Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures

• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures provides a highly timely presentation of the state-of-the-art, future directions and technical requirements of morphing aircraft. Divided into three sections it addresses morphing aircraft, bio-inspiration, and smart structures with specific focus on the flight control, aerodynamics, bio-mechanics, materials, and structures of these vehicles as well as power requirements and the use of advanced piezo materials and smart actuators. The tutorial approach adopted by the contributors, including underlying concepts and mathematical formulations, unifies the methodologies and tools required to provide practicing engineers and applied researchers with the insight to synthesize morphing air vehicles and morphing structures, as well as offering direction for future research.Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–10): John Valasek
Chapter 2 Wing Morphing in Insects, Birds and Bats: Mechanism and Function (pages 11–40): Graham K. Taylor, Anna C. Carruthers, Tatjana Y. Hubel and Simon M. Walker
Chapter 3 Bio?Inspiration of Morphing for Micro Air Vehicles (pages 41–53): Gregg Abate and Wei Shyy
Chapter 4 Morphing Unmanned Air Vehicle Intelligent Shape and Flight Control (pages 55–86): John Valasek, Kenton Kirkpatrick and Amanda Lampton
Chapter 5 Modeling and Simulation of Morphing Wing Aircraft (pages 87–125): Borna Obradovic and Kamesh Subbarao
Chapter 6 Flight Dynamics Modeling of Avian?Inspired Aircraft (pages 127–149): Jared Grauer and James Hubbard
Chapter 7 Flight Dynamics of Morphing Aircraft with Time?Varying Inertias (pages 151–175): Daniel T. Grant, Stephen Sorley, Animesh Chakravarthy and Rick Lind
Chapter 8 Optimal Trajectory Control of Morphing Aircraft in Perching Maneuvers (pages 177–203): Adam M. Wickenheiser and Ephrahim Garcia
Chapter 9 Morphing Smart Material Actuator Control Using Reinforcement Learning (pages 205–230): Kenton Kirkpatrick and John Valasek
Chapter 10 Incorporation of Shape Memory Alloy Actuators into Morphing Aerostructures (pages 231–260): Justin R. Schick, Darren J. Hartl and Dimitris C. Lagoudas
Chapter 11 Hierarchical Control and Planning for Advanced Morphing Systems (pages 261–280): Mrinal Kumar and Suman Chakravorty
Chapter 12 A Collective Assessment (pages 281–283): John Valasek

✦ Subjects

Транспорт;Аэрокосмическая техника;