The development and application of most present-day systems and control theory were spurred on by the need to resolve aerospace problems. This is roughly the problem of analyzing and designing flight control systems for tactical missiles or aircraft. The control laws used in current tactical missile or aircraft are mainly based on classical control design techniques. These control laws were dev...

The Aerospace Plane Research Center at the Muroran Institute of Technology is currently conducting research to develop enabling technologies for high-speed aircraft traveling high altitudes and constructing experimental, small-scale, unmanned supersonic called Oowashi as a testbed flight. To confirm control performance aircraft, an experiment using one-third-scale model has been planned. flight...

Aircraft maintenance planning and scheduling constitute planning, control and execution of materials (spare parts), operations (inspection, disassembly and assembly activities) and resources (labour, machines, transport equipment, etc.). This is a complex problem due to large number of components involved at various planning and execution levels, and the size/nature of resource-intensive mainte...

This paper is centered on using chemical reaction as a computational metaphor for simultaneously solving problems. An artificial chemical reactor that can simultaneously solve instances of three unrelated problems was created. The reactor is a distributed stochastic algorithm that simulates a chemical universe wherein the molecular species are being represented either by a human genomic contig ...

Flight training accidents constitute 14% of general aviation accidents. Herein we determined the rates, injury severity, and phase of flight for primary student solo accidents/incidents (mishaps) in Cessna 172 aircraft. Mishaps over the period spanning 1994–2013 were identified from the NTSB database. Student population data were from the FAA. Statistics employed proportion tests, Poisson distr...

Heavy aircraft main landing gear tyres skid immediately after touchdown as result of the high slip ratio between the tyres and runway, which lead to tyre wear and smoke. In this paper, the tyre wear is modelled on the Archard theory using ANSYS mechanical transient, to reveal the wheel’s dynamic and the tyre tread wear. The wheel’s dynamic and the amount of wear are calculated for initially sta...

This paper presents a polynomial time algorithm used for solving a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) formulation of a scheduling problem applicable to Air Traffic Control. We first relate the general MILP (which we believe to be NP-Hard) to the Air Traffic Control problem, which consists of performing maneuver assignments to achieve scheduling constraints for airport arrival traffic. This MIL...

Heavy aircraft main landing gear tyres skid immediately after touchdown as result of the high slip ratio between the tyres and runway, which lead to tyre wear and smoke. In this paper, the tyre wear is modelled on the Archard theory using ANSYS mechanical transient, to reveal the wheel’s dynamic and the tyre tread wear. The wheel’s dynamic and the amount of wear are calculated for initially sta...

This paper describes an analytic real-time emergency landing trajectory planner applicable in situations where an aircraft experiences severe damage or failure(s) that contract the feasible lateral plane flight envelope. Solutions are constructed as sequences of spirals that follow a reference arc, extending a traditional Dubins path solver to handle cases in which an aircraft cannot fly straig...