Manuel Pusch

TL;DR: The paper presents the control design approaches for the European research project FLEXOP, which aims to develop and apply active flutter suppression and load alleviation techniques on an unmanned flying aircraft demonstrator.

TL;DR: The model-based flight control system design for a highly flexible flutter demonstrator, developed in the European FLEXOP project, is presented and is verified in an extensive simulation campaign using a high fidelity simulator.

TL;DR: A novel approach is presented for designing H2-optimal blending vectors for the control of individual aeroelastic modes by jointly compute the interdependent input and output blending vectors, where an explicit mode decoupling can be considered.

TL;DR: The paper details the research and corresponding implementation and testing steps of the FLEXOP demonstrator aircraft, which is built to validate the mathematical modelling, flight control design and implementation side of active flutter mitigation within the EU funded project.