Journal of Aerospace Engineering
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EISSN:1943-5525|ISSN:0893-1321|Disc:The Journal of Aerospace Engineering promotes the implementation and development of space and aerospace technologies and their transfer to other civil engineering applications. Topics of interest include aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, wind tunnel testing of buildings and structures, aerospace structures and materials, advanced composite materials, dynamics and control, real-time data acquisition, space engineering and construction, lunar base construction, field and remote sensing, and robotics|Priority:6|Publisher:American Society of Civil Engineers|
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Incremental Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Aircraft Attitude Tracking
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)An incremental nonlinear model predictive control (INMPC) strategy is developed in this paper for aircraft attitude tracking control under external disturbances. To reduce the dependency on accurate system dynamics, an ... -
Attitude Control Method for Liquid-Filled Flexible Spacecraft Based on Wave-Based Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A spacecraft often consists of a main rigid body, flexible appendages, and liquid loads such as fuel. Precise positioning and fast stabilization are crucial, but the complex interactions among rigid, flexible, and liquid ... -
Design, Analysis, and Optimization of Negative Stiffness in a Kresling-Origami Rod-Hinged Truss
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Negative stiffness is a unique mechanical phenomenon that arises during the elastic snap-through process after structural instability. It promotes motion, making it particularly advantageous in various specific applications ... -
Single-Pass Imaging Planning with a Hybrid Genetic Tabu Search Algorithm for Agile Earth Observation Satellites
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Constellations of agile satellites can perform more tasks with fewer resources than can conventional satellites. However, for high-density targets in complex tasks, pairing satellites and targets in each orbit is a challenging ... -
Fuzzy Adaptive Antidisturbance Control Method for a Class of Lateral Thrust–Aerodynamic Force Composite Hypersonic Flight Vehicles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper investigates the problem of lateral thrust–aerodynamic force composite control for a class of hypersonic flight vehicles (HFVs) suffering from time-varying actuator failures and associated multisource uncertainty. ... -
Rotating Deorbit with Constant Thrust for Tethered Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Tethered towing is viewed as a promising debris removal method, with collision avoidance with debris posing the key challenge. A novel orbit transfer scheme, incorporating spin-up maneuver, rotating flight, and momentum ... -
Optimal Impulsive Formation Reconfiguration near Halo Orbits Using Geometric Configuration Invariants
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper focuses on the relative motion and optimal impulsive formation reconfiguration near halo orbits. By applying the Floquet theorem, the time-varying system is simplified through a coordinate transformation, followed ... -
Fluid–Thermal–Structural Interactions on a Supersonic Two-Dimensional Intake
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study aims to enhance the verification database for fluid–thermal–structural interaction (FTSI) experiments and develop a comprehensive methodology for parameter measurement in such tests. A complex S-shaped wedge ... -
Finite Modal Vibration Control and Actuator/Sensor Analysis for Rigid Center–Flexible Appendage Satellites
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper proposes a novel vibration control method for rigid center–flexible appendage satellites considering actuator/sensor deployments. Initially, we derive the satellite model in planar motion and analyze the impact ... -
Experimental Study of the Rotor–Arm Interaction Noise in Single and Contra-Rotating Rotors of eVTOL Aircraft
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The installation effects of arms connected to single and contra-rotating rotors of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft are of great importance for noise radiation in the far field. In this study, ... -
Enabling Autonomous Formation Flight of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Two-Stage Switching Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper reports on in-flight tests conducted to evaluate a method aimed at controlling the formation of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a leader-follower configuration. The study introduces a two-stage ... -
Effect of the Leading-Edge Tubercles on the Aerodynamic Performance of Transonic Cascades under High Static Pressure Rise
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Under high static pressure rise conditions, flow separation in transonic compressor cascades is severe, exacerbating the performance degradation of the compressor cascades. Biomimetic flow control techniques, as a category ... -
Space-Based Noncooperative Orbit Determination Considering Observation Platform Position Error
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The enhancement of space-based space situational awareness capability is crucial for coping with the increasingly crowded space environment due to the unique advantageous observation conditions, which requires the improvement ... -
Effects of Propeller Size and Position on the Performance of a UAV Wing in a Distributed Propulsion System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Distributed propulsion (DP) systems have gained attention in the design of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for their potential to enhance flight performance and operational versatility. By dividing thrust generation across ... -
Nonlinear Velocity Control Strategy and Trajectory Planning for Parafoils Using a Restricted 6-DOF Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The flexibility of parafoils introduces hysteresis and issues of insufficient control force in their management. Traditional approaches that employ geometric curves for segmented trajectory planning fail to capture certain ... -
Research on the Noise Reduction Mechanisms of Bionic Airfoils with Different Serrated Trailing-Edge Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Inspired by the silent flight capability of owls, the serrated trailing-edge design is recognized as an effective method to control trailing-edge interference noise arising from turbulent boundary layers. Based on the ... -
Antinoise Aerodynamic Parameter Estimation Approach for Hypersonic Vehicle Using Dynamic Equation and Flight Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The flight data of hypersonic vehicle contain real aerodynamic characteristics that cannot be obtained from ground numerical simulation tests. Offline aerodynamic knowledge extraction based on flight data is meaningful but ... -
Improved Sliding Mode Control for the Proof Mass Capture of Gravitational Wave Detection Spacecraft
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)To ensure that the gravitational wave detection spacecraft can successfully enter science mode, it is particularly important to control the proof mass to gradually be captured in the center of the cavity in a very short ... -
Design of a Finite-Time Full-Order Distributed Function Observers for Interconnected Formation Flight Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Formation flying increasingly emerged as a vanguard force in executing diverse missions. This paper provides a finite-time distributed state observer for interconnected formation flight systems by information exchange. ... -
Experimental Studies on Droplet-Size Distribution in a Reverse-Flow Combustor of a Two-Staged Fuel Injector
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The ultracompact combustion chamber is a promising propulsion system for low-altitude, miniaturized aircraft, with fuel injection characteristics directly influencing the flame stability limit, a critical factor for ...