Modeling and Design Considerations for Robust Control of Aircraft in Tight Cruise Formation

Kienitz, Karl Heinz; Kaden, André; Luckner, Robert

doi:10.2514/6.2013-4858

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“…The flight control system in total is either developed for the wake surfing (as in this paper) or consists of some add-on functions coupled to the outer loop autopilots that were previously designed around a classical inner loop control system, as shown in references [8], [9], [4], and [3].…”

Section: Wake Surfing Flight Control System Architecturementioning

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Flight Control Systems for fuel efficient wake surfing

Niestroy

Luckner

Koloschin

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AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum

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This paper gives an overview of a flight control architecture developed during studies for a trail aircraft flying in formation with a leading aircraft in order to save fuel, commonly referred to as air wake surfing for efficiency (AWSE). The paper starts with an overview of the motivation for formation flight followed by a generic flight control architecture and accompanying algorithms that achieve formation flight. Finally, a summary of some of the results from simulation of a formation of turboprop transport aircraft and formations of a tanker or high-speed transport aircraft with fourth generation fighters is presented.

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Section: Wake Surfing Flight Control System Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Flight Control Systems for fuel efficient wake surfing

Niestroy

Luckner

Koloschin

et al. 2020

AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum

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“…7 In either case, advanced flight control techniques are required to ensure optimal trajectories of the vortex-generating and the follower aircraft, 8 particularly with adverse atmospheric conditions. From the point of view of airframe design, unexpected WVE can lead to large dynamic loads that create structural integrity risks.…”

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Dynamic Load Alleviation in Wake Vortex Encounters

Hesse

Palacios

2016

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

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This paper introduces an integrated approach for flexible-aircraft timedomain aeroelastic simulation and controller design suitable for wake encounter situations. The dynamic response of the vehicle, which may be subject to large wing deformations in trimmed flight, is described by a geometrically-nonlinear finite-element model. The aerodynamics are modeled using the unsteady vortex lattice method and include the arbitrary

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Tight formation flight control based on H<inf>∞</inf> approach

Pereira

Kienitz

2016

2016 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)

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Modeling and Design Considerations for Robust Control of Aircraft in Tight Cruise Formation

Cited by 5 publications

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Flight Control Systems for fuel efficient wake surfing

Flight Control Systems for fuel efficient wake surfing

Dynamic Load Alleviation in Wake Vortex Encounters

Tight formation flight control based on H<inf>∞</inf> approach

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