The general trend towards ubiquitous networking has reached the realm of airplanes. E-enabled airplanes with wired and wireless network interfaces offer a wide spectrum of network applications, in particular electronic distribution of software (EDS), and onboard collection and off-board retrieval of airplane health reports. On the other hand, airplane safety may be heavily dependent on the secu...

The next-generation commercial airplane models have networking facilities that enable onboard systems to communicate between themselves as well as with offboard systems. This new feature allows network applications to realize many benefits for airplane manufacturing, operations and maintenance processes. However, at the same time vulnerabilities are introduced that can threaten the onboard syst...

In the present study, a general aviation airplane is designed and analyzed. The design process starts with a sketch of how the airplane is envisioned. Weight is estimated based on the sketch and a chosen design mission profile. A more refined method is conducted based on calculated performance parameters to achieve a more accurate weight estimate which is used to acquire the external geometry o...

A process modeling method was raised based on cooperation pattern in airplane design, aiming at the difficulty of complexity and enormous magnitude of airplane design process. Investigating design steps, tools and organization of airplane design experienced, summarized four cooperation patterns. Feature of these patterns were analyzed, by distinguish their application backgrounds and scenarios....

airplane in presence of asymmetric left-wing damaged. ‎Variations of the aerodynamic parameters, mass and ‎moments of inertia, and the center of gravity due to ‎damage are all considered in the nonlinear ‎mathematical modeling. The proposed discrete-time ‎nonlinear MRAC algorithm applies the recursive least ‎square (RLS) algorithm as a parameter estimator as ‎well as the error between the real ...

A well known path-planning technique for mobile robots or planar aerial vehicles is to use Dubins paths, which are minimum-distance paths between two configurations subject to the constraints of the Dubins car model. An extension of this method to a three-dimensional Dubins airplane model has recently been proposed. This chapter builds on that work showing a complete architecture for implementi...