Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 92 Issue 2

Development of a knowledge management system for the NOMAD instrument onboard the ExoMars TGO spacecraft

Laszlo Hetey, Eddy Neefs, Ian Thomas, Joe Zender, Ann-Carine Vandaele, Sophie Berkenbosch, Bojan Ristic, Sabrina Bonnewijn, Sofie Delanoye, Mark Leese, Jon Mason, Manish Patel

This paper aims to describe the development of a knowledge management system (KMS) for the Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery (NOMAD) instrument on board the ESA/Roscosmos…

Solar powered UAV model on MATLAB/Simulink using incremental conductance MPPT technique

Eralp Sener, Irem Turk, Isil Yazar, Tahir Hikmet Karakoç

The aviation industry has started environment friendly and also conventional energy independent alternative energy dependent designs to reduce negative impacts on the nature and…

Confidence interval prediction of ANN estimated LPT parameters

Mustagime Tülin Yildirim, Bülent Kurt

With the condition monitoring system on airplanes, failures can be predicted before they occur. Performance deterioration of aircraft engines is monitored by parameters such as…

Influence of the pressure relief door area and aspect ratio on discharge and force characteristics

Shiyu Feng, Chenchen Wang, Xiaotian Peng, Yan Yan, Yang Deng, Jun Chen

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of the PRD geometric parameters, including the area and aspect ratio, on the discharge and force characteristics of pressure…

Airline safety management system issues: a practitioner’s perspective

Filipe Chaves

This study aims to introduce the reader to some problems faced by safety practitioners operating within an airline safety department, particularly risk assessment subjectivity…

Optimization of machining parameters for abrasive water jet drilling of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite material using Taguchi method

Meltem Altin Karatas, Hasan Gokkaya, Muammer Nalbant

The aim of this paper is to optimize the machining parameters to obtain the smallest average surface roughness values during drilling of the carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP…

Experimental investigation on lift generation of flapping MAV with insect wings of various species

Syam Narayanan S., Asad Ahmed R., Jijo Philip Varghese, Gopinath S., Jedidiah Paulraj, Muthukumar M.

The purpose of this paper is to experimentally analyze the effect of wing shape of various insects of different species in a flapping micro aerial vehicle (MAV).

Multi-layered optimal navigation system for quadrotor UAV

Kheireddine Choutri, Mohand Lagha, Laurent Dala

This paper aims to propose a new multi-layered optimal navigation system that jointly optimizes the energy consumption, improves the robustness and raises the performance of a…

Method for optimal conflict-free aircraft trajectory generation

Yun-Xiang Han, Jian-Wei Zhang, Xiao-Qiong Huang

A number of automated tools will be required for the purpose of enabling efficient services in air traffic control. The purpose of this paper is to devise an optimal flight…

Aircraft positioning using GPS/GLONASS code observations

Kamil Krasuski, Janusz Cwiklak, Marek Grzegorzewski

This paper aims to present the problem of the integration of the global positioning system (GPS)/global navigation satellite system (GLONASS) data for the processing of aircraft…

Analysis of combined passively and actively morphing blade root chord length and blade taper for helicopter control

Firat Sal

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of passive and active morphing of blade root chord length and blade taper on the control effort of the flight control system…

Effect of hydrogen addition on exergetic performance of gas turbine engine

P. Gunasekar, S. Manigandan, Venkatesh S., R. Gokulnath, Rakesh Vimal, P. Boomadevi

The depletion of fossil fuel and emissions of harmful gases forced the pioneers in search of alternate energy source. The purpose of this study is to present an effective use of…

Numerical investigation of the unsteady aerodynamics of NACA 0012 with suction surface protrusion

Aslesha Bodavula, Rajesh Yadav, Ugur Guven

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of surface protrusions on the flow unsteadiness of NACA 0012 at a Reynolds number of 100,000.

Transformation process risk management to sustainable corporate performance and quality management: developing flowcharts for approved training organization

Ayse Kucuk Yilmaz

Each decision-making involves risk; therefore, risk is a strategic element in management and organization. In terms of risk management, the transformation process in organizations…

Sectorisation of airspace based on balanced workloads

S.W. Soh, Z.W. Zhong

Given the ever-growing air travel industry, there is an increasing strain on the systems that provide safe flights. Different methods have to be adopted to help to cope with the…

Decentralized fuzzy C-means robust algorithm for continuous systems

Tim Chen, J.C.Y. Chen

This paper aims to address the robust controller design problem for a class of fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm that is robust against both the plant parameter perturbations and…

Edge controller – a small UAVs distributed avionics paradigm

Svetoslav Zabunov, Roumen Nedkov

This paper aims to reveal the authors’ conceptual and experimental work on an innovative avionics paradigm for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Neural-sliding mode approach-based adaptive estimation, isolation and tolerance of aircraft sensor fault

Muhammad Taimoor, Li Aijun

The purpose of this paper is to propose an adaptive neural-sliding mode-based observer for the estimation and reconstruction of unknown faults and disturbances for time-varying…

Research on component synthesis active vibration suppression method for flexible spacecraft attitude maneuver with reaction jet actuators

Jiangtao Xu, Na Luo, Shaojie Liu, Baoshan Zhao, Fang Qi, Yinjun Lian, Litong Wang

The purpose of this paper is to design a component synthesis method to suppress the vibration of the flexible spacecraft, which has the constant amplitude force/moment actuator.

Effects of the actively morphing root chord and taper on helicopter energy

Firat Sal

The purpose of this paper presents the effects of actively morphing root chord and taper on the energy of the flight control system (i.e. FCS).