Numerical investigation on unsteady characteristics of ducted fans in ground effect

Ducted fans are widely used in various applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) due to the high efficiency, low noise and high safety. The unsteady characteristics of ducted fans flying near the ground are significant, which may bring stability problems. In this paper, the sliding mesh technology is applied and the Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes(URANS)method is adopted to evaluate the influence of ground on the aerodynamic performance of ducted fans. The time-averaged results sho...     

Timeliness optimization of unmanned aerial vehicle lossy communications for internet-of-things

Information freshness is a key factor for Internet-of-Things(Io T) to make appropriate decisions and operations. This paper proposes an analytical framework for evaluating the timeliness performance of the Io T system based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) lossy communications.The performance analysis consists of the outage probability analysis and the Age-of-Information(Ao I) analysis with outages. To begin with, we solve a lossy coding problem formulated from the UAV communication system, and d...     

Interaction tonal noise generated by contra-rotating open rotors

Fast and accurate prediction of sound radiation of Contra-Rotating Open Rotors(CRORs) is an essential element of design methods of low-noise open rotor propulsion systems.In the present work, a previous frequency-domain model is extended to predict CROR noise. It builds explicitly the relationship between harmonic loadings and corresponding tonal noise, by which the influential parameters to noise generation can be clearly understood. The real distributions of steady and unsteady blade loadings ...     

Interference mechanism and damage accumulation in high-speed cross scratches on hard brittle materials

Precision and low damage grinding of aviation optical elements can effectively improve the overall processing efficiency. The mechanism of high-speed cross scuffing of multiple abrasive particles has become an important factor affecting the forming quality of workpiece. Interaction of abrasive trajectory determines machined surface and subsurface morphology and damage.According to the relative motion trajectory of wear particles on the workpiece surface, a theoretical model of the trochoidal tra...     

Design,modeling, and control of morphing aircraft:A review

A morphing aircraft can adapt its configuration to suit different types of tasks, which is also an important requirement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAV). The successful development of an unmanned morphing aircraft involves three steps that determine its ability and intelligent: configuration design, dynamic modeling and flight control. This study conducts a comprehensive survey of morphing aircraft. First, the methods to design the configuration of a morphing aircraft are presented and analyzed...     

Autonomous mission reconstruction during the ascending flight of launch vehicles under typical propulsion system failures

In recent years, Chinese Long March(LM) launchers have experienced several launch failures, most of which occurred in their propulsion systems, and this paper studies Autonomous Mission Reconstruction(AMRC) technology to alleviate losses due to these failures. The status of the techniques related to AMRC, including trajectory and mission planning, guidance methods,and fault tolerant technologies, are reviewed, and their features are compared, which reflect the challenges faced by AMRC technology...     

Virtual flight test of pitch and roll attitude control based on circulation control of tailless flying wing aircraft without rudders

Circulation Control(CC) realizes rudderless flight control by driving compressed air jet to generate a virtual rudder surface, which significantly improves low detectability. The layout plan of combined control rudder surface is proposed based on the tailless flying wing aircraft. The closed-loop jet actuator system and stepless rudder surface switching control strategy are used to quantitatively study the control characteristics of circulation actuator for pitch and roll attitude through 3-DOF ...