... and most vulnerable to damage are UAVs without landing gear. Existing concepts of preserving landing maneuvers with UAVs without landing gear mainly focus on minimizing the impact force and loads overstressing the structure of the UAV . The purpose of this work is to research an innovative morphing wing...

...Jinwu Xiang; Kai Liu; Daochun Li; Chunxiao Cheng; Enlai Sha Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the unsteady aerodynamic characteristics in the deflection process of a morphing wing with flexible trailing edge, which is based on time-accurate solutions. The dynamic effect...

...Witold Artur Klimczyk; Zdobyslaw Jan Goraj Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a method for analysis and optimization of morphing wing. Moreover, a numerical advantage of morphing airfoil wing, typically assessed in simplified two-dimensional analysis is found using higher fidelity...

... 29 12 2016 02 01 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Discontinuous morphing Morphing wing Nonlinear multipoint wing twist Tailless aircraft A decade later NASA founded another program called Active Aeroelastic...

...Daochun Li; Shijun Guo; Tariq Osman Aburass; Daqing Yang; Jinwu Xiang Purpose – The purpose of this study is to develop an active controller of both leading-edge (LE) and trailing-edge (TE) control surfaces for an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with a composite morphing wing. Design/methodology...

...Shi Rongqi; Song Jianmei Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify the dynamic principle of internal structure of a complex morphing wing and control the wing to change configurations rapidly and smoothly. It includes modeling the dynamics of the morphing wing and designing a rational...