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{"title":"Prescribed-time fault-tolerant tracking control for quadrotor UAV with guaranteed performance","authors":"Miaomiao Tian ,&nbsp;Nan Wang ,&nbsp;Zhikai Wang ,&nbsp;Zhumu Fu ,&nbsp;Fazhan Tao","doi":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>During the actual flight of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), there are widespread actuator faults, system uncertainties and external disturbances, which bring significant threats to its steady flight. This paper studies the problem of prescribed-time fault-tolerant tracking control for quadrotor UAV with guaranteed performance. By integrating error reconstruction and dynamic adjustment strategies, this paper ensures that the position and attitude tracking errors converge to the preset performance range within the prescribed time. Furthermore, this paper utilizes the disturbance observer failure compensation method to simultaneously handle the multiplicative and additive failures of the actuator simultaneously, and presents a nonlinear observer-based adaptive strategy to estimate additive faults and unknown external disturbances acting on the UAV. Simulation results show that the position and attitude tracking errors converge to the preset accuracy within the prescribed time without actuator failures. When actuator failures occur, the attitude tracking error still converges on time, and the convergence rate of position error is minimally affected. Thus, the proposed control algorithm for quadrotor UAV is validated.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50955,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace Science and Technology","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 110162"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143704200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Composite anti-unwinding sliding mode attitude tracking control for rigid spacecraft: A prescribed-time method","authors":"Haibin Sun ,&nbsp;Yi Xu ,&nbsp;Linlin Hou ,&nbsp;Dong Yang ,&nbsp;Ticao Jiao","doi":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110158","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110158","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study addresses the prescribed-time anti-unwinding attitude tracking control problem for a rigid spacecraft. First, a prescribed-time sliding mode disturbance observer is designed to estimate the disturbances. To ensure prescribed-time convergence and avoid the unwinding phenomenon, a new prescribed-time sliding mode surface is established by introducing a hyperbolic sine function such that the designed sliding surface includes two equilibrium points. Subsequently, an attitude tracking control law with a disturbance compensation term is designed to guarantee that the system states converge to the sliding surface in a prescribed-time. The simulation results reveal that anti-unwinding prescribed-time attitude tracking of a rigid spacecraft can be achieved by using the developed attitude control law.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50955,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace Science and Technology","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 110158"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143687627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Study on the interaction mechanism between incident oblique shock wave and transpiration cooling and optimization of porosity","authors":"Xiaojuan Wang,&nbsp;Xiaoqiang Fan,&nbsp;Bing Xiong","doi":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110154","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transpiration cooling, due to its high cooling efficiency, is used for thermal protection in hypersonic aircraft. However, oblique shock waves incident on a structural surface can reduce cooling effectiveness, risking thermal protection failure. Additionally, the cooling film changes the wave structure in the main flow, reducing the aerodynamic performance. This study employs numerical methods to analyze the effects of oblique shock waves on transpiration cooling at various shock incidence angles and coolant blowing ratios, as well as the influence of transpiration cooling on the main flow field. The cooling efficiency curve is segmented into four intervals based on the flow mechanisms, with the corresponding optimization objectives proposed. A segmented porosity design method driven by pressure difference is adopted, improving the surface temperature uniformity at the hot end of the transpiration zone by 82.7%.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50955,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace Science and Technology","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 110154"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143685461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reinforcement learning of composite disturbance observer based tracking control for unmanned aerial helicopter under outside disturbances","authors":"Chunyu Zhang,&nbsp;Changyu Lu,&nbsp;Tao Li,&nbsp;Zehui Mao","doi":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper proposes a reinforcement learning (RL) approach with composite disturbance observer to investigate the tracking control for medium-scale unmanned aerial helicopter (UAH) under outside disturbances and model uncertainties. Each disturbance consists of a modelable component and a bounded time-varying one, which better reflects real-world scenarios. Firstly, to facilitate controller design, the nonlinear UAH model is decomposed into position and attitude loops. Secondly, for the position loop, an actor-critic network structure is utilized to approximate model uncertainties while a design of composite disturbance observer including a coordinated disturbance observer (CDO) and a nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) is presented to estimate outside disturbance and approximation error. The CDO employs a master DO and multiple slave DOs working in coordination to ensure rapid convergence of modelable disturbances under small gain conditions. Additionally, adaptive laws are developed for the weights of the actor and critic networks. Notably, system modeling error is incorporated into the weight update of the actor network to promote the rapid convergence of the weights. Thirdly, by combining tracking errors with the aforementioned estimations and approximations, a position tracking controller is developed to derive the corresponding closed-loop system. On the other hand, the attitude tracking controller is implemented similarly to the position loop, except for that the dynamic surface technique is employed to simplify analytical calculations. Fourthly, the Lyapunov stability theory is applied to prove that all error signals of the overall closed-loop system are uniformly ultimately bounded, and a co-design method for the CDOs, network weights, and