Aircraft flight control system design under state and controlbounds

Sophisticated control configurations are needed to meet the mission and pilotage requirements for advanced aircraft. The required vehicle performance during low altitude, low speed and high angle of attack flight, all-weather, day and night operations must be achieved, and new control technologies should be developed. This work presents a systematic control design philosophy for flight control systems when the state variables and control inputs are bounded by the prespecified constraints. The design procedure uses the dynamic programming concept. The fundamental idea involves minimization of nonquadratic functionals. A new representation of constraints is proposed using the smooth functions. The advantages of the synthesis approach are presented. To illustrate the design methodology the longitudinal control configuration for the F-18 fighter is synthesized     

民用飞机气动布局发展演变及其技术影响因素

在民用飞机气动布局发展演变的历程中,技术因素是根本推动力。为了研究未来民机的发展方向、技术需求以及应对策略,在回顾民机气动布局发展历程的基础上,梳理了在现代民机气动布局形成与演变过程中有着重要影响的4大类技术因素:航空发动机、气动设计、结构设计、飞行控制,并且揭示了这些技术因素在民机发展及其气动布局演变中所发挥的作用。结合未来航空运输市场出现的新需求,分析了未来民机的主要发展方向,重点分析了未来非常规布局民机可能采用的翼身融合、双气泡机身、支撑翼以及联结翼等气动布局形式。最后探讨了新技术条件下民用飞机发展在技术方面的需求和挑战,以及未来民用飞机总体设计的技术策略,明确了多学科设计优化是满足未来民机总体设计需求的有效技术途径。     

大型飞机增升装置气动机构一体化设计技术进展

增升装置设计作为大型客机设计的关键技术之一,其设计水平的提升将极大提高飞机的整体性能。虽然先进增升装置方案朝着简单形式发展,但其设计目标将结合气动、机构、结构、噪声等复杂考虑因素,以达到最优的综合性能和提高飞行的安全性、经济性和舒适性,是个高难度多学科多约束耦合的设计问题。结合气动优化、机构设计、一体化研究等多方面增升装置设计难点进行论述,并提出相应解决方案,最终完成气动/机构一体化设计。分别回顾了干净构型到巡航构型的外形设计方法;起降构型的气动评估、优化方法;增升装置位置表达方法和机构设计研究现状。最后阐述了气动/机构一体化设计方法的思想,总结了国内外在该方向所进行的研究和取得的成果。     

颤振边界高效精确预测分析

高效精确地确定多种飞机构型的颤振边界在飞机设计过程中具有重要意义。为了提高计算效率和计算结果的准确性,针对亚声速和跨声速两种马赫数区域,提出分别采用线性和非线性方法进行非定常气动力分析。非线性分析在引入精确的定常气动力的基础上,采用高效率跨声速小扰动方程进行求解;颤振求解统一采用g 法。对大型飞机的梁架—减缩刚度组合模型的空机及三种典型燃油构型进行涵盖飞行包线的全马赫数变高度颤振分析,结果表明：四种构型的颤振边界与颤振试飞边界一致,与其他分析方法相比,效率有明显提高,尤其是对多种飞机构型能够高效地获得准确的颤振边界,即说明本文采用的方法是目前适用于工程上的一种高效精确的预测大型飞机颤振边界的方法。     

一种电动飞机概念方案的参数设计方法

为了准确地进行电动飞机概念方案的设计评估,从其自身特征出发,结合任务需求和不同飞行阶段的能耗分析,建立了全机总质量评估模块;为了完成方程的封闭和满足必要的飞行性能约束,建立了参数矩阵图模块;搭建的设计系统可以有效评估起飞总质量、翼载荷、功率载荷和翼展等总体参数。基于该系统,对国内外三款电动飞机进行设计和对比分析:不同机型下,程序所得的各项质量、翼面积、展长和翼载荷等均与实际数据相近;各项数据对比的绝对数值差异反映出对于任务的模拟和能耗在合理范围之内,且其相对误差对于初级设计阶段的总体参数评估而言,也是可以接受的。这些研究结果不仅验证了本文设计方法的正确性和可行性,还表明了该方法可为电动飞机初步的参数选定和性能评估提供重要的设计支撑。      

面向先进战斗机研制的风洞模型飞行试验技术

高机动性先进战斗机气动布局与飞控系统设计面临愈加严峻的流动/运动/控制耦合问题,大迎角飞行以及推力矢量等高新技术应用也使其在研制过程中面临更高的技术风险,风洞模型飞行试验是实现飞行器气动/飞行/控制一体化研究、降低研制技术风险的重要手段。介绍了低速风洞模型飞行试验技术原理及国内外发展现状,对试验技术主要特点及其在支撑先进战斗机研制中的作用、应用范围、应用阶段以及面临的主要挑战进行了分析,为试验技术发展和应用提供参考。发展和应用低速风洞模型飞行试验技术,有利于充分挖掘战斗机的气动性能与控制性能,降低试飞风险,是新一代战斗机研制、新技术工程化应用的重要支撑技术。     

