Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles have the potential to enable cost effective Urban Air Mobility (UAM) applications. These concepts may also pose several challenging handling and control problems, which must be addressed prior to safe and efficient urban operations. This paper investigates a simplified vehicle control concept that is designed to address some of these challenges for a conceptual Lift Plus Cruise vehicle. This concept also includes several variations of a transition-to-hover function, designed to assist pilots in capturing and maintaining a stabilized hover prior to landing. The different simplified control architectures for this concept are presented along with preliminary findings. Preliminary results show that the simplified control concept can be effective in assisting pilots to achieve safe and reliable hover landings, and that transition-to-hover functions have the potential of reducing workload while increasing accuracy. A follow on evaluation will be performed in the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) at NASA Ames Research Center. The planned tests will focus on more operationally representative scenarios, while building upon these operations with additional test cases exploring variations in glidepath angles and wind conditions.


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    Titel :

    Simplified Vehicle Control Concept for a Lift Plus Cruise eVTOL Vehicle


    Beteiligte:
    J. Kaneshige (Autor:in) / T. Lombaerts (Autor:in) / K. Shish (Autor:in) / M. Feary (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024


    Format / Umfang :

    44 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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