Flight test maneuvers and dynamic modeling techniques were developed for determining
aircraft moments of inertia from flight test data. Full nonlinear rigid-body rotational equations …

AIRCRAFT system identification using flight data has proven to be a useful method for
developing models for small, inexpensive, unmanned aircraft [1–9], where expensive wind …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-2432. vid Aircraft mass and inertial
properties are required for predicting the dynamics and handling qualities of aircraft …

In the preliminary design of aircraft lifting surfaces, accurate mass and inertia properties can
be difficult to obtain. Typically, such methods as computer-aided design or statistical …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-0040. vid Development of a
nonlinear dynamic model for fixed-wing aircraft generally requires accurate, labor-intensive …

Small unmanned aircraft and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft have
recently emerged as vehicles able to perform new missions and stimulate future air …

Accurate inertia properties information is important to reach an optimized estimation of
attitude and precise control of a rigid spacecraft. Unfortunately, the satellite is succumbing …

This paper demonstrates the complete end-to-end procedure of bare-airframe system
identification, Simulink control design, software-in-the-loop (SIL) validation, and flight testing …