Flight control and dynamics
Design and simulation of a non-linear, discontinuous, flight control system using rate actuated inverse dynamics
... of control systems which most often has the biggest effect on limiting performance of the system are the power limitation of the actuators ...as flight control of aircraft and missiles these power ...
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The fluid dynamics of flight control by kinematic phase lag variation between two robotic insect wings
... hovering flight in dragonflies at zero advance ratio, because under these conditions the wing root and the body of the animal only face the downwash that is orientated downwards and thus would be likely to ...
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Flight Test Results for the F-16XL With a Digital Flight Control System
... The F-16XL ship 1 aircraft was flown with a digital flight control system (DFLCS) for the first time in December 1997. The F-16XL has its origins in the early 1980s when the General Dynamics ...
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On the development of computer code for aircraft flight dynamics analysis
... To control the airplane‟s trajectory, it can be done by changing the external surfaces of the ...Secondary flight control surfaces augment the primary surfaces by modifying the lift and drag ...
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Modelling framework for flight dynamics of flexible aircraft
... fluid dynamics (CFD) with computational structural mechanics (CSM) and result in processes that provide the desired insight, but are computationally very expensive (Cooper et ...with flight control ...
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Flight mechanics and control of escape manoeuvres in hummingbirds II Aerodynamic force production, flight control and performance limitations
... unique flight dynamics of flapping ...pitch dynamics were lightly damped and dominated by the effect of inertia, while roll dynamics were highly ...pitch control may require a more ...
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Blowfly flight and optic flow I Thorax kinematics and flight dynamics
... of flight behaviour, depending on the circumstances. Flight can be divided into two basic categories: chasing flight and cruising ...chasing, flight is mainly under the control of the ...
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Aircraft Flight Control Simulation Using Parallel Cascade Control
... In control applications, the rejection of external disturbances and performance improvement are major ...cascade control system can be considered .Basically, in a cascade control scheme the plant has ...
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Quadrotor Helicopter Flight Dynamics and Control: Theory and Experiment
... hover flight regime. Aided by well established research for helicopter flight control, three separate aerodynamic effects are investigated as they pertain to quadrotor flight, due to vehicular ...
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Fighting African capital flight: trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies
... capital flight, conditional convergence is likely to be ...capital flight is associated with high dependence on foreign aid and low quality of ...capital flight, in the light of higher anticipated ...
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Adaptive Quaternion Attitude Control of Aerodynamic Flight Control Vehicles
... areodynamic control flight vehicleswhich are nonlinear in aerodynamics with inertia uncertainties, atmospheric moment uncertainties and bounded ...robustifying control term applied to guarantee the ...
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Visual control of flight speed in honeybees
... of flight. There, bees encountering the moving pattern increase their flight speed by an amount that is slightly greater than the speed of the ...of flight, bees decrease their flight speed by ...
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Aerodynamics and Flight Dynamics of Free Falling Ash Seeds
... Detailed kinematics of free falling ash seeds were measured using high-speed cameras, then corresponding aerodynamic forces and moments were calculated employing computational fluid dynamics. The results show that ...
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Contraction Dynamics of Flight and Stridulatory Muscles of Tettigoniid Insects
... The twitch brevity of the tettigoniid mesothoracic wing muscles is exceeded among the striated muscles which have been examined only by that of the singing muscle of the cicada Psaltoda [r] ...
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Neuro Muscular Control of Dipteran Flight
... In these and other insects with neurogenic flight rhythms the frequency of wingbeat is directly a function of the frequency of motor output from the central nervous system to the main po[r] ...
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The Central Nervous Control of Flight in a Locust
... Third strip, discharge in the central stumps of the mesothoracic upper trace and metathoracic lower trace nerves I of a head and ventral cord preparation during response to wind on head.[r] ...
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The neuronal control of dragonfly flight II Physiology
... Mechanisms which regulate the timing of contraction and the power output of different muscles make use of variation in the number of motor neurones that spike and the number of spikes in[r] ...
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Flight stabilization control of a hovering model insect
... stabilization control of the hovering flight of a model insect, using the techniques based on the linear theories of stability and ...hover flight are used for the model ...hovering flight, ...
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Neural control of hindleg steering in flight in the locust
... pterothoracic flight motoneurones (including motoneurone 113; Simmons, 1980; Rowell and Pearson, 1983; Reichert and Rowell, 1985; Rowell and Reichert, ...the flight motoneurones, but this would be ...
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The neuronal control of dragonfly flight I Anatomy
... Motor neurones that innervate the same muscle cannot be distinguished by the sizes or positions of their cell bodies, or by the overall branching pattern of their dendritic processes, an[r] ...
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