Journal ArticleDOI
Airborne Lidar for Automatic Feedforward Control of Turbulent In-Flight Phenomena
TLDR
In this article, a forward-looking Rayleigh/Mie Lidar sensor is used to measure the airspeed in front of the aircraft for automatic control of turbulence in-flight phenomena.Abstract:
Design, development, installation, and flight test of a novel airborne forward-looking lidar sensor are presented, aiming at accurately and remotely measuring the airspeed in front of the aircraft for automatic control of turbulence in-flight phenomena. The development is driven by the stringent requirements of the capability of measuring airspeed at cruise altitude, in clear air, and at all weather environments with the required precision. The sensor was installed in an A340-300 testbed for flight testing, inside a dedicated fairing in a forward-looking configuration. The flight-test measurements proved that the direct-detection Rayleigh/Mie lidar is capable of detecting the wind speed under flight-test conditions up to 39,000 ft in clear air, rain, dense clouds, and ice rain. A measurement range of 50 m is achieved for the ultraviolet lidar at a 60 Hz update rate and at a standard deviation of line-of-sight speed as low as 1.0―1.5 m/s. Those parameters, as required for forward-looking automatic control sensors, are a unique basis for the usage of such a remote sensor for automatic turbulence control.read more
Citations
More filters
Book
Survey of Applications of Active Control Technology for Gust Alleviation and New Challenges for Lighter-Weight Aircraft
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a historical survey and assessment of the state of the art in the modeling and application of active control to aircraft encountering atmospheric disturbances in flight, with particular emphasis on applications that enable weight reduction in aircraft by mitigating the effects of atmospheric disturbances.
Journal ArticleDOI
Model Predictive Control for Gust Load Alleviation
Hans-Gerd Giesseler,Michael Kopf,Paolo Varutti,Paolo Varutti,Timm Faulwasser,Timm Faulwasser,Rolf Findeisen +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a model predictive control approach that accounts for look ahead measurements of incoming gust disturbances via light detection and ranging (LIDAR) systems is proposed to alleviate gust loads at critical locations of the airframe.
Journal ArticleDOI
Airborne forward-pointing UV Rayleigh lidar for remote clear air turbulence detection: system design and performance.
TL;DR: Flight test measurements demonstrate this unique lidar system being able to resolve air density fluctuations occurring in light-to-moderate CAT at 5 km or moderate CAT at 10 km distance, and a scaling of the determined stability and noise characteristics shows that such performance is adequate for an application in commercial air transport.
Journal ArticleDOI
Gust Load Alleviation on a Large Transport Airplane
TL;DR: In this article, an adaptive feed-forward controller that uses the preview information of the gust sensed by an onboard alpha probe is designed to operate the ailerons symmetrically to alleviate the wing-root bending moment induced by the gust.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
Combined Feedback and LIDAR-Based Feedforward Active Load Alleviation
Nicolas Fezans,Hans-Dieter Joos +1 more
TL;DR: A combined feedback and feedforward active load alleviation system and its associated design and tuning methodology that remains very easy to use and tune, thanks to a limited number of parameters that can easily be interpreted physically and that exhibit only very little and very predictable couplings.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Remote sensing of atmospheric wind velocities using solid-state and CO/sub 2/ coherent laser systems
R.M. Huffaker,R.M. Hardesty +1 more
TL;DR: Coherent lidar/laser radar systems have been used for the remote measurement of atmospheric wind velocity since 1966 as discussed by the authors and have been applied to detection and tracking of aircraft wake vortices, measurement of airborne wind fields during the space shuttle takeoff and landing, airborne wind shear detection, ground-based airport microburst windshear monitoring, meteorological research, and environmental monitoring.
PatentDOI
Circle-to-line interferometer optical system
TL;DR: Results imply that a high resolution interferometer using five orders and a CCD detector would have a sensitivity 87.5 x greater than is presently achieved with those used to observe the winds in the upper atmosphere.
Journal ArticleDOI
Coherent laser radar in Europe
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of coherent laser radar with 10 /spl mu/m and shorter wavelength lasers is presented, including heterodyne studies of signal statistics and fluctuations, and detailed experimental and theoretical work on signal amplification and autodyne arrangements with light reinjected into the laser cavity.
Journal ArticleDOI
The AWIATOR airborne LIDAR turbulence sensor
Nikolaus Peter Schmitt,Wolfgang Rehm,Thomas Dipl.-Ing. Pistner,Paul Zeller,Hermann Diehl,Peter Navé +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the development and first flight tests are described of a short pulse direct measuring UV LIDAR for the measurement of gusts, turbulence and potentially wake vortices.