KEYWORDS: Actuators, Ferroelectric materials, Aerodynamics, Kinematics, Finite element methods, Microsoft Foundation Class Library, Control systems, Computer simulations, Computational fluid dynamics, Smart materials
A novel Morphing Flight Control Surface (MFCS) system has been developed. The distinction of this research effort is that the SenAnTech team has incorporated our innovative Highly Deformable Mechanism (HDM) into our MFCS. The feasibility of this novel technology for deformable wing structures, such as airfoil shaping, warping or twisting with a flexure-based high displacement PZT actuator has been demonstrated via computational simulations such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). CFD was implemented to verify the accuracy of the complex potential flow theory for this application. Then, complex potential flow theory, kinematics, geometry, and static force analysis were incorporated into a multidisciplinary GUI simulation tool. This tool has been used to aid the design of the MFCS. The results show that we can achieve up to five degrees of wing twisting with our proposed system, while using minimal volume within the wing and adding little weight.
A new Sensor Validity Monitoring, Verification, and Accommodation (SVMVA) technique based on an artificial neural network is developed for a self-repairing Flight Control System (FCS). For the proposed system, the Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) method is employed as the on-line, real time learning, monitoring, and estimation tool. In order to conduct a feasibility study, we applied the developed algorithm to a flight vehicle simulator. The simulation results show that the proposed SVMVA with LVQ can instantly detect the failure of physical sensors and accommodate them for more than 30 minutes. By employing this type of analytical sensor redundancy, a flight vehicle can save power, weight, and space, which are required for installing redundant physical sensors.
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