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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022
Filed:
May. 22, 2018
United States of America As Represented BY the Administrator of the Nasa, Washington, DC (US);
Nhan Thanh Nguyen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Bi-Wen Ting, Los Altos, CA (US);
United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Processes for real-time drag optimization control for aeroelastic wing structures are disclosed. Adaptive reconfiguration of aircraft control surfaces by an online real-time drag optimization control approach to reduce or minimize drag may reduce the amount of fuel that is consumed by the aircraft during flight. The input data may be obtained from sensor information pertaining to the wing deflection and aircraft state information. The optimization approach may compute an optimal solution of the distributed flight control surface deflections that are integrated in a flight path angle flight control system.