Helicopter control, nonlinear equations of motion for helicopters, aerodynamic behavior of the aircraft, NASA, Matlab, DRA Research Puma XW241, aircrafts performances, Prandtl lifting line theory, design of the wing, lift force, NACA airfoils, thesis
Simulations on helicopters are very useful for companies and research labs when one wants to make dynamic analysis, study the trajectory, investigate air combat, prepare pilot training and do many other tasks. The problem is that, regarding helicopters, very few investigations have been conducted and very few accurate programs which model their behavior exist in the scientific literature. Recent ones focus on quite rare flights in practice, as in the work of K. Sibiliski [Sibilski 1998 Sibilski 1999] in the late 90s, or enough incomplete in their modeling as the study lead by students from MH Lowenberg [Bedford and Lowenberg 2003, Bedford and Lowenberg 2004, Rezgui et al. 2006]. Meanwhile, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) developed a program through the software Matlab whose name is "Minimum-Complexity Helicopter Simulation Math Model" (MCHSMM). This model is a flight simulator of a helicopter and has many advantages as it relies on basic data sources and does not require powerful computer tools. So, it allows low cost real-time simulations.
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