Pitch angle control by regenerative air brake for electric aircraft

K Yokota, H Fujimoto - IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Conventional aircraft use mechanical air brakes to adjust their descent paths; however, the
lift-drag ratio cannot be continuously controlled, which results in zigzag descent paths …

Stabilization of Tangent and Normal Contact Forces for a Quadrotor subject to Disturbances

C Izaguirre-Espinosa, A Munoz-Vazquez… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Force exertion, object manipulation, and interaction are novel trending research topics of
autonomous flying robots that can yield hoovering. Moreover, specifically with quadrotors …

Design of a Thrust Controller for Propeller Driven Systems Operating at Multiple Wind Velocities and Propeller Angular Velocities

Y Tsuji, D Yashiro, Y Kato, S Bando, K Yubai… - IEEJ Journal of …, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The objective of this study was to achieve thrust control of a propeller propulsion system with
two rotor blades rotated by a motor. Previously reported thrust control methods employ …

Basic Study on Regenerative Air Brake Using Observer-based Thrust Control for Electric Airplane

K Yokota, H Fujimoto, Y Hori - 2020 IEEE 16th International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research and development have been very active in electric airplanes (EAs). EAs use
electric motors as the power source; therefore, EAs are expected to achieve more secure …

Optimal Energy Trajectory Generation Based on Pitch-Dependent Mutual Inductance Model for In-Flight Inductive Power Transfer of Drones

K Fujimoto, H Fujimoto, AC Victorino… - 2024 IEEE 18th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To address the challenge of limited flight duration in drones, research into in-flight inductive
power transfer has emerged as a crucial solution. In this regard, optimizing the flight …

Design of a Gain-scheduled Rotor Thrust Controller Using Airspeed and Rotor Angular Velocity

Y Kato, D Yashiro, K Yubai… - IECON 2020 The 46th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The control performance of a propeller propulsion system depends on its rotor thrust control
performance. When a rotor thrust controller that includes a constant-thrust-coefficient model …

Design of a Contact-Force Controller including State Feedback Controllers for Propeller-Driven Systems

Y Nishii, D Yashiro, K Yubai… - IECON 2020 The 46th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contact-force control of aircraft involves aerial tasks that require making contact with other
objects. Conventional contact-force controllers for propeller-driven systems utilize a contact …

Estimation and Compensation of Airframe's Disturbance Force using Rotor Angular Velocity for Propeller-driven Systems

Y Nishii, D Yashiro, K Yubai… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The contact-force control of propeller driven systems accomplishes aerial tasks that require
making contact with other objects. In these tasks, a disturbance generated by a contact-force …

プロペラ推進システムのためのロータ角速度を用いた外乱オブザーバの設計

西井勇輝, 矢代大祐, 弓場井一裕… - 自動制御連合講演会講演 …, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
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