ABSTRACT: As the representative of manufacturing industry, aircraft assembly lacks of effective method to forecast man-hour. The forecasting accuracy of existing methods is universally pretty low. On the basis of full analysis of aircraft assembly’s feature, this study proposes a forecasting model based on support vector machine (SVM), which is optimized by particle swarm optimization. It can c...

Simulation and the resulting prediction of the dynamic behavior of an aircraft and its landing gear system during ground maneuvers is an essential part in the design process. A realistic estimation of unwanted oscillations, such as gear walk and shimmy, for the landing gear and whole aircraft can be readily obtained with an MBS-model. It is then possible to adjust the model for changes in the s...

+2 (LQG), weighted-+2 and +∞ techniques are used to establish a nominal performance baseline for the vertical acceleration control of a B-52 aircraft model with flexibilities. The aircraft is assumed to be subjected to severe wind gusts causing undesirable vertical motion. The purpose of the controllers is to reduce the transient peak loads on the airplane caused by the gusts. Our designs accou...

Aircraft detection has attracted increasing attention in the field of remote sensing image analysis. Complex background, illumination change and variations of aircraft kind and size in remote sensing images make the task challenging. In our work, we propose an effective aircraft detection framework based on reinforcement learning and a convolutional neural network (CNN) model. Aircraft in remot...

The effects of pre-pressurization on blast-loaded reinforced rectangular aluminum plates were studied experimentally. In this study, small (0.508 x 0.609 x 0.0016 meter) clamped plates with rivet attached reinforcing members were used as a basic model of the fuselage skin of a commercial aircraft. Both un-pressurized and pre-pressurized plates (static pressure of 41.4 kPa (6.0 psi)) were consid...

Future 4D aircraft trajectories demand comprehensive consideration of environmental, economic, and operational constraints, as well as reliable prediction of all aircraft-related processes. Mutual interdependencies between airports result in system-wide, far-reaching effects in the air traffic network (reactionary delays). To comply with airline/airport challenges over the day of operations, a ...

In this paper we present a perception and autonomy package that for the first time allows a full-scale unmanned helicopter (the Boeing Unmanned Little Bird) to automatically fly through unmapped, obstacle-laden terrain, find a landing zone, and perform a safe landing near a casualty, all with no human control or input. The system also demonstrates the ability to avoid obstacles while in low-alt...

Developments in computational hardware and simulation software have come to a point where it is possible to use whole mission simulation in a framework for conceptual/preliminary design. This paper is about the implementation of full system simulation software for conceptual/preliminary aircraft design. It is based on the new Hopsan NG simulation package, developed at the Linköping University. ...

Fractal, which means broken or irregular fragments, was originally coined by Dr B. Mandelbrot in the year the 1970. Fractals describe a family of complex shapes that possess an inherent self-similarity in their geometrical structure usually in nature, since the pioneering work of Mandelbrot and others, a wide variety of applications for fractals has been found in many branches of science and en...

The use of an evolutionary algorithm in the framework of H1 control theory is being considered as a means for synthesizing controller gains that minimize a weighted combination of the infinite norm of the sensitivity function (for disturbance attenuation requirements) and complementary sensitivity function (for robust stability requirements) at the same time. The case study deals with a complet...