Optimal Control for Distributed Aeroelastic Morphing Structure with Uncertainties and Imperfections

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...

Aeroelastic Wing Demonstrator with a Distributed and Decentralized Control Architecture

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...

Black-box Online Aerodynamic Performance Optimization for a Seamless Wing with Distributed Morphing

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...

Design and Development of a Seamless Smart Morphing Wing Using Distributed Trailing Edge Camber Morphing for Active Control

In this study, the design and development of an autonomous morphing wing concept were investigated. The morphing wing was developed in the scope of the Smart-X project, aiming to demonstrate in-flight performance optimisation. This study proposed a novel distributed morphing concept, with six Translation Induced Camber (TRIC) morphing trailing...

Nonlinear Incremental Control for Flexible Aircraft Trajectory Tracking and Load Alleviation

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:...

Developing the Model Reduction Framework in High Frame Rate Visual Tracking Environment

The developments in the field of aerospace materials and structures allow the more light weight air vehicles. However, the aircraft body, particularly wing, can deform more appreciably due to the occurrence of flow separation and flutter. Therefore, active control is necessary in order to maintain structural integrity. One of the proposed...

Adaptive State Estimation and Real-Time tracking of Aeroelastic Wings with Augmented Kalman filter and Kernelized Correlation Filter

Advancements in aircraft controllers and the tendency towards increasingly lighter and more flexible aircraft designs create the need for adaptive and intelligent control systems. While lighter aircraft structures have the potential to show better structural and aerodynamic efficiency, they are also more susceptible to dynamic loads. A key...

Design of a smart morphing wing using integrated and distributed trailing edge camber morphing

In this study, the design and development of an autonomous morphing wing concept were investigated. This morphing wing was developed in the scope of, the Smart-X project, aiming to demonstrate in-flight performance optimisation. This study proposed a novel distributed morphing concept, with six Translation Induced Camber (TRIC) morphing...

Parallel Real-Time Tracking and 3D Reconstruction with TBB for Intelligent Control and Smart Sensing Framework

Recent advancements in aircraft controllers paired with increasingly flexible aircraft designs create the need for adaptive and intelligent control systems. To correctly capture the motion of a flexible aircraft wing and provide feedback to the controller, a large number of states (nodes along the span) must be monitored in real-time. Visual...

Adaptive real-time clustering method for dynamic visual tracking of very flexible wings

Advancements in intelligent aircraft controller design, paired with increasingly flexible and efficient aircraft concepts, create the need for the development of novel (smart) adaptive sensing suitable for aeroelastic state estimation. In contrast to rigid states, aeroelastic state estimation requires more measurement points (displacements...