Browsing by Supervisor "Cooke, Alastair K."

Browsing by Supervisor "Cooke, Alastair K."

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  • Control system development for autonomous soaring 
    Akhtar, Naseem (Cranfield University, 2010-01)
    Thermal and dynamic soaring are two techniques commonly used by birds to extract energy from the atmosphere. This enables them to reduce, energy used during flight and increases their endurance. The thermal soaring ...
  • Effect of wing flexibility on aircraft flight dynamics 
    Qiao, Yuqing (Cranfield University, 2012-02)
    The purpose of this thesis is to give a preliminary investigation into the effect of wing deformation on flight dynamics. The candidate vehicle is FW-11 which is a flying wing configuration aircraft with high altitude and ...
  • Fibre optic sensing for measuring rotor blade structural dynamics. 
    Weber, Simone (Cranfield UniversitySATM, 2019-04)
    Researchers and practitioners spend much e ort in developing theoretical methods to design and predict the performance of helicopter rotor blades. These blades have evolved to become complex structures designed to operate ...
  • Handling qualities of high aspect ratio wing aircraft. 
    Portapas, Vilius (2018-07)
    To reduce the environmental impact of the aviation industry aircraft designers invest much effort to develop new and improve existing technologies to create new aircraft configurations. New high aspect ratio wings allow ...
  • Machine vision and scientific imaging for autonomous air vehicles (UAV). 
    Jameson, Pierre-Daniel (Cranfield UniversitySATM, 2008-08)
    This thesis outlines the necessary requirements to determine an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) pose relative to a lead aircraft or target, thus enabling a UAV to successfully follow a lead aircraft or target. The use ...
  • Machine vison and scientific imaging for autonomous air vehicles (UAV) 
    Jameson, Pierre-Daniel (Cranfield UniversitySOE, 2008-09)
    This thesis outlines the necessary requirements to determine an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) pose relative to a lead aircraft or target, thus enabling a UAV to successfully follow a lead aircraft or target. The use ...
  • Model simulation suitable for an aircraft at high angle of attack 
    Mohmad Rouyan, Nurhana (Cranfield University, 2016-01)
    Simulation of a dynamic system is known to be sensitive to various factors and one of them could be the precision of model parameters. While the sensitivity of flight dynamic simulation to small changes in aerodynamic ...
  • Modelling and simulation of flexible aircraft : handling qualities with active load control 
    Andrews, Stuart P. (Cranfield University, 2011-03)
    The study of the motion of manoeuvring aircraft has traditionally considered the aircraft to be rigid. This simplifying assumption has been shown to give quite accurate results for the flight dynamics of many aircraft ...
  • On scaling and system identification of flexible aircraft dynamics. 
    Yusuf, Sezsy Yuniorrita (Cranfield UniversitySATM, 2019-10)
    The use of subscale models has been common practice in the industry and has helped engineers gain more confidence in their design processes. However, each subscale model is developed for a specifc test, and consequently, ...
  • Pilot modelling for airframe loads analysis 
    Lone, Mudassir M. (Cranfield University, 2013-01)
    The development of large lightweight airframes has resulted in what used to be high frequency structural dynamics entering the low frequency range associated with an aircraft’s rigid body dynamics. This has led to the ...
  • Pilot-induced oscillation detection and mitigation 
    Liu, Qingling (Cranfield University, 2012-12)
    The aim of this thesis is to develop a real time PIO detection and mitigation system that consists of a detector based on short time Fourier transform(STFT) and autoregressive model(ARX) with exogenous inputs, together ...
  • Post-manoeuvre and online parameter estimation for manned and unmanned aircraft 
    Jameson, Pierre-Daniel (Cranfield University, 2013-07)
    Parameterised analytical models that describe the trimmed inflight behaviour of classical aircraft have been studied and are widely accepted by the flight dynamics community. Therefore, the primary role of aircraft ...
  • System identification of unmanned aerial vehicles 
    Carnduff, S. D. (Cranfield University, 2008-08-14)
    The aim of this research is to examine aspects of system identification for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The process for aircraft in general can be broken down into a number of steps, including manoeuvre design, ...
  • Trajectory generation for autonomous unmanned aircraft using inverse dynamics 
    Drury, R. G. (Cranfield University, 2010-09)
    The problem addressed in this research is the in-flight generation of trajectories for autonomous unmanned aircraft, which requires a method of generating pseudo-optimal trajectories in near-real-time, on-board the ...