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[[Media:New_FG_architecture.pdf]] (pdf) | [[Media:New_FG_architecture.pdf]] (pdf) | ||
=2003= | |||
== January == | |||
===Icing Scenarios with the Icing Encounter Flight Simulator=== | |||
Glen A. Dimock,∗ Robert W. Deters,† and Michael S. Selig‡ | |||
Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering | |||
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | |||
'''Abstract''':As part of the Smart Icing System (SIS) project at the University of Illinois at | |||
Urbana–Champaign, the Icing Encounter Flight Simulator (IEFS) integrates various SIS | |||
components in a simulated aircraft icing environment. The IEFS combines a customized | |||
version of FlightGear, an open-source flight simulator, with a suite of SIS support software | |||
using multiple desktop PCs connected through a local area network. The resulting | |||
simulation integrates most SIS concepts for testing and demonstration purposes. To this | |||
end, two fictional but historically-motivated icing scenarios are used to illustrate the various | |||
SIS interventions capable of preventing icing events. Specifically, a tailplane stall | |||
event during a steep descent and a roll upset event during an emergency approach are | |||
considered. During each scenario, multiple SIS intervention points are examined. | |||
[http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/apasim/pubs/AIAA_Paper_2003-0023.pdf Full Report] | |||
=2002= | =2002= | ||
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[http://www.kbs.twi.tudelft.nl/docs/report/DKS02-05.pdf Full Report] | [http://www.kbs.twi.tudelft.nl/docs/report/DKS02-05.pdf Full Report] | ||
===Determination of Planetary Meteorology from Aerobot Flight Sensors === | |||
Phil Summers, Dave Barnes, Andy Shaw | |||
Department of Computer Science | |||
'''ABSTRACT''':Airborne robots, or aerobots, are fast becoming potential experiment delivery and planetary analysis vehicles. With the | |||
current trend towards a faster, better, cheaper methodology, aerobots seem to offer significant advantages over rovers | |||
and other methods of planetary exploration. This paper describes work performed in the Department of Computer | |||
Science at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, as part of a PhD project, to examine potential methods that could be | |||
used to make an aerobot mission a realistic prospect.[...] | |||
== August == | |||
===Icing Encounter Flight Simulator with an Integrated Smart Icing System=== | |||
RobertW. Deters, Glen A. Dimock, and Michael S. Selig | |||
Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical | |||
Engineering | |||
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |||
'''Abstract''':The Icing Encounter Flight Simulator is one part of the Smart Icing System project | |||
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The goal of the Smart Icing System | |||
project is to develop technology necessary to improve the safety of aircraft flying in icing | |||
conditions. The icing simulator is used as a platform to integrate different components | |||
of the Smart Icing System and to test the effectiveness of the components. To create an | |||
Icing Encounter Flight Simulator, functionality and Smart Icing System components were | |||
added to the FlightGear flight simulator, an open source flight simulator available on the | |||
internet. A reconfigurable aircraft model, an autopilot, and an icing model were some | |||
of the functionality added to FlightGear. Smart Icing System components integrated | |||
into the simulator include the neural-network-based icing characterization, envelope protection | |||
system, ice protection system, and an Ice Management System enhanced glass | |||
cockpit. To ensure a real-time simulation, computationally extensive processes have been | |||
distributed over several computers linked together by a local network. A tailplane stall | |||
scenario and a roll upset scenario have been designed to demonstrate the effectiveness | |||
of the Smart Icing System components on a nonlinear aerodynamics model of a DHC-6 | |||
Twin Otter aircraft in clean and iced conditions. | |||
[http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/apasim/pubs/AIAA_Paper_2002-4599.pdf Full Report] | |||
=2001= | |||
== April == | |||
=== Aerobot airdata measurement for planetary exploration === | |||
Emmanuel Geneste and Dave Barnes | |||
Department of Computer Science, | |||
University of Wales, Aberystwyth | |||
'''Abstract''':For those planets and moons that support an atmosphere (e.g. Mars, Venus, Titan and Jupiter), | |||
flying robots, or aerobots, are likely to provide a practical solution to the problem of extended | |||
planetary surface coverage for terrain mapping, and surface/sub-surface composition surveying. Not | |||
only could such devices be used for sub-orbital mapping of terrain regions, but they could be used | |||
also to transport and deploy science packages or even microrovers at different geographically separate | |||
land sites[...] | |||
[http://users.aber.ac.uk/dpb/timr_01.pdf Full Report] | |||
[http://robotics.estec.esa.int/ASTRA/Astra2002/Papers/astra2002_2.5a-3.pdf Full Report] | |||
[[Category:Development]] | [[Category:Development]] | ||