Enhanced Range and Endurance Evaluation of a Camber Morphing Wing Aircraft [PDF]
Biomimetics, 2023 Flight range, endurance, maneuverability, and agility are the key elements that determine an aircraft’s performance. Both conventional and morphing wing aircraft have been well studied and estimated in all aspects of performance.
Bruce Jo, Tuba Majid
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Gust Response of Spanwise Morphing Wing by Simulation and Wind Tunnel Testing
Aerospace, 2023 The spanwise morphing wing can change its aerodynamic shape to suit its flight environment, thereby having the potential to improve the flight performance of the aircraft, especially in gusty conditions.
Zi Kan, Daochun Li, Zhuoer Yao
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Assessment of the Measurement Performance of the Multimodal Fibre Optic Shape Sensing Configuration for a Morphing Wing Section [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 In this paper, with the final aim of shape sensing for a morphing aircraft wing section, a developed multimodal shape sensing system is analysed. We utilise the method of interrogating a morphing wing section based on the principles of both hybrid ...
Nakash Nazeer +2 more
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Design of compliant mechanism-based variable camber morphing wing with nonlinear large deformation
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2019 The morphing wing with large deformation can benefit its flight performance a lot in different conditions. In this study, a variable camber morphing wing with compliant leading and trailing edges is designed by large-displacement compliant mechanisms ...
Yaqing Zhang, Wenjie Ge, Xiaojuan Mo
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Fuzzy Logic-Based Control for a Morphing Wing Tip Actuation System: Design, Numerical Simulation, and Wind Tunnel Experimental Testing [PDF]
Biomimetics, 2019 The paper presents the design, numerical simulation, and wind tunnel experimental testing of a fuzzy logic-based control system for a new morphing wing actuation system equipped with Brushless DC (BLDC) motors, under the framework of an international ...
Shehryar Khan +4 more
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Agile perching maneuvers in birds and morphing-wing drones [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAvian perching maneuvers are one of the most frequent and agile flight scenarios, where highly optimized flight trajectories, produced by rapid wing and tail morphing that generate high angular rates and accelerations, reduce kinetic energy at impact ...
Valentin Wüest +5 more
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Performance Comparison between Optimised Camber and Span for a Morphing Wing
Aerospace, 2015 Morphing technology offers a strategy to modify the wing geometry, and the wing planform and cross-sectional parameters can be optimised to the flight conditions.
Benjamin King Sutton Woods +1 more
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Research status and key technologies of in-plane deformation of morphing wing surface
Hangkong gongcheng jinzhan, 2023 Morphing wing is one of the important development directions of future aircraft design, and the study of in-plane deformation of the morphing wing surface has received widespread attention.
FENG Wenzheng +3 more
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Topology Optimization of Large-Scale 3D Morphing Wing Structures
Actuators, 2021 This work proposes a systematic topology optimization approach for simultaneously designing the morphing functionality and actuation in three-dimensional wing structures.
Peter Dørffler Ladegaard Jensen +3 more
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Aerospace, 2023 Detrimental environmental impacts due to the increasing demands of the aviation industry have gained tremendous global attention. With a potential fuel saving, along with high aerodynamic performance and maneuverability during different phases of a ...
Faisal Mahmood +2 more
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