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Chang, J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author)
Incremental control, including incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion (INDI) and incremental backstepping (IBS), is a sensor-based control framework that enhances the control robustness by exploiting sensor measurements. Although its effectiveness has been demonstrated on various aerospace systems, the explicit and quantifiable expression for...
conference paper 2022
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Mkhoyan, T. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author), De Breuker, R. (author)
This study investigated the design and development of an autonomous aeroservoelastic wing concept with distributed flaps. This wing demonstrator was developed in the scope of the SmartX project, aiming to demonstrate in-flight performance optimization and multi-objective control with over-actuated wing designs. Following a successful test...
conference paper 2022
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Ruland, O.L. (author), Mkhoyan, T. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author)
Morphing is a promising bio-inspired technology, with the potential to make aircraft more economical and sustainable through adaptation of the wing shape for best efficiency at any flight condition. This paper proposes an online black-box performance optimization strategy for a seamless wing with distributed morphing control. Pursuing global...
conference paper 2022
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Schildkamp, R.R.M. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author), Chang, J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Sodja, J. (author)
This paper presents the development and initial characterization of an active, para- metric wing section with aileron and spoiler control surfaces. This wing section is intended to replace the currently used passive wing section setup and facilitate research in active con- trol techniques of aeroelastic phenomena such as flutter, gust load...
conference paper 2022
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Schildkamp, R.R.M. (author), Chang, J. (author), Sodja, J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author)
This paper proposes an incremental nonlinear control method for aeroelastic sys- tem gust load alleviation and active flutter suppression. These two control objectives can be achieved without modifying the control architecture or the control parameters. The proposed method has guaranteed stability in the Lyapunov sense and also has robustness...
conference paper 2022
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Vasudevan, S. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author)
This paper aims to explore the advantages offered by machine learning (ML) for dimensionality reduction of nonlinear transonic aerodynamics. Three ML techniques are evaluated in terms of their ability to generate interpretable low-dimensional manifolds of the transient pressure distributions over a NACA4412 airfoil equipped with a flap. These ML...
conference paper 2023
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Natella, M. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author), De Breuker, R. (author)
This paper presents a unified framework for aeroelastic tailoring of free-flying aircraft with composite wings. A continuous-time state-space model is used to describe the flow. The 3D composite wing structures is condensed into a Timoshenko beam model by means of a cross-sectional modeler. The aerodynamic and structural models are closely...
conference paper 2018
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Wang, Xuerui (author), van Kampen, E. (author), Chu, Q. P. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)
In this paper, an Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI) controller is<br/>developed for the flexible aircraft gust load alleviation (GLA) problem. First, a flexible aircraft model captures both inertia and aerodynamic coupling effects between flight dynamics and structural vibration dynamics is presented. Then an INDI GLA controller is...
conference paper 2018
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Mkhoyan, T. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author), De Breuker, R. (author)
This research takes a further step towards the development of an autonomous aeroservoelastic wing concept with distributed flaps. The wing demonstrator, developed within the TU Delft SmartX project, aims to demonstrate in-flight performance optimization and multi-objective control using an over-actuated wing design. To address the challenges...
conference paper 2024
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Wang, Xuerui (author), Mkhoyan, T. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)
This paper proposes a nonlinear control architecture for flexible aircraft simultaneous trajectory tracking and load alleviation. By exploiting the control redundancy, the gust and maneuver loads are alleviated without degrading the rigid-body command tracking performance. The proposed control architecture contains four cascaded control loops:...
conference paper 2021
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Wang, Z. (author), Liu Xu, Vanessa Q. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)
In the development of electric aircraft, the use of distributed electric propulsion introduces a potential occurrence of propeller whirl flutter, which needs to be taken into account for wing structural design. To this end, this work extends an in-house aeroelastic optimization tool by means of including a post-processing procedure on whirl...
conference paper 2022
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Wang, Xuerui (author), Mkhoyan, T. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)
This paper proposes a nonlinear control architecture for flexible aircraft simultaneous trajectory tracking and load alleviation. By exploiting the control redundancy, the gust and maneuver loads are alleviated without degrading the rigid-body command tracking performance. The proposed control architecture contains four cascaded loops:...
journal article 2022
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Wang, Xuerui (author), van Kampen, E. (author), Chu, Q. P. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)
This paper designs an incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion control law for free-flying flexible aircraft, which can regulate rigid-body motions, alleviate gust loads, reduce the wing root bending moment, and suppress elastic modes. By fully exploring the sensor measurements, the model dependency of the proposed control law can be reduced...
journal article 2019
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Chang, J. (author), Guo, Zongyi (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author)
The sensor-based Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI) control has shown promising robustness in the aerospace research field. This control framework only requires a partial knowledge of plant (control effectiveness) because of its usage of angular accelerations and actuator output measurements. However, there are still un-negligible...
journal article 2022
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De Breuker, R. (author), Mkhoyan, T. (author), Nazeer, N. (author), Stuber, V.L. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author), Mkhoyan, A. (author), Groves, R.M. (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author), Sodja, J. (author)
This article describes the challenges of integrating smart sensing, actuation, and control concepts into an over-sensed and over-actuated technology integrator. This technology integrator has more control inputs than the expected responses or outputs (over-actuated), and its every state is measured using more than one sensor system (over-sensed)...
journal article 2022
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Mkhoyan, T. (author), Ruland, O.L. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author)
Inspired by nature, smart morphing technologies enable the aircraft of tomorrow to sense their environment and adapt the shape of their wings in flight to minimize fuel consumption and emissions. A primary challenge on the road to this feature is how to use the knowledge gathered from sensory data to establish an optimal shape adaptively and...
journal article 2022
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Ruland, Oscar (author), Mkhoyan, T. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author)
journal article 2023
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Chang, J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author)
journal article 2022
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Wang, Z. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)
This work presents a new aeroelastic optimisation framework for the preliminary design of variable stiffness composite wing structures. The framework is constructed by sequentially and iteratively solving two sub-problems: aeroelastic tailoring and lay-up retrieval, using gradient-based algorithms with full-analytical sensitivities provided....
journal article 2022
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Wang, Z. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)
In the structural design of aircraft wings, aeroelastic tailoring is used to control the aeroelastic deformation to improve the aerostructural performance by making use of directional stiffness. Recently, tow-steered composites, where the fibre angles continuously vary within each ply, have been proven to have the potential to further expand...
journal article 2021
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