Database-driven Safe Flight Envelope Protection for Impaired Aircraft

In this paper, an online flight envelope protection system is developed and implemented on impaired aircraft with structural damage. The whole protection system is designed to be a closed-loop of several sub-systems, including system identification, damage classification, flight-envelope prediction and fault-tolerant control. Based on the...

Database building and interpolation for a safe flight envelope prediction system

This paper reports the latest progress in the development of a database-driven safe flight envelope prediction system. By building up a database containing safe flight envelopes of different damage and fault scenarios, the challenges associated with online flight envelope prediction can be circumvented. The database is designed for different...

Effects of structural failure on the safe flight envelope of aircraft

The research presented in this paper focuses on the effects of structural failures on the safe flight envelope of an aircraft, which is the set of all the states in which safe maneuver of the aircraft can be assured. Nonlinear reachability analysis basedonan optimal control formulation is performed to estimate the safe flight envelope using...

Aircraft Damage Identification and Classification for Database-driven Online Safe Flight Envelope Prediction

Safe flight-envelope prediction is essential for preventing aircraft loss of control after the occurrence of sudden structural damage and aerodynamic failures. Considering the unpredictable nature of such failures, many challenges remain in the process of implementing such a prediction system. In this paper, an approach to online safe flight...

Online physical model identification for database-driven safe fight envelope prediction of damaged aircraft

Online safe flight envelope prediction for damaged aircraft: A database-driven approach

Aircraft Damage Identification and Classification for Database-driven Online Safe Flight Envelope Prediction