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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"flight controls"”.
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Research on the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Design
… Gyro-scopic Effect) and four Rudder-vators Flight Controls (Design for Pitch and Yaw Stability and control). The main aim of the study is to understand the dynamics and control of the vehicle when transiting from vertical take-off to horizontal cruising mode. Both computational results and …
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Evaluating Runtime Monitoring for Reinforcement Learning-Based Flight Control
<p>Ensuring safety in adaptive flight controls systems is an ongoing challenge in aviation, especially as advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) trend upwards. Reinforcement learning is becoming more common in aerospace applications due to the ability to improve these …
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Modeling the Impact of Helicopter Vibrations on the Musculoskeletal Health of US Army Blackhawk Helicopter Pilots
… are applied while positioned to manipulate the flight controls. A musculoskeletal model was developed to represent the aviator in the seated posture required to effectively manipulate the flight controls. To develop the model, the team recorded motion capture data with a pilot in a pilot test …
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More Electric Systems Architecture Effect on Business Jet Performance
… replaces the hydraulic actuators for the flight controls with electro-hydrostatic and electro-mechanical actuators; the engine off-takes (bleed) for cabin pressurization and wing de-icing with electrically driven compressors and electrical heating mats, respectively.</p> <p>It is ensured …
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Design, analysis and prototyping of a high speed surface mounted permanent magnet machine
… ranging from basic household power tools to the flight controls for aircrafts in the aerospace sector. This has also seen advancements in the power electronics and controls for these machines to deal with the large operating frequencies. The increase in demand for high speed machines has been …
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A thesis on the application of neural network computing to the constrained flight control allocation problem
… a neural network to solve the constrained flight control allocation problem is investigated for the purposes of developing guidelines for the selection of a neural network structure as a function of the control allocation problem parameters. The control allocation problem of finding the …
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Control Law Design and Validation for a Helicopter In-Flight Simulator
In-flight simulation allows one aircraft to simulate the dynamic response of another aircraft. A control system designed to give RASCAL, a JUH-60A Black Hawk helicopter based at Moffett Field, CA, in-flight simulation capabilities has been designed, optimized and validated in this research. A …
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Fighter Aircraft Synthesis/Design Optimization
… design is able to effectively adapt to different flight conditions, cruising at subsonic speeds much more efficiently than the fixed-wing AAF and, thus yielding significant fuel savings. Also presented in this thesis are partially optimized results of the application of a decomposition strategy …
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Prediction of Handling Qualities Deficiencies for Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft
… development feature some sort of fly-by-wire flight control system. Regulatory agencies already have decades of experience with certifying fly-by-wire airplanes. Fly-by-wire rotorcraft have proven to be significantly more difficult to certify and several flight test accidents have occurred as …