controllers is developed based on a set of inequalities, demonstrating that its capability can not only effectively address the disturbances and uncertainties, but also significantly improve the tracking accuracy and UAH system stability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50955,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace Science and Technology","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 110156"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143678387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A strategy for enhancing ignition of aviation fuels at high altitudes using nanoparticle and fuel-soluble catalysts","authors":"Fanggang Zhang ,&nbsp;Lei Luo ,&nbsp;Jiahui Zhang ,&nbsp;Weiguang Cai ,&nbsp;Shu Zheng ,&nbsp;Xingyan Tang ,&nbsp;Wenzhe Cai ,&nbsp;Ran Sui","doi":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Improving the ignition performance of aviation fuels in high-altitude environments is essential for the reliable operation of aero-engines. This study investigated the catalytic ignition of RP-3 aviation fuel at high-altitudes using Co₃O₄ nanoparticles and fuel-soluble catalysts (platinum and palladium acetylacetonates). Ignition delay times (IDT) and ignition probabilities (IP) were measured <em>in situ</em> using thermocouples and a spectrometer. The results demonstrated that the addition of 150 ppm Co₃O₄ nanoparticles exhibited the best catalytic performance, achieving 100% IP with the shortest average IDT of 1.41 s. In contrast, the IP of RP-3 without catalysts was only 25%, with an average IDT above 15.92 s. The fuel-soluble catalysts also significantly improved the ignition performance. With 150 ppm addition, both cases reached 100% IP but longer IDTs than that of Co₃O₄. Thermogravimetric analysis indicated that Co₃O₄ nanoparticles catalyzed ignition through the Mars-van Krevelen mechanism at lower temperatures, while at higher temperatures they decomposed into CoO and O₂, further facilitating ignition through both catalytic effect and the increased amount of oxidant. On the other hand, the fuel-soluble catalysts decomposed into noble metals or their oxidants that provided active sites for the surface oxidation of the fuel, with the heat release from this process initiating gas-phase ignition. These results provide a new strategy for ignition enhancement of aviation fuels in extreme environments via catalytic combustion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50955,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace Science and Technology","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 110160"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Air curtains for landing gear noise reduction","authors":"Daniel Carroll ,&nbsp;Michael Pott-Polenske ,&nbsp;Gareth J. Bennett","doi":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110139","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110139","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the implementation of air curtain nozzles to reduce the aerodynamic noise radiated from a modified scaled LAGOON landing gear and a detailed trailing-arm Main Landing Gear representing a generic Bizjet wing mounted gear provided by Dassault Aviation and Safran Landing Systems. At approach to landing, landing gear noise is still a significant contributor to environmental noise in the vicinity of airports. Progress is being made with ambitious projects which aim to develop significantly reconfigured aircraft architectures to reduce airframe noise. The current project examines a noise abatement concept which could be retrofitted to existing landing gear configurations as an interim measure or as part of a longer term solution. Flow control in the form of “air curtain” nozzles which create a fluidic shield or virtual fairing are examined. The air curtain concept was examined as a low test-readiness-level (TRL), high-risk, high-gain technology tested in the EU funded H2020 collaborative research project: INVENTOR, InnoVative dEsign of iNstalled airframe componenTs for aircraft nOise Reduction. The nozzles operate at high pressure with rows of choked-flow sub-millimeter holes. Narrow and broadband noise attenuation was achieved, with reductions of over 7 dB measured. The air curtains were examined in DLR's AWB aeroacoustic facility in Braunschweig, Germany.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50955,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace Science and Technology","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 110139"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143687598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From bluff bodies to optimal airfoils: Numerically stabilized RANS solvers for reliable shape optimization","authors":"Antariksh Dicholkar ,&nbsp;Kenneth Lønbæk ,&nbsp;Mads H.Aa. Madsen ,&nbsp;Frederik Zahle ,&nbsp;Niels N. Sørensen","doi":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110153","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The robustness of Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solvers is a significant challenge in gradient-based aerodynamic shape optimization, especially when encountering shapes that produce highly separated flows. These cases often cause solvers to diverge or exhibit limit-cycle oscillations. Common practices rely on averaging non-converged solutions and often yield gradients that mislead optimizers, resulting in poor designs or failure. To address this, we extend the modified-BoostConv method to ensure full convergence of SIMPLE-based RANS solvers in such conditions, providing model-accurate gradients using the complex-step derivative technique.</div><div>Building on previous work, we introduce a novel coupling approach that resolves stability issues in earlier implementations of the modified-Boostconv method by splitting the basis construction for complex residuals into its solution (real) and gradient (imaginary) components. The gradient accuracy of averaged solutions from non-converging solvers is compared to fully converged gradients using the chaotic logistic map equation and a RANS simulation of a bluff body undergoing massive flow separation.</div><div>We then optimize a shape starting from a 80% thick bluff body, demonstrating the importance of accurate gradients. Using model-accurate gradients, we obtain an optimized 18% thick airfoil with a high lift-to-drag ratio, matching the results of optimizing a NACA 0018 airfoil and indicating the presence of a global optimum. Conversely, optimization with averaged gradients failed to improve the initial shape.</div><div>This study highlights the limitations of gradient averaging for non-converging solvers. It demonstrates that fully converged gradients reliably guide the optimizer toward attached flow regions, where RANS models are more accurate and reliable.