Landing gear

About: Landing gear is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3403 publications have been published within this topic receiving 25370 citations. The topic is also known as: landing gear & gear.

Aircraft landing gear compression rate monitor

Abstract: A system for use in monitoring, measuring, computing and displaying the rate of compression of aircraft landing gear struts experienced while aircraft are executing either normal or hard landing events. A high speed computer attached to high speed cameras, or range-finders, mounted in relation to each of the landing gear struts are used to monitor, measure and record the landing gear compression rates and aircraft touch-down vertical velocities experienced by landing gear struts, as the aircraft landing gear initially comes into contact with the ground. The system also determines through landing gear strut compression rates if aircraft landing limitations have been exceeded.

Control system for electrically-operated trailer landing gear

Abstract: A powered landing gear drive system for a trailer for selectively extending and retracting the landing gear legs of the trailer. An electric motor is powered by a battery carried by a tractor or by the trailer and provides the power for an electric motor. A control system is provided as a security measure to permit limited, coded entry access to the system, and motor operating parameters are sensed to prevent exceeding operating limits of the system. The powered landing gear system can be provided as original equipment, or it can be retrofitted to existing trailers to permit powered landing gear operation.

Low-cost shuttle-derived space station

Abstract: The space station of the present invention makes use of a modified space shuttle orbiter vehicle to provide a pre-assembled pre-tested, modular space station. The modified orbiter vehicle has all the equipment need for manned launch, re-entry and landing removed. The modified orbiter vehicle carries a pressurized laboratory module, a solar power system, and docking apparatus. The modified orbiter vehicle provides instrumentation, attitude control, communications, and life support systems. Another configuration includes an external fuel tank permanently attached to the modified orbiter vehicle. In either configuration, all equipment is fully integrated, installed and checked out on the ground before the launch in a single unmanned launch. Since the modified orbiter vehicle remains in space as a part of the space station the complexity and weight of the orbiter can be reduced by removing the systems that are required only for manned ascent, re-entry and landing, such as wings, tail, body flap, thermal protection tiles, landing gear, some of the avionics, some crew related controls, displays and hardware.

The Stochastic Robust Model Predictive Control of Shimmy Vibration in Aircraft Landing Gears

Abstract: This paper considers robust model predictive control (RMPC) methods for a linear parameter varying (LPV) system that has both probabilistic uncertain and time-varying parameters. The parameters are considered to be measured online. In this regard, the aircraft landing gear system is considered as an LPV system whose parameters variation can affect both stability and performance. By transforming this system into a convex combination of linear time-invariant vertices form with the tensor-product (TP) model transformation method, the landing gear system is represented as a polytopic linear parameter-varying system. A computationally efficient RMPC control signal law is calculated online by carrying out the convex optimization involving linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) in MPC which leads to finding the solutions that can guarantee the closed-loop robust stability and performance. The proposed controller can effectively suppress the shimmy vibration of the landing gear with variable taxiing velocity and wheel caster length, also with the probabilistic uncertain torsional spring stiffness.