Morphing aircraft combine radical and subtle wing shape changes to improve vehicle performance relative to a rigid airframe. An aircraft wind tunnel model with considerable wing-shape freedom can serve as a tool in learning to model, control, and fully exploit the potential of such vehicles. This work describes the design and development of the MORPHEUS wind tunnel model that combines large and small wing shape variations for fundamental research in modeling and control of morphing air vehicles. The vehicle is designed for five primary purposes: quasisteady aerodynamic modeling of an aircraft with large planform changes, optimization studies in achieving efficient flight configurations, transient aerodynamic modeling of high-rate planform changes, evaluating planform maneuvering as a control effector, and gimbaled flight control simulation of a morphing aircraft. The fundamental knowledge gained from wind tunnel evaluation will be used to develop general stabilization and optimal control strategies that can be applied to other vehicles with large scale planform changes and morphing flight models.
Development of a morphing aircraft model for wind tunnel experimentation
2006
14 Seiten, 8 Quellen
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
AIAA-2006-2141 Development of a Morphing Aircraft Model for Wind Tunnel Experimentation
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2006
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