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50955,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace Science and Technology","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 110153"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143678389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Control allocation problem transformation approaches for over-actuated vectored thrust VTOLs","authors":"Emmanuel Enenakpogbe,&nbsp;James F. Whidborne,&nbsp;Linghai Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>One main challenge of vectored thrust VTOLs is actuator thrust control saturation because it may lead to undesired behaviour and loss of control if the control channels are not prioritised. Another challenge of vectored thrust VTOLs is that the vectored thrust results in non-linear effector mapping preventing the direct use of standard linear control allocation approaches. Linear control allocation approaches have lower online computational and complexity burden, and have simplier requirements for fault tolerance and reconfigurability than nonlinear control allocation approaches. This paper proposes three real-time control allocation approaches for transforming a nonlinear control allocation problem to a linear problem so that classical linear control allocation approaches can then be used. The approaches which addresses the two main challenges of the particular VTOL configuration are then tested using three selected flight test manoeuvres on a generic over-actuated vectored thrust three degrees of freedom planar VTOL with no aerodynamics. The first approach transfers the non-linearity from the effector mapping to the computation of the actuator limits by formulating the real controls in cartesian form and then converts the physical actuator limits from polar to cartesian form. The second approach transforms the non-linear effector mapping to a linear mapping via numerical linearisation of the non-linear effector mapping in real-time. The third approach is similar to second approach except an extra step which transforms the virtual controls from cartesian to polar before performing an analytical linearisation resulting in a different and more complicated linear Effector mapping.</div><div>The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control allocation schemes to allocate remaining control authority to higher priority and critical control channels in order to maintain operational safety and stability during certain flight conditions while there is limited control authority.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50955,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace Science and Technology","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 110145"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143685457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Studying body-freedom flutter mechanism via a rigid-elastic aeroelastic model of reduced-order","authors":"Qitong Zou,&nbsp;Rui Huang,&nbsp;Haiyan Hu,&nbsp;Haojie Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper presents a rigid-elastic aeroelastic model of reduced-order for a flying-wing aircraft to reveal the interaction mechanism of a body-freedom flutter and optimize the structural parameters at the initial design stage of the flying-wing aircraft. The model proposed includes the effect of the sweep-back angle, the aerodynamic forces of the wing and fuselage, and the structural dynamics. To verify the accuracy of the model, the paper offers numerical simulations of body-freedom flutter characteristics compared with the flight tests of a flying-wing aircraft. Then, the paper addresses the interaction mechanism of body-freedom flutter by combining the flight test phenomenon with the simplified model from a modal perspective and gives the consequence of related structural parameters on the body-freedom flutter for guidance in a structural design. The results indicate that the short-period mode, plunge mode, bending mode, and torsion mode of the aircraft played a joint role in the body-freedom flutter analysis. In addition, the sweep-back angle and the centers of gravity had significant influenced on the static stability of the aircraft, and the stability transition in the static equilibrium point was extremely rapid and dangerous.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50955,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace Science and Technology","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 110155"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dynamical modelling of NASA's ACS3 solar sail mission","authors":"Andrea Minervino Amodio,&nbsp;Pieter Visser,&nbsp;Jeannette Heiligers","doi":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110146","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ast.2025.110146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>NASA's ACS3 mission aims to be the first Earth-bound solar sail to execute calibration steering laws for in-orbit estimation of solar-sail acceleration parameters. To maximise the mission's scientific return, this study identifies the physical effects to include in the dynamical model, the solar-sail acceleration parameters observable from flight data, and the uncertainties to consider during the orbit determination process. The sensitivity of the solar-sail dynamics to perturbations, model uncertainties, and sail-attitude errors is investigated by 1) comparing a reference orbit with modified orbits, each altered in a single dynamical aspect, and 2) evaluating the accuracy of modified models in reconstructing the reference orbit through iterative initial state adjustments.</div><div>For the one-sigma 10-meter observation noise level of the ACS3 mission and a seven-day arc, results indicate that higher-order lunar perturbations, planetary third-body effects, and relativistic corrections can be omitted from the dynamical model. Additionally, the geopotential expansion may be limited to degree and order 32. In contrast, the dynamics should include the effects of solid Earth tides, account for the instantaneous Sun-sailcraft distance in the solar radiation pressure model, and assume imperfect reflection from the sail surface in the solar and planetary radiation pressure models. Furthermore, the analysis reveals varying levels of observability for the sail optical coefficients, with frontside reflectivity and specularity showing the strongest influence on the solar-sail dynamics. Finally, systematic attitude errors and uncertainties in atmospheric density and accommodation coefficients are the most challenging factors to absorb through initial state adjustment, potentially complicating the estimation of solar-sail acceleration parameters.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50955,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace Science and Technology","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 110146"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143685458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}