The U.S. Department of Defense has established the Future Vertical Lift initiative to develop a family of next-generation vertical lift aircraft that will fly farther, faster, and more efficiently than the current fleet of rotorcraft. To accomplish these goals, advanced rotorcraft configurations beyond the single main rotor/tail rotor design must be considered. Two advanced configurations currently being flight tested in a technologydemonstrator program are a lift offset coaxial rotorcraft with a pusher propeller and a tiltrotor. The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation and Missile Center Technology Development Directorate has developed generic, high-fidelity flight-dynamics models of these two configurations to provide the government with independent control-system design, handling-qualities analysis, and simulation researchcapabilities for these types of aircraft in support of the Future Vertical Lift initiative.
Handling Qualities Requirements and Control Design for High-Speed Rotorcraft
2020
360 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Avionics , Rotary wing aircraft , Tilt wing aircraft , Flight control systems , Models , Simulation , Eigenvalues , Velocity , Actuators , Optimization , Test and evaluation , High-speed rotorcraft , Future vertical lift , Tiltrotor , Coaxial-pusher , Compound helicopters , Handling qualities , Qualitative criteria , Quantitative criteria , Mte (mission task elements) , Control laws , Flight dynamics , Inner-loop control law design , Outer-loop control law design , Pitch axis response type , Robustness , Emf (explicit model following) , Emf control laws
FLIGHT CONTROL DESIGN AND SIMULATION HANDLING QUALITIES ASSESSMENT OF HIGH-SPEED ROTORCRAFT
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