This paper reports the latest development of several techniques for adaptive flight envelope estimation and protection system for aircraft under damage upset conditions. Through the integration of advanced fault detection algorithms, real-time system identification of the damage/faulted aircraft and flight envelop estimation, real-time decision support can be executed autonomously for improving...

The continuing miniaturization of digital circuits and the development of low power radio systems coupled with continuing studies into the neurophysiology and dynamics of insect flight are enabling a new class of implantable interfaces capable of controlling insects in free flight for extended periods. We provide context for these developments, review the state-of-the-art and discuss future dir...

The Modelica Space Flight Dynamics Library has been developed as a unified environment to be used throughout the design cycle of the Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) for a generic multibody, possibly flexible, spacecraft. The library architecture has been recently redesigned, exploiting at its best Modelica’s reusability, flexibility and modularity features. In this contribution the mai...

This article describes one of the possibilities of simulating the flight parameters of the aircraft L 410 UVP E20 with the help of Matlab/Simulink. The article focuses on the definition of basic algorithms and the possibility of applying these algorithms using software such as Matlab/Simulink. Keywords—simulation, aircraft, L410, model

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...

In-flight measurements of the accelerations on a recreational flying disc are made with miniaturized accelerometers and a microcontroller data acquisition system using off-theshelf components. These data are used to determine the aerodynamic performance of the disc, and illustrate several of the complex gyrodynamic aspects of frisbee flight.

The paper presents a theory for flight dynamic analysis of highly flexible flying wing configurations. The analysis takes into account large aircraft motion coupled with geometrically nonlinear structural deformation subject only to a restriction to small strain. A large motion aerodynamic loads model is integrated into the analysis. The analysis can be used for complete aircraft analysis inclu...

An evaluation of aerodynamic and structural models is carried out for their application to flight dynamics of low-speed aircraft with very-flexible high-aspect-ratio wings. The structural dynamic approaches include displacement-based, strain-based, and intrinsic (first-order) geometrically-nonlinear composite beam models, while thin-strip and vortexlattice methods are considered for the unstead...