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Jasmine Rimani, Nicole Viola and Antonio Saluzzi
In this new era of space exploration, reusability and lower environmental impact are critical drivers in pursuing innovative solutions for access to space. One of these leading solutions is the Space Rider, a European reusable space plane with the abilit...
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Stefano Cacciola, Carlo E.D. Riboldi and Matteo Arnoldi
Notwithstanding the interest in the three-surface concept shown by aircraft designers, this configuration was not thoroughly investigated in conjunction with the adoption of two-elevator surfaces, on both canard and tail. In fact, the inclusion of an add...
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Álvaro Gómez-Rodríguez, Alejandro Sanchez-Carmona, Luis García-Hernández and Cristina Cuerno-Rejado
The field of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) is currently undergoing a noteworthy expansion. The diverse types of missions that these aircraft can accomplish, both in military and civil environments, have motivated an increase of interest in the...
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Álvaro Gómez-Rodríguez, Alejandro Sanchez-Carmona, Luis García-Hernández and Cristina Cuerno-Rejado
The field of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) is currently undergoing a noteworthy expansion. The diverse types of missions that these aircraft can accomplish, both in military and civil environments, have motivated an increase of interest in the...
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Jeremy Roussel, Marc Budinger and Laurent Ruet
Helicopter dronization is expanding, for example, the VSR700 project. This leads to the integration of electromechanical actuators (EMAs) into the primary flight control system (PFCS). The PFCS is in charge of controlling the helicopter flight over its f...
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Mohsen Rostami, Julian Bardin, Daniel Neufeld and Joon Chung
In considering aircraft design, it is very important to effectively size the tail configuration for stability and control. Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) focuses on the use of numerical optimization in the design of systems with multiple sub...
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Siwat Suewatanakul, Alessandro Porcarelli, Adam Olsson, Henrik Grimler, Ariel Chiche, Raffaello Mariani and Göran Lindbergh
The manuscript presents the conceptual design phase of an unmanned aerial vehicle, with the objective of a systems approach towards the integration of a hydrogen fuel-cell system and Li-ion batteries into an aerodynamically efficient platform representat...
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Massimo Posani, Mauro Pontani and Paolo Gasbarri
Reorientation maneuvers represent a key task for large satellites. This work considers a space vehicle with solar panels and reaction wheels as actuation devices. Solar panels are modeled as flexural beams, using the modal decomposition technique. An ine...
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Lorenzo Trainelli, Francesco Salucci, Carlo E. D. Riboldi, Alberto Rolando and Federico Bigoni
The adoption of hybrid-electric aircraft is expected to have a considerable impact on airport operations, with the need of new infrastructural requirements to support electric-powered fleets. In particular, battery-charging requirements shall play a deci...
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Cinzia Amici, Federico Ceresoli, Marco Pasetti, Matteo Saponi, Monica Tiboni and Simone Zanoni
The design of the propulsion system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) demands an inclusive multidisciplinary approach from the earliest design phases, since every design choice strictly affects and is affected by the overall working conditions. This pa...
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Omri Rand and Vladimir Khromov
This paper presents a methodology for the sizing and preliminary analysis of Multi-Prop UAVs. The methodology is founded on design trends that emerge from a vast and unique database that has been collected for such vehicles. The database includes geometr...
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Saad Chahba, Guillaume Krebs, Cristina Morel, Rabia Sehab and Ahmad Akrad
The electric urban air mobility sector has gained significant attraction in public debates, particularly with the proliferation of announcements demonstrating new aerial vehicles and the infrastructure that goes with them. In this context, the developmen...
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Ahmed M. A. Sattar, Abedalkareem Nedal Ghazal, Mohamed Elhakeem, Amgad S. Elansary and Bahram Gharabaghi
In surge protection, low-head profiles are deemed a challenge in pump failure events since they are prone to severe negative pressure surges that require an uneconomical surge vessel volume. A hybrid surge vessel with a dipping tube can provide required ...
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Thomas Planès, Scott Delbecq, Valérie Pommier-Budinger and Emmanuel Bénard
The aircraft environmental control system (ECS) is the second-highest fuel consumer system, behind the propulsion system. To reduce fuel consumption, one research direction intends to replace conventional aircraft with more electric aircraft. Thus, new e...
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Jasmine Rimani, Giordana Bucchioni, Andrea Dan Ryals, Nicole Viola and Stéphanie Lizy-Destrez
The lunar lava tubes are envisioned as possible hosting structures for a human base in the Moon?s equatorial regions, providing shelter from radiations, micrometeoroids, and temperature excursion. A first robotic mission is set to scout the habitability ...
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Veronica Vigna and Massimo Figari
The harvesting of wind energy and its transformation into a thrust force for ship propulsion are gaining in popularity due to the expected benefit in fuel consumption and emission reductions. To exploit these benefits, a proper matching between the conve...
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Carlo E.D. Riboldi, Alberto Rolando and Gregory Regazzoni
When ground observation or signal relaying in the vicinity of an unfriendly operative scenario are of interest, such as for military actions or disaster relief, high-altitude airships (HAA) offer some technical benefits. Featuring a milder cost and highe...
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Nicolas Moebs, Dominik Eisenhut, Evert Windels, Jenny van der Pols and Andreas Strohmayer
In the wake of many climate-friendly initiatives, the aviation sector must become more sustainable. A potential path for regional airliners could be the installation of hybrid-electric powertrains. In this work, a conceptual study design of various power...
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Jean-Charles Maré
A top-down process is proposed and virtually validated for the position control of electromechanical actuators (EMA) that use conventional cascade controllers. It aims at facilitating the early design phases of a project by providing a straightforward me...
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Victor Alulema, Esteban Valencia, Edgar Cando, Victor Hidalgo and Dario Rodriguez
Despite the increasing demand of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for a wide range of civil applications, there are few methodologies for their initial sizing. Nowadays, classical methods, mainly developed for transport aircraft, have been adapted to UAVs...
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