新型民用客机水系统选型研究

民用飞机水系统的功能是在飞行中为机上乘客提供饮用水、盥洗用水和马桶冲洗用水。水系统作为飞机上与乘客生活息息相关的系统,舒适性的要求越来越被关注。目前,飞机上使用的水系统方案各式各样,对于不同的飞机需求,各种方案各有各的特点。针对国际新型飞机上已经开始采用的水系统的各种方案进行了权衡研究,重点研究了水系统几种控制方式的优缺点以及机电综合控制技术作为新技术在新型民用飞机上的应用,同时介绍了灰水的几种处理方式、比较常用的几种水龙头以及其优缺点分析。针对某种飞机型号,根据飞机的市场定位和需求,介绍了如何选择一套合适的系统方案,来提高该飞机的经济性和实用性,为我国民用飞机水系统的研制提供一定的参考。     

客机概念设计中主要参数初估的计算工具

主要总体参数的初估是客机概念阶段的一项重要工作。本文目的是为客机概念设计开发一个总体参数的初估工具。通过文献分析和理论推导,总结出一种初步确定客机主要总体参数的方法。该方法只需输入商载、航程、飞行性能要求,以及较少的预估参数,就可计算出翼载、推重比和重量特性。根据该方法,应用MATLAB编程技术开发了一个具有良好用户界面的计算工具。算例验证表明,由该计算工具确定出的总体主要参数与参考机型基本一致。     

大展弦比联接翼气动/结构一体化设计

联接翼是一种将前翼和后翼连接在一起的飞行器创新布局形式。本文针对联接翼气动与结构一体化的布局概念,基于结构有限元参数化建模、结构优化、试验设计和响应面模型,采用系统级优化算法对其进行了初步的气动/结构一体化设计,所获计算结果对联接翼飞机总体参数的确定具有参考价值。     

The aerodynamic design of multi-element high-lift systems for transport airplanes

High-lift systems have a major influence on the sizing, economics, and safety of most transport airplane configurations. The combination of complexity in flow physics, geometry, and system support and actuation has historically led to a lengthy and experiment intensive development process. However, during the recent past engineering design has changed significantly as a result of rapid developments in computational hardware and software. In aerodynamic design, computational methods are slowly superseding empirical methods and design engineers are spending more and more time applying computational tools instead of conducting physical experiments to design and analyze aircraft including their high-lift systems. The purpose of this paper is to review recent developments in aerodynamic design and analysis methods for multi-element high-lift systems on transport airplanes. Attention is also paid to the associated mechanical and cost problems since a multi-element high-lift system must be as simple and economical as possible while meeting the required aerodynamic performance levels.     

Multi-objective optimization of aircraft design for emission and cost reductions

Pollutant gases emitted from the civil jet are doing more and more harm to the environ- ment with the rapid development of the global commercial aviation transport. Low environmental impact has become a new requirement for aircraft design. In this paper, estimation method for emis- sion in aircraft conceptual design stage is improved based on the International Civil Aviation Orga- nization （ICAO） aircraft engine emissions databank and the polynomial curve fitting methods. The greenhouse gas emission （CO2 equivalent） per seat per kilometer is proposed to measure the emis- sions. An approximate sensitive analysis and a multi-objective optimization of aircraft design for tradeoff between greenhouse effect and direct operating cost （DOC） are performed with five geom- etry variables of wing configuration and two flight operational parameters. The results indicate that reducing the cruise altitude and Mach number may result in a decrease of the greenhouse effect but an increase of DOC. And the two flight operational parameters have more effects on the emissions than the wing configuration. The Pareto-optimal front shows that a decrease of 29.8% in DOC is attained at the expense of an increase of 10.8% in greenhouse gases.     

联接翼气动／结构协同优化设计

联接翼是一种将前翼和后翼连接在一起的飞行器布局形式。针对联接翼气动／结构一体化的布局概念，通过结构有限元参数化建模、结构优化、试验设计和响应面模型技术，采用基于响应面的协同优化算法对其进行了气动与结构一体化设计，所获计算结果对大展弦比联接翼飞机构型初步设计具有参考价值。     

考虑排放影响的飞机多学科优化设计

随着民用航空运输业的发展,飞机对气候环境的影响越来越受到重视。为了满足未来飞机设计中经济性和环保性等指标,有必要在飞机概念设计阶段综合考虑成本和排放的影响。本文使用全球平均温度变化作为衡量飞机排放对气候影响的标准,分析了飞机巡航高度和速度对于排放物的影响。进一步,通过整合气动、重量、成本和排放等学科模型,建立了飞机概念设计阶段的多学科优化框架。基于该优化框架,以机翼平面形状、飞行速度和高度等参数为优化变量,分别以排放最小和成本最低为目标,进行了单目标和多目标优化设计研究。Pareto最优前沿的优化结果显示,单位排放成本的高低会影响成本相对于排放性能的变化趋势。     

Multipoint optimization on fuel efficiency in conceptual design of wide-body aircraft

Aircraft conceptual design optimizations that maximize the performance at a design condition (single-point) may result in designs with unsatisfying off-design performance. To further improve aircraft efficiency under actual flight operations, there is a need to consider multiple flight conditions (multipoint) in aircraft conceptual design and optimization. A new strategy for multipoint optimizations in aircraft conceptual design is proposed in this paper. A wide-body aircraft is taken as an example for both single-point and multipoint optimizations with the objective of maximizing the specific hourly productivity. Boeing 787-8 flight data was used in the multipoint optimization to reflect the true objective function. The results show that the optimal design from the multipoint optimization has a 7.72% total specific hourly productivity increase of entire flight missions compared with that of the baseline aircraft, while the increase in the total specific hourly productivity from the single-point optimal design is only 5.73%. The differences between the results of single-point and multipoint optimizations indicate that there is a good option to further improve aircraft efficiency by considering actual flight conditions in aircraft conceptual design and optimization.     

