The first part of this talk will describe some of the exciting new next generation aircraft that NASA is proposing for the future. These aircraft are being designed to reduce aircraft fuel consumption and environmental impact. Reducing the aircraft weight is one approach that will be used to achieve these goals. A new control framework will be presented that enables lighter, more flexible aircraft to maintain aircraft handling qualities, while preventing the aircraft from exceeding structural load limits. The second part of the talk will give an overview of utility-scale wind turbines and their control. Results of collaboration with Dr. Balas will be presented, including new theory to adaptively control the turbine in the presence of structural modes, with the focus on the application of this theory to a high-fidelity simulation of a wind turbine.


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    Title :

    Control of Next Generation Aircraft and Wind Turbines


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Collaboration Meeting with NREL and University of Wyoming ; 2010 ; Golden, CO, United States


    Publication date :

    2010-04-29


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English