Aerospace, Volume 9, Issue 7

Accurate flight departure time prediction enables the rational use of airport support resources, aprons, and runway resources, and promotes the implementation of collaborative decision-making. In order to accurately predict the flight departure time,...

Despite offering often significant advantages with respect to other flying machines, especially in terms of flight endurance, airships are typically harder to control. Technological solutions borrowed from the realm of shipbuilding, such as bow thrus...

Reliability estimation for key components of a mechanical system is of great importance in prognosis and health management in aviation industry. Both degradation data and failure time data contain abundant reliability information from different sourc...

A multiple-airport system (MAS) consists of more than two airports in a metropolitan area under a large block of terminal airspace that is managed by one or two air traffic control units. When the capacity of an airport or of the terminal airspace dr...

Planetary rovers play a critical role in space exploration missions, where one of the most fundamental algorithms is pose determination. Due to environmental and computational constraints, real-time pose determinations of planetary rovers can only us...

Airport management plays a key role in the air traffic system. Introducing resources at the right time can minimize the effects of disruptions, reduce delays, and save costs as well as optimize the carbon footprint of the airport. Efficient decision-...

Accurately identifying the peak value of impact load acting on the helicopter structure during weapon launch is of great significance to the design and finalization of weapon pylons. Firstly, a method of standardized preprocessing load signal is prop...

As the key mechanism of attitude control of micro/nano-satellites, the flywheel design is mostly based on empirical formulae that do not meet the requirements of lightweight and high-performance micro/nano-satellite platforms. In this paper, the stru...

Variable diameter rotor can improve the flight performance of the aircraft both in hovering and forward flying and a duct can improve the rotor performance further both in force and efficiency. In previous studies, those two parts are always studied...

Finding evidence of extraterrestrial life would be one of the most profound scientific discoveries ever made, advancing humanity into a new epoch of cosmic awareness. The Venus Life Finder (VLF) missions feature a series of three direct atmospheric p...

The velocity and acceleration of geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) satellites change dramatically and periodically, and the operating area extends from hundreds of kilometers to 36,000 km above the Earth’s surface. This leads to the limitation...

Trajectory optimization has been an active area of research for air transport studies for several decades. But almost all flight optimizers proposed in the literature remain close-sourced, which presents a major disadvantage for the advancement of sc...

A novel methodology is presented for performing sensitivity analyses of assembled plate structures using the Boundary Element Method (BEM). The main novelty of this work is that the exact implicit derivatives of the BEM formulations for assembled pla...

Conventional aircraft use discrete flight control surfaces to maneuver during flight. The gaps and discontinuities of these control surfaces generate drag, which degrades aerodynamic and power efficiencies. Morphing technology aims to replace convent...

The operation of aircrafts with high aspect ratio wings is usually vulnerable to low-standard airports and bad weather. A new concept for a mono-biplane aerodynamics-driven morphing aircraft is proposed. The movable and fixed wings form a biplane mod...

Using the example of studying the supersonic underexpanded jet initial section, the issue of interpreting the experimental visualization data and Pitot pressure measurement data using the results of numerical calculations (2d RANS k-ω SST) is d...

A coupled aerostructural aircraft design and trajectory optimization framework is developed for the Air Cargo Challenge competition to maximize the expected score based on cargo carried, altitude achieved and distance traveled. Its modular architectu...

This work addresses the problem of vertical wind profile online estimation at a given location. Specifically, the north and east components of the wind are continuously estimated as functions of time and altitude at two waypoints used for landing on...

The space elevator system is a space tether system used to solve low-cost space transportation. Its high efficiency, large load and other characteristics have broad application prospects in the aerospace field. The stability analysis is the foundatio...

The aviation industry has committed to decarbonize its CO₂ emissions. However, there has been much less industry focus on its non-CO₂ emissions, despite recent studies showing that these account for up to two-thirds of aviation’s climate impact...

The traversal inspection of satellites in satellite constellations or geosynchronous orbits has been a focus of research. A large number of variable orbit requirements in the “single-to-single” mode severely affects the efficiency of insp...

This paper proposed a multi-view surface array to enlarge the field-of-view (FOV) from 45° × 45° to 72° × 75° and improve the estimation precision of guidance information. First, based on circular and rectangular FOV senso...

In aerospace engineering, high-order computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers suitable for three-dimensional unstructured meshes are less developed than expected. The Runge–Kutta discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) finite element method with compac...

This paper examines an assessment of the level of air transport services liberalization in Australia in order to generate recommendations on what key market access features of Air Services Agreements should be revised to reflect the changes in air tr...

Object detection is a fundamental part of computer vision, with a wide range of real-world applications. It involves the detection of various objects in digital images or video. In this paper, we propose a proof of concept usage of computer vision al...