Flight control system design and optimisation with a genetic algorithm

A design procedure for a flight control system is here presented. An optimisation process, based on a genetic algorithm, is used to meet the frequency domain handling qualities requirements for the longitudinal plane. The parameters are implemented as fitness functions related to the expected magnitude of bandwidth and delay. The impact of the parametric shaping of the fitness functions on the search and optimisation process is also evaluated. The dynamic response of the augmented aircraft is obtained for a realistic simulation case, validated after comparison with reference test data. The bandwidth and the delay of the longitudinal short term attitude response are estimated before and after the inclusion of the flight control system in the simulation model, and the parameters are compared with the expected handling qualities levels. The feasibility of the design process is demonstrated and the overall performance of the generation process is analyzed.     

基于系统工程的飞机系统架构设计过程

随着电子化和集成化程度越来越高,现代飞机系统架构设计中出现越来越多的综合性问题,业界提出了体系性的飞机系统架构设计要求,包括系统工程过程要求、适航条款对架构设计的约束要求、高安全性设计要求等,但缺乏规范的、可落实的飞机系统架构设计过程。针对这个问题,提出了"基于系统工程的飞机系统架构设计过程",并引入了多视角策略(功能视角、逻辑视角、物理视角),针对每个视角,给出了完整的架构设计过程描述和输入输出定义;横跨三个视角,定义了五条设计主线,包括需求主线、架构主线、行为主线、性能主线和安全性分析主线;在多视角的框架下,五条主线上的设计数据可以构成全局性的追溯网络,支持开展各项架构设计分析,并最终支持架构设计质量的提高。     

Aerodynamic design of the high-lift-wing for a Megaliner aircraft

A ‘Megaliner’ aircraft configuration like the Airbus A380 will become a civil transport aircraft lager than all existing designs. Its wing had to be designed not only to give the required cruise performance but also to be compatible with the given airport infrastructure. The aerodynamic design of the high-lift system has to fulfil the resulting targets for the take-off and landing configuration but is also required to have the minimum possible mechanical and structural system complexity, i.e. resulting in a minimum possible weight and cost. After an introduction to constraints of a Megaliner configuration a summary of high-lift wing solutions and the constraints driving the high-lift wing design is given. The experiences in high-lift design on previous Airbus aircraft and the major tools (computational fluid dynamics and windtunnel testing) for the design work and its verification are presented. Also a side view is given to the importance of research programs for the development of new high-lift concepts for future aircraft. The described development work for the Megaliner high-lift wing was driven by the strong requirement for an optimised overall design. Various interactions with the cruise wing design and the design of the support and actuation system are highlighted, which were leading to the best possible balanced solution.     

航空发动机飞行载荷谱的预测

提出了基于飞机的设计飞行任务剖面、飞行力学及发动机原理的发动机飞行载荷的预测方法,即首先将飞机的设计飞行任务剖面通过飞行力学的基本原理转化为发动机的推力（或油门）剖面,然后通过发动机性能计算获得发动机的其它工作状态参数,从而获得发动机的飞行载荷谱。      

Impact of mission requirements and constraints on conceptual launch vehicle design

The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of mission requirements and constraints on both the optimum vehicle design and the effects on flight path selection for two types of reusable two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicles. The first vehicle type considered provides horizontal take-off and landing capabilities and is intended to be propelled by an airbreathing propulsion system during stage 1 flight. The second vehicle type assumes a vertical launch and is accelerated by a rocket propulsion system during the booster stage ascent flight. The analysis employs a design tool for simultaneous system and mission optimization. It consists of a CAD-based preliminary vehicle design tool, aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic calculation software, flight simulation programs, and a two-level decomposition optimization algorithm enabling simultaneous system and flight optimization. The results to be presented show that the cruise flight requirement for an European launched mission of the airbreathing vehicle results in a loss of 60 % payload mass as compared to a mere accelerated ascent for a near equatorial mission into the same target orbit assuming constant take-off mass. The strong dependencies of mission requirements on both the optimal vehicle design and the ascent performance are determined for the rocket-powered vehicle type by varying the inclination and altitude of the target orbit.     

飞机驾驶舱视觉告警信号设计的基本要求分析

飞机驾驶舱告警系统对提高飞行员工作效率和保障飞行安全具有重要的作用。本文主要概述了视觉告警信号的设计标准和信息编码的设计规定,并论述了相关标准中对颜色编码和告警字符的设计规定,为飞机驾驶舱视觉告警信号的设计提供相关设计参考。