The application scope of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is increasing along with commensurate advancements in performance. hybrid quadrotor vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) UAV has the benefits both rotary-wing aircraft fixed-wing aircraft. However, vehicle requires a robust controller for takeoff, landing, transition, hovering modes because aerodynamic parameters differ those modes. We con...

In this paper, the problem of structural damage with partial loss vertical tail in aircraft dynamical system is investigated. A linearized aircraft model is introduced firstly, then a damage-tolerant controller based on an adaptive sliding mode control is proposed. Finally, simulations with an aircraft model are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed design te...

The tail assignment problem is a critical part of the airline planning process that assigns specific aircraft to sequences of flights, called lines-of-flight, to satisfy operational constraints. The aim of this paper is to develop an operationally flexible method, based upon the one-day routes business model, to compute tail assignments that satisfy short-range—within the next three days—aircra...

Devices attached to flying birds can hugely enhance our understanding of their behavioural ecology for periods when they cannot be observed directly. For this, scientists routinely attach units to either birds' backs or their tails. However, inappropriate payload distribution is critical in aircraft and, since birds and planes are subject to the same laws of physics during flight, we considered...

Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capability has extended the application of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) significantly. In this paper, simulation modeling flight test were employed to investigate hovering stability a tail-sitter UAV named Egretta. The model was developed based on simplified rigid body dynamic time-averaged propeller slipstream flow distribution. Meanwhile, testing with PID ...