Sizing of Tilt-Wing Aircraft with All-Electric and Hybrid-Electric Propulsion

I Chakraborty, AA Mishra - Journal of Aircraft, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper demonstrates integrated vehicle and propulsion system sizing and performance
analysis using Parametric Energy-Based Aircraft Configuration Evaluator, an aircraft sizing …

Dynamic modeling and analysis of tilt-wing electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles

MS May, D Milz, G Looye - AIAA SciTech 2022 Forum, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0263. vid Electric vertical take-off
and landing (eVTOL) aircraft enable new transport options in regional and urban air mobility …

Filter and sensor delay synchronization in incremental flight control laws

R Steffensen, A Steinert, Z Mbikayi, S Raab… - Aerospace …, 2023 - Springer
This paper introduces and investigates several methods of filtering and delay
synchronization in incremental control law structures. It is shown that proper filter and delay …

Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Flight Control of a Tiltwing VTOL Aircraft

L Panish, C Nicholls, M Bacic - AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-1910. vid This paper explores
dynamic inversion-based flight control applied to a tiltwing vertical take-off and landing …

Incremental control as an enhanced and robust implementation of gain scheduled controllers avoiding hidden coupling terms

R Steffensen, A Steinert, F Holzapfel - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new and simple method to combine incremental control with the
classical proportional-integral (PI) control in order to increase the robustness properties of …

VTOL freewing design and adaptive controller development

RM Axten, T Khamvilai, EN Johnson - AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-0401. vid The freewing concept,
describing a vehicle whose wing pitch attitude is separated from the fuselage and managed …

A Generalized Full-Envelope Outer-Loop Feedback Linearization Control Strategy for Transition VTOL Aircraft

L Panish, M Bacic - AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-4511. vid This paper presents a
generalized full-envelope outer-loop feedback linearization control strategy that is …

Dynamic Inversion-Based Control Concept for Transformational Tilt-Wing eVTOLs

D Milz, MS May, G Looye - AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Transformational electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, including tilt-wings,
have (re) gained popularity over the past decade owing to their advantages of efficient wing …

Transition Strategies for Tilt-Wing Aircraft

MS May, D Milz, G Looye - AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Despite being the critical flight phase for tilt-wings, the transition maneuver is still not well
understood with respect to aerodynamics and flight dynamics. Flight and handling qualities …

Efficient Mid-Fidelity Aerodynamic Modeling of a Tilt-Wing eVTOL for Control Applications

D Perdolt, D Milz, MS May, M Thiele - … of the International Council of the …, 2022 - elib.dlr.de
Urban and regional air mobility have the potential to become important modes of
transportation in the future and thus currently attract a lot of attention. Tilt-wing electric …