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DESIGN OF AEROELASTIC CONTROLLER AND TESTING PROTOCOL USING 3D PRINTED WING MODELS

Black, Charlene M
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3524-207X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1525367138086183

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2018, Master of Science, Miami University, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.
Active aeroelastic control allows prevention of aircraft system failure due to flutter instabilities by using the sensors located along structure and control surfaces (acting as actuators) in applying feedback control. The receptance-based control strategy utilizes measurable transfer functions for control gain computations and therefore does not need approximate mathematical models for controller design. Research in this area is limited to the full state feedback case, which requires measurement of displacement and velocity at all sensing locations. To overcome this, receptance-based controller design is developed in this research for the case of partial sensor measurements. This allows the design of controllers with only available sensors and ensures control implementation even in the event of loss of few sensors. This approach naturally leads to optimization problems, which estimates optimal controller performance for available sensor/actuator combinations along the wing span. Furthermore, in order to evaluate controller performance, wing models employing these methods must be experimentally tested and verified, which can be an expensive and time-consuming process. Therefore, a framework and testing protocol employing 3D printed wind tunnel models is also investigated in this research for aeroelastic trend validation. Numerical simulations for controller design and experimental results validating aeroelastic trends are presented here.
Kumar Singh (Advisor)
Raymond Kolonay (Committee Chair)
James Chagdes (Committee Chair)
Aerospace Engineering; Mechanical Engineering

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  • Black, C. M. (2018). DESIGN OF AEROELASTIC CONTROLLER AND TESTING PROTOCOL USING 3D PRINTED WING MODELS [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1525367138086183

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Black, Charlene. DESIGN OF AEROELASTIC CONTROLLER AND TESTING PROTOCOL USING 3D PRINTED WING MODELS. 2018. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1525367138086183.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Black, Charlene. "DESIGN OF AEROELASTIC CONTROLLER AND TESTING PROTOCOL USING 3D PRINTED WING MODELS." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1525367138086183

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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