Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations
| Autor: | Raunak Raj, Erdal Kayacan, Yunus Govdeli, Basman Elhadidi, Sheikh Moheed Bin Muzaffar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
Lift-to-drag ratio 0209 industrial biotechnology Unsteady aerodynamics Transition flight control Rotor (electric) Aerospace Engineering PID controller 02 engineering and technology Aerodynamics Flight control surfaces Unmanned aerial vehicle 01 natural sciences Quadplane 010305 fluids & plasmas law.invention Vortex Tilt-rotor Controllability Nonlinear system Pusher 020901 industrial engineering & automation Control theory law 0103 physical sciences |
| Zdroj: | Govdeli, Y, Moheed Bin Muzaffar, S, Raj, R, Elhadidi, B & Kayacan, E 2019, ' Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations ', Aerospace Science and Technology, vol. 94, 105421 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2019.105421 |
| Popis: | A nonlinear unsteady aerodynamics model is coupled with a three degree of freedom quadplane to control the forward and backward transition between hover and steady level flight. The unsteady lift and drag forces are modeled using a lumped vortex model for flat plates. Two variants for the quadplane are considered: (i) a pusher and (ii) a tilt-rotor configuration in the absence of control surfaces to assess the controllability for altitude, attitude and forward speed. Conventional PID control is applied to generate the control inputs. The simulation results conclude that the pusher quadplane configuration is effortless to control as all the selected states are controllable, whereas for the tilt-rotor configuration, even though the vehicle is stable, altitude control is significantly more challenging due to one less control input when compared to the pusher configuration. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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