Flexible airplanes
One of my research interests are the aeroelasticity and flight dynamics of very flexible airplanes. (like NASA Helios). For these airplanes, the structural deflections during the flight are so large that they strongly affects the flight characteristics. This can potentially lead to a crash, as it happened to NASA Helios.
During my master degree, I’ve studied the flight dynamics of these kind of airplanes and developed a toolbox called AeroFlex for simulating them.
You can find more about this research in the AeroFlex GitHub repository.
Publications
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Cardoso-Ribeiro, F.L., Paglione, P., da Silva, R.G.A., de Sousa, M.S. AeroFlex: A toolbox for studying the flight dynamics of highly flexible airplanes. CONEM 2012.
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Cardoso-Ribeiro, F.L., Paglione, P., da Silva, R.G.A. Stability analysis of a highly flexible airplane. CONEM 2012.
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Cardoso-Ribeiro, F.L. Dinâmica de voo de aeronaves muito flexíveis, Master thesis, ITA, 2011.
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de Sousa, M.S., Paglione, P., Cardoso-Ribeiro, F.L., da Silva, R.G.A., Use of Universal Integral Regulator to Control the Flight Dynamics of Flexible Airplanes, COBEM 2013.
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de Sousa, M.S., Paglione, P., da Silva, R.G.A., Cardoso-Ribeiro, F.L., Cunha Jr., S.S. Mathematical model of one flexible transport category aircraft. In: Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology. Accepted for publication (2016).