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Aerospace, Volume 9, Issue 6

June 2022 - 52 articles

Cover Story: The use of EMAs for aeronautical applications promises substantial benefits regarding efficiency and operability. To advance the design of power electronics and secondary power supply, there is a strong need for the ability to swiftly study the effects of mission and operational aspects on actuator energy consumption. Pursuant to this, a generic mission-level flight control surface EMA power consumption simulation framework is presented. The core of the framework comprises physics-based EMA power estimators, linked with a six-degree-of-freedom flight dynamics and control simulation module. The developed framework could aid in the selection of the actuator, as well as in the optimization of airborne electronics and secondary power supply. View this paper
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Articles (52)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,928 Views
17 Pages

In order to study the aerodynamic interaction of the airfoil and jet flow, the free streamline model and the panel method are combined to develop a fast calculation method for the airfoil in two-dimensional inviscid jet flow. The vortex strength and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,097 Views
27 Pages

A Generic Mission-Level Flight Control Surface EMA Power Consumption Simulation Tool

  • Jingcheng Fu,
  • Albert S. J. van Heerden,
  • David Judt and
  • Craig Lawson

The use of electromechanical actuators (EMAs) for aeronautical applications promises substantial benefits regarding efficiency and operability. To advance the design of power electronics and secondary power supply, there is a need for the ability to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,738 Views
14 Pages

Conducting a wrinkling analysis for a membrane structure of complex boundary conditions is quite difficult. This paper develops a numerical calculation method for completing a wrinkling analysis of a square membrane structure and a trapezoidal membra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,904 Views
19 Pages

The pilot is the main person in charge of taxiing safety while moving on the airport surface. The visual separation and speed adjustment are directly related to safety and efficiency of airport surface operation. According to the actual taxiing proce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,390 Views
25 Pages

Trim Flap System Design for Improving Ballistic-Lifting Entry Performance of the Tianwen-1 Mars Probe

  • Xinli Li,
  • Yansong Li,
  • Dayong Hu,
  • Wei Rao,
  • Yufeng Qi,
  • Qiang Yang and
  • Gang Wang

The trim flap is an aerodynamic control surface capable of allowing Mars entry vehicles to improve landing performance during the most dangerous entry, descent, and landing (EDL) phase. In present work, a deployable trim flap system was proposed to m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,908 Views
21 Pages

Optimization of the Conceptual Design of a Multistage Rocket Launcher

  • Pedro Orgeira-Crespo,
  • Guillermo Rey,
  • Carlos Ulloa,
  • Uxia Garcia-Luis,
  • Pablo Rouco and
  • Fernando Aguado-Agelet

The design of a vehicle launch comprises many factors, including the optimization of the climb path and the distribution of the mass in stages. The optimization process has been addressed historically from different points of view, using proprietary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,376 Views
19 Pages

The PAPI Lights-Based Vision System for Aircraft Automatic Control during Approach and Landing

  • Dariusz Nowak,
  • Grzegorz Kopecki,
  • Damian Kordos and
  • Tomasz Rogalski

The paper presents the concept of a component of an aircraft’s automatic flight control system, controlling the airplane when in longitudinal motion (i.e., pitch angle, sink rate, airspeed channels) during automatic landing, from a final approa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,660 Views
21 Pages

Low-Cost Satellite Launch System—Aerodynamic Feasibility Study

  • Aleksander Olejnik,
  • Łukasz Kiszkowiak,
  • Piotr Zalewski and
  • Adam Dziubiński

In recent decades, the rapid development of alternative methods for launching satellites into space has been observed. The main purpose of this work is to obtain reliable information about aerodynamic properties, which will be useful in the prelimina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,019 Views
18 Pages

Previous staring attitude control techniques utilize the geographic location of a ground target to dictate the direction of the camera’s optical axis, while the assembly accuracy and the internal structure of the spaceborne camera are not consi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,622 Views
21 Pages

As to an aerospace vehicle, the flight span is large and the flight environment is complex. More than that, the existing navigation algorithms cannot meet the needs to provide accurate navigation parameters for aerospace vehicles, which results in th...

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Aerospace - ISSN 2226-4310