Vision-Based Nonlinear Incremental Control for A Morphing Wing with Mechanical Imperfections

Morphing structures have acquired much attention in the aerospace community because they enable an aircraft to actively adapt its shape during flight, leading to fewer emissions and fuel consumption. Researchers have designed, manufactured, and tested a morphing wing named SmartX-Alpha, which can actively alleviate loads while achieving the...

Flexible Aircraft Gust Load Alleviation with Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion

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...

Flexible Aircraft Gust Load Alleviation with Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion

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...