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Nonlinear model based particle swarm optimization of PID shimmy damping control

  • Alaimo, Andrea;Milazzo, Alberto;Orlando, Calogero
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.211-224
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    • 2016
  • The present study aims to investigate the shimmy stability behavior of a single wheeled nose landing gear system. The system is supposed to be equipped with an electromechanical actuator capable to control the shimmy vibrations. A Proportional-Integrative-Derivative (PID) controller, tuned by using the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) procedure, is here proposed to actively damp the shimmy vibration. Time-history results for some test cases are reported and commented. Stochastic analysis is last presented to assess the robustness of the control system.

Side Force Modeling of Landing Gear and Ground Directional Controller Design for UAV (무인기용 착륙장치 측력 모델링 및 지상활주 제어기 설계)

  • Cho, Sung-Bong;Ahn, Jong-Min;Hur, Gi-Bong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.42 no.12
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    • pp.997-1003
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    • 2014
  • This paper describes modeling process to obtain precise landing gear model which is necessary to design a control law for ground auto-taxi, auto take-off/landing of UAV. In this paper, landing gear side force modeling is studied to complete a landing gear model of UAV. Side force modeling is performed by calculating cornering angle including steering angle. And ground directional controller is designed by using nose wheel steering and rudder steering at the same time to control course angle error. Accuracy of landing gear side force modeling and ground directional controller is proved by comparing of auto-taxi test results with simulation results.

Analysis of a shimming aircraft NLG controlled by the modified simple adaptive control

  • Alaimo, Andrea;Orlando, Calogero
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.459-473
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    • 2020
  • The aircraft nose landing gear (NLG) can suffer of an unstable vibration called shimmy that is responsible of discomfort and of fatigue stress on the gear strut components. An adaptive controller is proposed in this paper to cope with the aforementioned problem. It is based on a method called Modified Simple Adaptive control (MSAC) which is able of governing the NLG motion by using a feedback signal that relies on just one output of the plant. The MSAC only asks for the passivity of the controlled plant. With this aim, a parallel feedforward compensator is employed in this work to let the system satisfies the almost strictly passivity (ASP) requirements. The nonlinear equations that govern the aircraft NLG shimmy vibration behavior are used to analyzed the controlled system transient response undergoing an initial disturbance and taking into account different taxiing speed values.

Dynamic Characteristics Analysis of Landing Gear that Consider 6-Degree of Freedom of Helicopter (6자유도를 고려한 회전익 항공기 착륙장치의 동특성 해석)

  • Park, Wansoo;Hwang, Jaeup;Hyun, Youngho;Hwang, Jaehyuk;bae, Jaeseoung;Kim, Taewook
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, full body modeling and analysis of nose and main landing gear's characteristics of a helicopter are performed using the dynamics analysis program ADAMS. Also, when land limiting about helicopter body's degree-of-freedom, compared the characteristics. In the case of helicopter, because there are a lot of dangerous missions under flight condition that is disadvantageous than fixed wing airplane, need more detailed research for a helicopter.

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A Improvement Study on Safety Assurance of Main Landing Gear Failure for Rotary Wing Aircraft (회전익 항공기 안전 확보를 위한 주륜완충장치 결함 개선연구)

  • Choi, Jae Hyung;Chang, Min Wook;Lim, Hyun-Gyu;Lee, Je Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.45 no.6
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    • pp.490-497
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    • 2017
  • The Main Landing Gear(MLG) of Rotary Wing Aircraft is an essential equipment in Landing System for pilot to perform a flight mission. It supports the fuselage at ground and absorbs the impact from the ground when landing, thereby, these functions sustain operational capability for pilot and crew. However, the A aircraft caused asymmetry and leakage hydraulic when it was stationed on the ground. Therefore, this paper summarizes pilot comments in operation which are classified by cause of occurrence and the troubleshooting process about each comment. It also describes design improvements which was derived from troubleshooting and suggests verification results of flight test.

Development of Brake System with ABS Function for Aircraft

  • Jeon, Jeong-Woo;Woo, Gui-Aee;Lee, Ki-Chang;Kim, Yong-Joo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.423-427
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, it is to development of brake system with ABS function for aircraft. The test of brake system is required before applying on aircraft. The real-time dynamic simulator with 5-D.O.F. aircraft dynamic model is developed for braking performance test of ABS (Anti-skid Brake System) control h/w with anti-skid brake functions. The dynamic simulator is real-time interface system that is composed of dynamic simulation parts, master control parts, digital and analog in/out interface parts, and user interface parts. The 5-D.O.F. aircraft dynamic model is composed of a big contour and a little contour by simulation s/w. The big contour represents the interactions of forces in airframe, nose and main landing gear, and engines on the center of gravity. The little contour represents interactions of wheel, braking units, hydraulic units and a control unit. ABS control h/w unit with ABS control algorithm is also developed and is tested with simulator under the some conditions of gripping coefficient. We have known that ABS control h/w unit on wet or snowy runway as well as dry runway very well protects wheel skid.

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Vibration control of mechanical systems using semi-active MR-damper

  • Maiti, Dipak K.;Shyju, P.P.;Vijayaraju, K.
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.61-80
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    • 2006
  • The concept of structural vibration control is to absorb vibration energy of the structure by introducing auxiliary devices. Various types of structural vibration control theories and devices have been recently developed and introduced into mechanical systems. One of such devices is damper employing controllable fluids such as ElectroRheological (ER) or MagnetoRheological (MR) fluids. MagnetoRheological (MR) materials are suspensions of fine magnetizable ferromagnetic particles in a non-magnetic medium exhibiting controllable rheological behaviour in the presence of an applied magnetic field. This paper presents the modelling of an MRfluid damper. The damper model is developed based on Newtonian shear flow and Bingham plastic shear flow models. The geometric parameters are varied to get the optimised damper characteristics. The numerical analysis is carried out to estimate the damping coefficient and damping force. The analytical results are compared with the experimental results. The results confirm that MR damper is one of the most promising new semi-active devices for structural vibration control.