xiaogang Wang, Wutao Qin, Yuliang Bai, Naigang CuiThe time delay would occurs when the measurements of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are transmitted to the date processing center during cooperative target localization…
Aerodynamic performance improvement of WIG aircraft
Mojtaba Tahani, Mehran Masdari, Ali BargestanThis paper aims to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics as well as static stability of wing-in-ground effect aircraft. The effect of geometrical characteristics, namely…
Guidance and control algorithms for mini UAV autopilots
Elisa Capello, Giorgio Guglieri, Gianluca RistortoThe aim of this paper is the implementation and validation of control and guidance algorithms for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) autopilots.
Automatic target recognition system for unmanned aerial vehicle via backpropagation artificial neural network
Jiaqi Jia, Haibin DuanThe purpose of this paper is to propose a novel target automatic recognition method for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which is based on backpropagation – artificial neural…
Twin-rotor hover performance examination using overlap tests
Farid ShahmiriThe aim of this paper was to experimentally examine twin-rotor hover performance for different rotor overlap ratios at practical rotor loading.
Immunity-based accommodation of aircraft subsystem failures
Adil Togayev, Mario Perhinschi, Hever Moncayo, Dia Al Azzawi, Andres PerezThis paper aims to describe the design, development and flight-simulation testing of an artificial immune-system-based approach for accommodation of different aircraft sub-system…
Satellite optical misalignment test procedure subject to theodolites
Seyed Hossein MortazaviThe purpose of this study is to address the concept and the step-by-step procedure of a high-precision optical alignment test for spacecrafts using digital theodolites. The…
Improved efficiency of an unmanned air vehicle IC engine using computational modelling and experimental verification
Peter Hooper, Tarik Al-ShemmeriThis paper aims to present experimental results of gasoline-fuelled engine operation of a crankcase-scavenged two-stroke cycle engine used for unmanned air vehicle (UAV)/unmanned…
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