Handling Qualities sizing for aerial vehicles based on control moment polytopes

IF 5 1区工程技术 Q1 ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE

Aerospace Science and Technology Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI:10.1016/j.ast.2025.110020

Aristeidis Antonakis

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Abstract

The study of Handling Qualities (HQ) constitutes an integral part of the air vehicle design process, ensuring safety and flyability. Nevertheless, traditional HQ sizing methods derived for conventional aircraft configurations provide decreasing insight on modern, unconventional, flight-control-augmented vehicles, mainly due to the lack of related operational experience. In this article, a new HQ sizing methodology is proposed aiming at a more vehicle-agnostic approach than existent techniques. Based on the concept of state-space polytopes, the method provides a means for visualizing the HQ requirements and comparing them to the vehicle's control authority. The polytopic representation serves to compact the dynamic HQ requirements down to a limited number of quasi-equilibrium calculations and allows for the analytic derivation of “HQ gradients” with respect to the vehicle's design features; simultaneously, non-linear control saturation aspects are accounted for. Test cases on two vehicles with complex, yet very different HQ characteristics - a Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) aircraft and an electric Vertical Take Off and Landing (eVTOL) vehicle - are selected to demonstrate the technique's effectiveness and potential application domain.

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Aerospace Science and Technology 工程技术-工程：宇航

CiteScore

10.30

自引率

28.60%

发文量

654

审稿时长

54 days

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