Turbulence Mitigation for Aircraft in Urban Environments
Abstract
Conduct research on aircraft control using sensors that provide "time-forward" information on the flowfield, rather than position/attitude information used by traditional control systems. The hypothesis of this research is that sensors providing "time-forward" advantages should provide significantly better stabilisation and require lower controller power input. Preliminary results from recent wind-tunnel tests of a pressure sensor-based turbulence mitigation system have shown superior performance over traditional IMU-based systems and have enabled reasonably stable flight in high turbulence levels
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 23, 2016
- Source ID
- FA23861514001
Entities
People
- Simon C Watkins
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- RMIT University
- United States Air Force