Flight Dynamics and System Identification for Modern Feedback Control

List of figures

1.1. Flight control architecture block diagram 3

1.2. Forces acting on an avian wing section, as viewed from a body-fixed reference frame 5

2.1. An annotated generic aircraft 16

2.2. Ornithopter flight test platform 19

2.3. Ornithopter planform geometries 21

2.4. Custom avionics board used to record flight data 24

2.5. Ensemble averages of flight data with two standard deviation error bounds 26

2.6. Power spectrum of flight data 27

2.7. Ornithopter mass distribution contributions 29

2.8. Mass distribution due to wing position variation 30

2.9. Moment of inertia rates due to flapping between 0 Hz and 10 Hz 32

2.10. Representative thrust and lift measurements while flapping at 4.7 Hz 33

2.11. Ornithopter open-loop flight dynamics ...