A review on non-linear aeroelasticity of high aspect-ratio wings

F Afonso, J Vale, É Oliveira, F Lau… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2017 - Elsevier
Current economic constraints and environmental regulations call for design of more efficient
aircraft configurations. An observed trend in aircraft design to reduce the lift induced drag …

Stability augmentation and active flutter suppression of a flexible flying-wing drone

DK Schmidt - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
Integrated control laws are developed for stability augmentation and active flutter
suppression of a flexible flying-wing research drone. The vehicle is a 12 lb unmanned flying …

Active flutter mitigation testing on the FLEXOP demonstrator aircraft

B Takarics, B Patartics, T Luspay, B Vanek… - AIAA Scitech 2020 …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
The paper details the research and corresponding implementation and testing steps of the
FLEXOP demonstrator aircraft. Within the EU funded project an unmanned demonstrator …

Application of structured robust synthesis for flexible aircraft flutter suppression

B Patartics, G Lipták, T Luspay, P Seiler… - … on Control Systems …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a method for structured robust control design for systems with a mixture
of parametric and dynamic uncertainty. The proposed method alternates between an …

MATLAB-based flight-dynamics and flutter modeling of a flexible flying-wing research drone

DK Schmidt - Journal of Aircraft, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
A relatively low-order linear dynamic model is developed for the longitudinal flight-dynamics
analysis of a flexible flying-wing research drone, and results are compared to previously …

Flight control oriented bottom-up nonlinear modeling of aeroelastic vehicles

B Takarics, B Vanek, A Kotikalpudi… - 2018 IEEE aerospace …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fuel efficiency of future aircraft can be improved by reducing the weight and structure
and by increasing the wingspan. This makes the aircraft structure more flexible and results in …

An overview of methods for investigation of aeroelastic response on high aspect ratio fixed-winged aircraft

MKA Khan, A Javed, NM Qadri… - IOP Conference …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The thrust of increasing environmental and economic constraints on aircraft has enthused
accelerated research in design of more economical and higher performance aircraft …

Robust flutter analysis for aeroservoelastic systems

A Kotikalpudi - 2017 - search.proquest.com
The dynamics of a flexible air vehicle are typically described using an aeroservoelastic
model which accounts for interaction between aerodynamics, structural dynamics, rigid body …

Linear parameter varying techniques applied to aeroservoelastic aircraft: In memory of Gary Balas

H Pfifer, CP Moreno, J Theis, A Kotikapuldi, A Gupta… - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents an overview of Dr. Gary Balas research activities in linear, parameter-
varying (LPV) systems applied to aeroservoelastic (ASE) aircraft. More efficient aircraft can …

Tensor product model-based robust flutter control design for the FLEXOP aircraft

B Takarics, B Vanek - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a flutter suppression control design methodology for the aircraft
designed within the European research project, FLEXOP. The aim of the flutter suppression …