A study of morphing aircraft on morphing rules along trajectory

Innovative Materials for Aircraft Morphing

ABSTRACT Reported herein is an overview of the research being conducted within the Materials Division at NASA Langley Research Center on the development of smart material technologies for advanced airframe systems. The research is a part of the Aircraft Morphing Program which is a new six-year research program to develop smart components for self-adaptive airframe systems. The fundamental areas...

Dynamics and Control of Morphing Aircraft

The following work is directed towards an evaluation of aircraft that undergo structural shape change for the purpose of optimized flight and maneuvering control authority. Dy-namical equations are derived for a morphing aircraft based on two primary representations; a general non-rigid model and a multi-rigid-body. A simplified model is then proposed by considering the altering structural port...

Automated Trajectory Morphing For Marionettes Using Trajectory Optimization

We present a method to automatically morph trajectories from one mechanical system into trajectories of another system with potentially very different dynamics. Our method relies on a mapping from the source system’s configuration space to that of the target system to create a desired trajectory for the target system. A projection operatorbased trajectory optimization finds a dynamically-admiss...

Design, Control, and Experimental Modeling of a Morphing Aircraft Configuration

This work describes the design and construction of a fully adaptive aircraft configuration used as an experimental testbed for aerodynamic modeling and flight control. The adaptive model is designed to achieve large scale shape changes in order to investigate morphing for multi-mission UAVs. There are five independent planform changes along with independent twist control for each wing. Wind tun...

Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Control of a Miniature Morphing Aircraft