Flight Dynamics & Control for Smart Munition: The ISL Contribution

SMaRT: the Smart Meeting Room Task at ISL

As computational and communications systems become increasingly smaller, faster, more powerful, and more integrated, the goal of interactive, integrated meeting support rooms is slowly becoming reality. It is already possible, for instance, to rapidly locate task-related information during a meeting, filter it, and share it with remote users. Unfortunately, the technologies that provide such ca...

Improved Mathematical Model for Helicopters Flight Dynamics Applications

The purpose of this paper is concerned with the mathematical model development issues, necessary for a better prediction of dynamic responses of articulated rotor helicopters. The methodology is laid out based on mathematical model development for an articulated rotor helicopters, using the theories of aeroelastisity, finite element and the time domain compressible unsteady aerodynamics. The he...

Smart flight control surfaces with microelectromechanical systems

Smart Reconfigurable Fault-Tolerant Flight Control against Actuator Failures

In this study, active fault tolerant flight control technique with actuation reconfiguration is proposed. For this purpose two-stage Kalman filter (TSKF) is designed to identify the control distribution matrix elements corresponding to the faulty actuator, and a control reconfiguration action is taken to keep the performance of the impaired aircraft same as that of the unimpaired aircraft. Thus...

ETS-VII Flight Experiments For Space Robot Dynamics and Control

The Engineering Test Satellite VII (ETS-VII), developed and launched by National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) has been successfully flown and carried out significant experiments on orbital robotics with a 2 meter-long, 6 DOF manipulator arm mounted on this un-manned spacecraft. The ETS-VII should be noted as one of remarkable outcomes of the research effort on space robots, particu...