Early stage design provides the greatest opportunities to explore design alternatives and perform trade studies before costly design decisions are made. The goal of this research is to develop a simulation-based framework that enables architectural analysis of complex systems during the conceptual design phase. Using this framework, design teams can systematically explore architectural design d...

This paper presents a single-stage ZVT full-bridge AC/DC converter for aerospace applications. The detailed operating principle and design consideration of this soft-switched converter are analyzed and described. The proposed circuit topology and control scheme are proposed to exhibit optimum performances (i.e. high power factor, high efficiency, ring-free and low EMI features). A laboratory pr...

The aim of this research is the development of an innovative approach to support company upgrades, reorganization and new facility establishment. This approach is focused on combining layout engineering with the use of simulation and optimization; this combination is very important because allows to reorganize the whole layout and production processes and flows and to measure the results in the...

FLITE3D is a multigrid Euler solver. It is used extensively by British Aerospace in aircraft design and simulation. This paper presents experiences in parallelizing this industrial code. Owing to the employment of an agglomeration-based multigrid technique, the communication overhead on the coarser meshes could readily erode any gain from the use of parallel computers. The parallelization of th...

This paper describes an automatic method for generating analysis models to be meshed with finite elements of more than one dimension, known as mixed dimensional models. Mixed dimensional models offer much reduced analysis times, while not compromising simulation accuracy to the same extent as fully dimensionally reduced models composed of 2D elements stiffened using beam elements, which are cur...

control of robotic systems is an interesting subject due to their wide spectrum applications in medicine, aerospace and other industries. this paper proposes a novel continuous control mechanism for tracking problem of a 5-dof upper-limb exoskeleton robot. the proposed method is a combination of a recently developed robust integral of the sign of the error (rise) feedback and neural network (nn...

As many systems depend on electronics, concern for fault tolerance is growing rapidly. For example, a car with its steering controlled by electronics and no mechanical linkage from steering wheel to front tires (steer-by-wire) should be fault tolerant because a failure can come without any warning and its effect is devastating. In order to make system fault tolerant, there has been a body of re...

In 2002 the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) performed a measurement campaign of the land mobile multipath channel in and around the city of Munich. From this data a channel model was derived that is synthesising the measured channel impulse response. It allows the realistic simulation of the multipath channel by approximating every single reflection. This model includes time variant reflectors ap...

The interval type-2 fuzzy, combined with sliding mode control, is proposed in this paper to design a novel nonlinear robust controller for a hypersonic aircraft. In this method, sliding mode reaching law is designed to keep the system stable. In order to overcome the uncertain parameters and external disturbances which exist in aerospace, we utilize an interval type-2 fuzzy approach represented...

An overview of the new Modelica Flight Dynamics Library of the German Aerospace Center DLR is given. This library is intended for construction of multi-disciplinary flight dynamics models of rigid and flexible flight vehicles. The environment models provide the functionality to cover on-ground operations up to flight at high speeds and high altitudes. The resulting models may be used in various...