TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling and flight testing of wing shaping for autonomous control
AU - Thamann, Michael A.
AU - Ashcraft, Scott W.
AU - Smith, Suzanne Weaver
AU - Bailey, Sean C.
AU - Doepke, E. Brady
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - UAV development and usage has increased dramatically in the last 15 years. In this time frame the potential has been realized for deployable UAVs to the extent that a new class of UAV was defined for these systems. Inflatable wing UAVs provide a unique solution for deployable UAVs because they are highly packable (some packing to 5-10% of their deployed volume) and have the potential for the incorporation of wing shaping. In this paper, aileron effectiveness was derived from the equations of motion of aircraft as a necessary parameter for roll control during autonomous flight. A modeling process was then developed to calculate the aileron effectiveness of a wing shaping demonstrator aircraft. Successful autonomous flight tests were performed with the demonstrator aircraft including in-flight aileron doublets to validate the predicted aileron effectiveness, which matched within 8%.
AB - UAV development and usage has increased dramatically in the last 15 years. In this time frame the potential has been realized for deployable UAVs to the extent that a new class of UAV was defined for these systems. Inflatable wing UAVs provide a unique solution for deployable UAVs because they are highly packable (some packing to 5-10% of their deployed volume) and have the potential for the incorporation of wing shaping. In this paper, aileron effectiveness was derived from the equations of motion of aircraft as a necessary parameter for roll control during autonomous flight. A modeling process was then developed to calculate the aileron effectiveness of a wing shaping demonstrator aircraft. Successful autonomous flight tests were performed with the demonstrator aircraft including in-flight aileron doublets to validate the predicted aileron effectiveness, which matched within 8%.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84881322467
SN - 9781624102233
T3 - Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference
BT - 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference
T2 - 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference
Y2 - 8 April 2013 through 11 April 2013
ER -