Safe Flight Envelope Uncertainty Quantification using Probabilistic Reachability Analysis

Uncertainty Quantification in Flight Dynamics Modelling

The modelling of dynamic effects for flight dynamics analysis typically makes use of dynamic derivatives. A single value for the derivative is used and is assumed to be independent of the conditions for which it is calculated. This is however not the case. This work looks to quantify the uncertainty introduced as a result for an arbitrary manoeuvre within the flight envelope. The manoeuvres can...

Quantification of Uncertainty in Flow Simulations Using Probabilistic Methods

Reachability and Region of Attraction Analysis Applied to GTM Dynamic Flight Envelope Assessment

The objective of the NASA Aviation Safety Program is to improve the safety of current and future aircraft operating in the National Airspace System. Research under this program has focused on vehicle design, construction, operation and maintenance. Reducing aircraft loss of control accidents is critical to increasing aviation safety as it is the largest and most fatal aircraft accident category...

On-Line Safe Flight Envelope Determination for Impaired Aircraft

The design and simulation of an on-line algorithm which estimates the safe maneuvering envelope of aircraft is discussed in this paper. The trim envelope is estimated using probabilistic methods and efficient high-fidelity model based computations of attainable equilibrium sets. From this trim envelope, a robust reachability analysis provides the maneuverability limitations of the aircraft thro...

Launch-pad Abort Flight Envelope Computation for a Personnel Launch Vehicle Using Reachability

The main limitation of existing computational tools for continuous system reachability problems is that, due to the exponential growth of the computation with the dimension of the continuous state space, the tools can be applied effectively to relatively low dimensional problems (typically 1-4 dimensions). In this paper we adopt a two time scale approach to extend the use of continuous system r...