...Firat Sal Purpose This study aims to propose a combined stochastic design strategy for rotorcraft owing swept tapered anhedral (STA) rotorcraft main rotor blade (RMRB) tip geometry and autonomous rotorcraft flight control system (RFCS) for minimizing control effort. Design/methodology/approach...

...Erdal Yesilbas; Barlas Özgür; Enes Ozen; Tugrul Oktay Purpose The aim of this paper is to advance autonomous flight performance of a piston-prop tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (TUAV) by simultaneously and stochastically redesigning its vertical tail and autonomous flight control system (AFCS...

... be contacted at: ewelina.szpakowska.peas@gmail.com 29 03 2024 26 09 2024 16 10 2024 18 10 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Flight control system Aircraft emergency system Hardware Avionics Power input...

...Metin Uzun Purpose This study aims to simultaneously and stochastically maximize autonomous flight performance of a variable wing incidence angle having an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and its flight control system (FCS) design. Design/methodology/approach A small UAV is produced...

... flight performance. Flight control system (FCS) parameters (i.e. gains of longitudinal and lateral proportional-integral-derivative controllers) and wing redesign parameters mentioned before are simultaneously designed to maximize autonomous flight performance index using a certain stochastic...

...Metin Uzun; Tugrul Oktay Purpose The purpose of this paper is to improve autonomous flight performance of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having actively sweep angle morphing wing using simultaneous UAV and flight control system (FCS) design. Design/methodology/approach An UAV...

...Firat Sal Purpose This paper aims to offer a simultaneous design approach for helicopter having swept anhedral blade tip shape and helicopter flight control system (HFCS) to minimize controller cost. Design/methodology/approach By considering previously stated offer, control-oriented models...

...-making to autonomously reconfigure route. Multiple criteria decision-making RPAS Flight control system Aircraft emergency system Multi-stage decision-making When the emergency button is engaged, the route stored in memory is combined with information from onboard systems (such as GNSS...

...) and Yeo (2019) can be visited for most recent studies on tandem-rotor helicopters. In this article, for flight control system of tandem-rotor helicopter, a specific variance-constrained controller, namely, output variance-constrained controller (OVC) is chosen. Variance-constrained controllers have...

...Firat Sal Purpose 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). Design/methodology/approach Via regarding previously mentioned purposes, sophisticated and realistic helicopter models...

...Firat Sal Purpose 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 (FCS) of a helicopter. Design/methodology/approach Physics-based helicopter models, which...