Download or read book Flight Test Techniques for Aircraft Parameter Estimation in Ground Effect written by James Matthew Clark and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flight Test Techniques for Aircraft Parameter Estimation in Ground Effect written by James Matthew Clark and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parameter Estimation Techniques and Applications in Aircraft Flight Testing written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parameter Estimation Techniques and Applications in Aircraft Flight Testing written by Flight Center and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To provide a forum for discussion of the status and the future of this technology, the NASA Flight Research Center hosted a Symposium on Parameter Estimation Techniques and Application in Aircraft Flight Testing. Technical papers were presented by selected representatives from industry, universities, and various Air Force, Navy, and NASA installations who are actively working in the field.

Download or read book Parameter Estimation of Powered lift STOL Aircraft Characteristics Including Turbulence and Ground Effects written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flight Evaluation of Ground Effect on Several Low aspect ratio Airplanes written by Paul A. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A constant-angle-of-attack-approach technique was used to measure ground effect on several low -aspect-ratio aircraft. The flight results were compared with results from constant -altitude flybys, wind-tunnel studies, and theoretical prediction data. It was found that the constantangle-of-attack technique provided data that were consistent with data obtained from constant-altitude flybys and required fewer runs to obtain the same amount of data. The test results from an F5D-1 airplane modified with an ogee wing, a prototype F5D-1 airplane, two XB-70 airplanes, and an F-104A airplane indicate that theory and wind-tunnel results adequately predict the trends caused by ground effect as a function of height and aspect ratio. However, the magnitude of these predictions did not always agree with the flightmeasured results. In addition, there was consistent evidence that the aircraft encountered ground effect at a height above one wing span.

Download or read book PARAMETER ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS IN AIRCRAFT FLIGHT TESTING PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM NASA written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Procedure for Estimating Stability and Control Parameters from Flight Test Data by Using Maximum Likelihood Methods Employing a Real time Digital System written by Randall D. Grove and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parameter Estimation Techniques and Application in Aircraft Flight Testing written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Introduction to Flight Testing written by James W. Gregory and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Flight Testing Introduction to Flight Testing Provides an introduction to the basic flight testing methods employed on general aviation aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles Introduction to Flight Testing provides a concise introduction to the basic flight testing methods employed on general aviation aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles for courses in aeronautical engineering. There is particular emphasis on the use of modern on-board instruments and inexpensive, off-the-shelf portable devices that make flight testing accessible to nearly any student. This text presents a clear articulation of standard methods for measuring aircraft performance characteristics. Topics covered include aircraft and instruments, digital data acquisition techniques, flight test planning, the standard atmosphere, uncertainty analysis, level flight performance, airspeed calibration, stall, climb and glide, take-off and landing, level turn, static and dynamic longitudinal stability, lateral-directional stability, and flight testing of unmanned aircraft systems. Unique to this book is a detailed discussion of digital data acquisition (DAQ) techniques, which are an integral part of modern flight test programs. This treatment includes discussion of the analog-to-digital conversion, sample rate, aliasing, and filtering. These critical details provide the flight test engineer with the insight needed to understand the capabilities and limitations of digital DAQ. Key features: Provides an introduction to the basic flight testing methods and instrumentation employed on general aviation aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. Includes examples of flight testing on general aviation aircraft such as Cirrus, Diamond, and Cessna aircraft, along with unmanned aircraft vehicles. Suitable for courses on Aircraft Flight Test Engineering. Introduction to Flight Testing provides resources and guidance for practitioners in the rapidly-developing field of drone performance flight test and the general aviation flight test community.

Download or read book Flight Test System Identification written by Roger Larsson and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the demand for more advanced fighter aircraft, relying on unstable flight mechanical characteristics to gain flight performance, more focus has been put on model-based system engineering to help with the design work. The flight control system design is one important part that relies on this modeling. Therefore, it has become more important to develop flight mechanical models that are highly accurate in the whole flight envelope. For today’s modern fighter aircraft, the basic flight mechanical characteristics change between linear and nonlinear as well as stable and unstable as an effect of the desired capability of advanced maneuvering at subsonic, transonic and supersonic speeds. This thesis combines the subject of system identification, which is the art of building mathematical models of dynamical systems based on measurements, with aeronautical engineering in order to find methods for identifying flight mechanical characteristics. Here, some challenging aeronautical identification problems, estimating model parameters from flight-testing, are treated. Two aspects are considered. The first is online identification during flight-testing with the intent to aid the engineers in the analysis process when looking at the flight mechanical characteristics. This will also ensure that enough information is available in the resulting test data for post-flight analysis. Here, a frequency domain method is used. An existing method has been developed further by including an Instrumental Variable approach to take care of noisy data including atmospheric turbulence and by a sensor-fusion step to handle varying excitation during an experiment. The method treats linear systems that can be both stable and unstable working under feedback control. An experiment has been performed on a radio-controlled demonstrator aircraft. For this, multisine input signals have been designed and the results show that it is possible to perform more time-efficient flight-testing compared with standard input signals. The other aspect is post-flight identification of nonlinear characteristics. Here the properties of a parameterized observer approach, using a prediction-error method, are investigated. This approach is compared with four other methods for some test cases. It is shown that this parameterized observer approach is the most robust one with respect to noise disturbances and initial offsets. Another attractive property is that no user parameters have to be tuned by the engineers in order to get the best performance. All methods in this thesis have been validated on simulated data where the system is known, and have also been tested on real flight test data. Both of the investigated approaches show promising results.

Download or read book Parameter Estimation Techniques and Applications in Aircraft Flight Testing written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Flight Research Center and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parameter Estimation Techniques and Applications in Aircraft Flight Testing written by Herman A. Rediess and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Estimation of Aircraft Dynamic States and Instrument Systematic Errors from Flight Test Measurements Using the Carlson Square Root Formulation of the Kalman Filter written by C. A. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of a procedure for estimating aircraft dynamic states and instrument systematic errors from flight test measurements is described. The method has particular application in non-steady performance estimation for reconstructing aircraft flight path and in the estimation of aerodynamic characteristics using the 'equation error' parameter estimation method. The state estimator can be extended to determine systematic measurement errors in the recorded data, giving a set of data which is compatible according to the kinematic equations which relate the measurements. The effectiveness of the procedures cannot be specified in a general way, since the results depend upon the representation of the input and output noise characteristics and on the choice of initial conditions for a given problem. This note has been written to allow users to apply the state estimation procedure to practical problems. A description of the Carlson Square Root Filter and its application to the kinematic equations of aircraft motion is given. The documentation of the computer program for state estimation is also presented. (Author).

Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Download or read book Identification of Dynamic Systems Nonlinear analysis and manoeuvre design written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1 examines the practical application of parameter estimation methodology to the problem of estimating aircraft stability and control derivatives from flight test data. The primary purpose is to present a comprehensive and unified picture of the entire parameter estimation process and its integration into a flight test program. Pt. 2 covers areas such as flight path reconstruction, nonlinear model identification, optimal input design and flight test instrumentation. This approach is referred to as the Two-Step Method (TSM), also known as Estimation Before Modelling (EBM) in the literature. It will be shown that this approach has significant practical advantages over methods which no attempt is made to decompose the joint parameter-state estimation problem. The two-step method is generally applicable to flight vehicles such as fixed wing aircraft and rotorcraft which are equipped with state of the art inertial reference systems.