To improve the resolution and accuracy of the high-order weighted compact nonlinear scheme (WCNS), a new $ϵ$-adaptive algorithm based on local smoothness indicators is proposed. The new algorithm introduces a high-order global smoothness indicato...

The hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is an important approach to test space robotic operations, rendering virtual free-floating dynamics on robotic facilities. However, this approach suffers from velocity divergence due to intrinsic time delay i...

A complex command and control task was selected as the test task, which included observing the overall and local situation, the interactive operation and situation display of detection equipment, the erection and launch of air defense equipment, and...

Supersonic combustion is an advanced technology for the next generation of aerospace vehicles. In the last two decades, numerical simulation has been widely used for the investigation on supersonic combustion. In this paper, the modeling and simulati...

The docking mechanism is a key component for on-orbit refueling technology. In this paper, the design and analysis of a novel floating docking mechanism for on-orbit berthing-based refueling is presented. Compared with traditional berthing and dockin...

Near-Earth asteroids are a great threat to the Earth, especially potential rendezvous and collision asteroids. To protect the Earth from an asteroid collision, it is necessary to investigate the asteroid defence problem. An asteroid terminal defence...

Mounting evidence of chemical disequilibria in the Venusian atmosphere has heightened interest in the search for life within the planet’s cloud decks. Balloon systems are currently considered to be the superior class of aerial platform for exte...

High-precision relative-state measurement technology is one of the key technologies for achieving the precision formation flying of distributed spacecraft. This paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of the precision formation-flying projects of dis...

With space technology development, the spatial robotic arm plays an increasingly important role in space activities. Spatial robotic arms can effectively replace humans to complete in-orbit service tasks. The trajectory planning is the basis of robot...

This paper proposes a novel fully nonlinear refined beam element for pre-twisted structures undergoing large deformation and finite untwisting. The present model is constructed in the twisted basis to account for the effects of geometrical nonlineari...

Venus is known for its extreme surface temperature and its sulfuric acid clouds. But the cloud layers on Venus have similar temperature and pressure conditions to those on the surface of Earth and are conjectured to be a possible habitat for microsco...

The plume-surface interaction that occurs as a result of a variable-thrust engine exhaust plume impinging on soil during landings is critical for future lunar mission design. Unique lunar environmental properties, such as low gravity, high vacuum, an...

Dynamic identification of the intensity of the moving loads applied to structures is an important task in aerospace, marine, and transportation industries. In the present work, a general technique is presented for identification of the time variation...

A fixed-time nonlinear circular guidance law that satisfies the impact time constraint is proposed. By utilizing the geometric principle that the length of a circular arc connecting the missile and the target can be analytically calculated, the exact...

Non-CO₂ aircraft emissions are responsible for the majority of aviation’s climate impact, however their precise effect is largely dependent on the environmental conditions of the ambient air in which they are released. Investigating the princip...

This paper analyses a new half-bridge current–source inverter for avionic systems. In the circuit, two 28 V batteries are used as inputs. These voltage sources are connected to inductors which create a constant current source. Then only two hig...

The emerging Local Maximum-Entropy (LME) approximation, which combines the advantages of global and local approximations, has an unsolved issue wherein it cannot adaptively change the morphology of the basis function according to the local characteri...

This paper presents an incremental backstepping sliding-mode (IBS) controller for trajectory control of a tailless aircraft with unknown disturbances and model uncertainties. The proposed controller is based on a nonlinear dynamic model of the taille...

Some asteroids flying close to Earth may pose a threat of impact. Among them, the structural and dynamical characteristics of rubble-pile asteroids can be changed because of the tidal force of the Earth in this process. This can provide key informati...

Accurate identification of electrical load working status can provide information support to the remote electrical distribution system (EDS) of more electric aircraft (MEA), which could use it to realize redundant switching and protection. This paper...

Aircraft retrofitting is a challenging task involving multiple scenarios and stakeholders. Providing a strategy to retrofit an existing platform needs detailed knowledge of multiple aspects, ranging from aircraft performance and emissions, developmen...

Waverider is a hypersonic vehicle that improves the lift-to-drag ratio using the shockwave attached to the leading edge of the lifting surface. Owing to its superior aerodynamic performance, it exhibits a viable external configuration in hypersonic f...

There has been a concern that the accurate numerical simulation of multi-body flow, which is caused by the multiple disintegrations of expired spacecraft re-entering into the near space, has a critical bottleneck impact on the falling area of the dis...

This paper researches the parametric optimization of a two-stage transonic compressor having a large air bypass at partial rotating speed according to flow analysis for a turbine-based combined cycle engine (TBCC). To obtain adequate thrust, the inle...

In this paper, the mechanism scheme and parametric design of a capture and lock system are studied based on the high reliability of locking systems. By analyzing the workflow and boundary conditions of the capture and lock system, a positioning desig...