This paper describes a system identification method for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The approach merges fixed-wing and rotary-wing modeling techniques with new strategies to develop a modeling method for eVTOL vehicles using flight test data. The eVTOL aircraft system identification approach is demonstrated through application to the NASA LA-8 tandem tilt-wing, distributed electric propulsion aircraft using a high-fidelity flight dynamics simulation. Orthogonal phase-optimized multisine inputs are applied to each control surface and propulsor at numerous flight conditions throughout the flight envelope to collect informative flight data. An aero-propulsive model is identified at each flight condition using the equation-error method in the frequency domain. The local model parameters are then blended to create a global model across the nominal flight envelope. Parameter estimation results are shown to provide a good fit to modeling data and have good prediction capability. The methodology is developed with a discussion of unique eVTOL vehicle aerodynamic characteristics and practical strategies intended to inform future flight-based system identification efforts for eVTOL aircraft.


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    Title :

    System Identification for eVTOL Aircraft Using Simulated Flight Data


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    Conference:

    AIAA SciTech 2022 Forum ; 2022 ; San Diego, CA and Online, US


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English