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DARPA's X-65 active flow control demonstrator mated with its wings

The X-65 Active Flow Control demonstrator continues to make progress, with the fuselage now mated with its wing as the first ...
Hackaday

Radio Control Joby Aircraft Uses Six Tiltrotors To Fly

eVTOL (Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing) craft are some of the more exciting air vehicles being developed lately. They aim to combine the maneuverability and landing benefits of helicopters with ...
New Atlas

Active flow control X-Plane uses virtual control surfaces made from air

DARPA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a phase 2 contract for its CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors) program, following wind tunnel testing of a small-scale X-plane that ...
Robb Report

Flying This Innovative New Aircraft Is as Easy as Driving Your Car

Simplifying flight—to make it as easy as getting into a car with automatic transmission—has long eluded the aerospace engineers creating new aircraft. While we’ve relied on flight controls such as ...
Nature

Robust trajectory maneuvering of VTOL aircraft using higher-order sliding mode control (HOSMC)

Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft present significant control challenges due to their nonlinear, strongly coupled dynamics and sensitivity to disturbances, particularly during hover–forward ...
Aviation Week

Flight Control System Designs Get Smaller, More Powerful

Emerging electromechanical actuation technologies for flight control systems will support more electric architecture. Credit: Collins Aerospace With a new age of electrically driven advanced air ...
Nature

Optimized super-twisting active disturbance rejection control based on nonlinear extended state observer for aircraft attitude stabilization

In this paper, a novel control strategy for the attitude stabilization of a nonlinear aircraft model is proposed, integrating active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) with the smart super-twisting ...