Technological foundation for future intra-aircraft wireless applications: State of the art of wireless data transmission

Multi-rate sampled-data control of a fly-by-wireless autonomous quadrotor helicopter

“…Since the attitude angles are small during nonaggressive maneuvers, linear controllers are designed for the inner loop, and then the closed-loop performance is validated using the full nonlinear model presented in equation (2). Using a pole-placement procedure to achieve a desired time response with no overshoot and a settling time of 1s, the following K 1 matrix was found using Ackerman's formula…”

“…However, to the best of our knowledge there are no results combining these three topics in the open literature. Fly-by-wireless, driven mainly by the aerospace industry, is a technology trend aiming at improving the efficiency and reliability of aircraft while reducing operational and maintenance costs by decreasing the amount and complexity of its wiring [1], [2]. Fly-by-wireless technology has been attempted in a fixed-wing UAV in [10] but to the best of our knowledge has not yet been used in quadrotors.…”

Mixed-Numerology Channel Division for Wireless Avionics Intracommunications

“…In particular, cables are heavy, which means more carbon footprints and uneconomical for commercial flights; furthermore, the plug-in-plug-out process of the cable is onerous and can be dangerous when the outlet is damaged unnoticed; at last, cables have introduced unbearable maintenance costs [1]. Many work have been presented to bring wireless communications as a solution to solve this problem [2,3]; however, without the systematic top-down design from both the government agencies and industry partners, it can be inaccessible to implement the wireless solutions to practical aircraft intracommunication systems. Fortunately, an emerging technology named wireless avionics intracommunications (WAIC) was aimed at addressing this pressing issue by connecting the on-board systems in aircraft via short-range wireless communications [4][5][6].…”