Reinforcement Learning for Flight Control of the Flying V

Recent research on the Flying V - a flying-wing long-range passenger aircraft - shows that its airframe design is 25% more aerodynamically efficient than a conventional tube-and-wing airframe. The Flying V is therefore a promising contribution towards reduction in climate impact of long-haul flights. However, some design aspects of the Flying V...

Dynamics of flexible spacecraft: an analysis approaches towards mathematical model order reduction

Increases in size and mechanical complexity of spacecraft result in increased complexity of the mathematical model which describes the spacecraft dynamics. This results in turn in increased computational effort, in increased difficulties in understanding the characteristics of the spacecraft dynamics, and in increased difficulties in the design...

Control loops with human operators in space operations: part III: rendezvous and docking operations and model analysis of performance with human-in-the-loop

This report presents the results of an illustrative analysis of human-in-the-loop rendezvous and docking (RVD) performance, for the purpose of demonstrating the practicality of applying human engineering methods and techniques, introduced in Part I of this project, to the analysis of control loops with human operators in space operations....