... is performed using a test measurement system to obtain the real characteristics of the flapping vehicles during their flight. Design/methodology/approach The test is performed in an indoor flight test facility, equipped with a motion capture system and tracking cameras. Spatial position data are obtained...

...Jianmin Su; Yunfeng Dong Purpose Fractionated satellite clusters need coming together and avoiding crashing with limited random initial relative motion conditions. It is not necessary to keep the invariable configuration. The purpose of this paper is to put forward a control law which simulates...

...Tiauw Hiong Go; Wang Hao Purpose With possible practical application in a micro aerial vehicle (MAV), propulsion characteristics of a flapping wing with modified pitch motion are investigated both theoretically and experimentally in this paper. Design/methodology/approach Modified pitch motion...

... the tangential ship speed) and far ship (located out of Earth orbit) can return to the Earth by Sun gravity. Space technology Space sciences Motion using neutral plasma (not charged beam); using ultra‐cool plasma or particle beam in conventional temperature; control electrostatic collector...

... space launch costs thousands of times, others allow changing the speed and direction of space apparatus without expending fuel. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Space vehicles Nuclear power Motion Power transmission systems NOVA (1999, USA) – laser 100 kJ (wavelength λ...

... of lunar rovers are introduced. Then, matched‐features set is build by multi steps of image processing such as feature detection, feature tracking and feature matching. Based on the analysis of the image processing error, a two‐stage estimation algorithm is used to estimate the motion, robust linear motion...

... of motion derived in Part I (Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 79 No. 2, 2007). The differential transform method (DTM) is applied to the perturbation equations of motion and the transformed equations are coded in the computer package Mathematica. Findings The effects...

... and applied to spacecraft formation flying in eccentric orbits. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, T‐H equation is expressed as the explicit function form of reference orbit true anomaly, and the state transition matrix of relative motion of spacecraft formation flying in eccentric orbits...

...) motion perception and control to inform the design of pilot aids that will support flight in degraded visual conditions, particularly when close to the ground. The next stage will then be to construct and evaluate synthetic displays that recover the visual cues necessary to allow flight in degraded...

.... Motions of recovery object and parachute are subjected to the movements of double mass point systems. The recovery object's mass m_w concentrates on its center of gravity. The mass of parachute m_s concentrates on the center of parachute hemline...

...Y.A. Vershinin The requirements to maneuver a modern aircraft involve the development and realization of advanced control of a longitudinal and lateral aircraft motion. The manual control system for independent motion control of an aircraft on rolling and sideslip angles is studied. The system...

.... Incoherent light and other electrodynamic processes can impose steering forces on the microclusters as well as on the film. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Space technology Motion Thin‐films are simultaneously manufactured and launched as a matter‐beam from a proposed Lunar...

...), should enable to produce pitch, roll, yaw, heave, forward and lateral movement simultaneously. However, such a complex dynamic system can be modeled as a Stewart platform with pneumatic actuators, having six dof. During the simulations, on the position and orientation of moving platform, motion...

...Sait N. Yurt; I˙brahim Özkol; Metin O. Kaya; Chingiz Haciyev In this study the design of motion‐based flight simulators is carried out by specifying the performance required of the motion cueing mechanism, to generate translational and angular motions as a 6–3 Stewart Platform Mechanism (SPM...

... Keywords: Motion, Computer hardware, Computer software The SB-362OOIX measures and simulates synchro and resolver signals with its four channels of fully independent synchro-to- digital, resolver-to-digital, and up to two channels of digital-to-synchro/resolver. Each D-S/R channel can...