Browsing by Supervisor "Whidborne, James F."

Browsing by Supervisor "Whidborne, James F."

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  • Optimisation methods for battery electric vehicle powertrain. 
    Othaganont, Pongpun (2017-07)
    The battery electric vehicle (BEV) is considered to be one of the solutions for reducing greenhouse gasses and an alternative means of transportation. However, some current limitations such as higher powertrain costs, ...
  • Propulsion and flight controls integration for the blended wing body aircraft 
    Ur Rahman, Naveed (Cranfield University, 2009-05)
    The Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft offers a number of aerodynamic perfor- mance advantages when compared with conventional configurations. However, while operating at low airspeeds with nominal static margins, the ...
  • Road vehicle state estimation using low-cost GPS/INS 
    Tin Leung, King (Cranfield University, 2010-04-12)
    Due to noise and bias in the Inertial Navigation System (INS), vehicle dynamics measurements using the INS are inaccurate. Although alternative methods involving the integration of INS with accurate Global Positioning ...
  • Robust gain-scheduled H [infinity] control for unmanned aerial vehicles 
    Chumalee, Sunan (Cranfield University, 2010-06)
    This thesis considers the problem of the design of robust gain-scheduled ight controllers for conventional xed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The design approaches employ a linear parameter-varying (LPV) control ...
  • Towards Autonomy of a Quadrotor UAV 
    Cowling, Ian (Cranfield University, 2008-10)
    As the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles rapidly increases, there is a growing interest in rotary vehicles as well as fixed wing. The quadrotor is small agile rotary vehicle controlled by variable speed prop rotors. ...
  • Wake Vortex Modelling and Simulation for Air Vehicles in Close Formation Flight 
    Saban, Deborah (Cranfield University, 2010-01)
    The aim of this research is to develop realistic models of aerodynamic cross-coupling e ects that can be incorporated in real-time or near real-time simulations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in close formation flight. ...