Birds demonstrate that flapping-wing flight (FWF) is a versatile flight mode, compatible with hovering, forward flight and gliding to save energy. This extended flight domain would be especially useful on mini-UAVs. However, design is challenging because aerodynamic efficiency is conditioned by complex movements of the wings, and because many interactions exist between morphological (wing area,...

Birds demonstrate that flapping-wing flight (FWF) is a versatile flight mode, compatible with hovering, forward flight and gliding to save energy. This extended flight domain would be especially useful on mini-UAVs. However, design is challenging because aerodynamic efficiency is conditioned by complex movements of the wings, and because many interactions exist between morphological (wing area,...

Fenix [1], [2] is the ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) flight simulator based on 1-D transport code ASTRA coupled with 2-D equilibrium solver [3] SPIDER and Simulink (simulation platform integrated MATLAB). designed to simulate entire discharge from ramp up of poloidal field (PF) coils, through plasma phase, finishing down PF coils. Currently, controllers for position, shape, fuelling heating are implemente...

This paper presents a Miniature Aerial Vehicle (MAV) capable of handsoff autonomous operation within indoor environments. Our prototype is a Quadrotor weighing approximately 600g, with a diameter of 550mm, which carries the necessary electronics for stability control, altitude control, collision avoidance and anti-drift control. This MAV is equipped with three rate gyroscopes, three acceleromet...

This paper presents a design and simulation of the functions of a Flight Management System (FMS) in order to follow automatically four-dimensional trajectories. This is achieved by controlling the aircraft airspeed, altitude, heading and vertical speed in order to arrive to the merging point in the specified time. The system receives data from the aircraft and computes new control parameters ba...

The automated transfer of flight logbook information from aircrafts into aircraft maintenance systems leads to reduced ground and maintenance time and is thus desirable from an economical point of view. Until recently, flight logbooks have not been managed electronically in aircrafts or at least the data transfer from aircraft to ground maintenance system has been executed manually. Latest airc...

A piloted simulation was conducted to study handling qualities for the final phase of spacecraft docking in Earth orbit. Twelve evaluation pilots, including 10 pilot astronauts, provided Cooper-Harper ratings, Task Load Index ratings, and qualitative comments. The piloting task was manual translational control with automatic attitude hold during the final 10 ft of docking approach until the doc...

In this paper, several parameterlslate estimation approaches for the determination ofdragpolars from flight data are described and evaluated for a fly-by-wire (FBW) aircraft. Bolh model-based approaches (MBAs) and non-model-based approaches (NMBAs) are considered. Dynamic.response data from roller coaster and windupturn manoeuvres are generated in a FBW aircraft flight simulator at different fl...

Commercial Flight Simulator Packages often lack the ability for the player to know where he is on a geographical scale. Unless the player is familiar with the location of the flight there is no means to determine the direction that he must fly to reach his destination. This paper will show how the capabilities of the HLA regime allows a geographical map display to be linked directly to the flig...