Equivalent dynamic modeling of flexible morphing aircraft

Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Control of a Miniature Morphing Aircraft

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...

Modeling for Control of Very Flexible Aircraft

The first investigations into the dynamics of a highly flexible aircraft came from the Daedalus Project, initiated in 1984. 3 The goal of this project was to push the limits of human powered flight while promoting engineering, science and education. Prior to the Daedalus Project the longest distance traveled by a human powered plane was 23 miles, a record set in 1979 with a flight across the En...

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...