Control and Dynamic Systems V54: System Performance Improvement and Optimization Techniques and Their Applications in Aerospace Systems

Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications, Volume 54: System Performance Improvement and Optimization Techniques and their Applications in Aerospace Systems covers the issue of aerospace system performance and optimization techniques in aerospace systems.

This book is composed of 12 chapters and begins with an examination of the techniques for aircraft conceptual design for mission performance. The succeeding chapters describe the balances and optimized design for aircraft and spacecraft structures through finite element procedures and the application of the knowledge-based system techniques for pilot aiding. These topics are followed by discussions of the optimal sensor placement for on-orbit modal identification experiments; the optimization techniques for helicopter airframe vibrations design; the size reduction techniques for efficient aeroservoelastic model determination; sensitivity analysis of eigendata of aeroelastic systems; and a simplified solution for transient structural dynamic problems with local nonlinearities. Other chapters explore a reduction algorithm for systems with integrators and the techniques for overcoming the difficulty of nonuniqueness of mode shape in modal analysis when random input data are not or cannot be measured. The last chapters consider the combined concepts of Krylov vectors and parameter matching and their application to develop model-reduction algorithms for structural dynamics. These chapters also provide the techniques for the development of new tracking algorithms that would incorporate explicit models of the maneuvering/nonmaneuvering phases of target encounter.

This book will prove useful to aerospace, control, systems, and design engineers.

Contributors

Preface

Techniques for Aircraft Conceptual Design for Mission Performance Comparing Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization Methods

Optimization of Aerospace Structures Using Mathematical Functions for Variable Reduction

Knowledge-Based System Techniques for Pilot Aiding

Techniques for Optimal Sensor Placement for On-Orbit Modal Identification and Correlation of Large Aerospace System Structures

Investigation on the Use of Optimization Techniques for Helicopter Airframe Vibrations Design Studies

Size-Reduction Techniques for the Determination of Efficient Aeroservoelastic Models

Sensitivity Analysis of Eigendata of Aeroelastic Systems

A Simplified General Solution Methodology for Transient Structural Dynamic Problems with Local Nonlinearities

Balanced Systems and Structures: Reduction, Assignment, and Perturbations

Response-Only Measurement Techniques for the Determination of Aerospace System Structural Characteristics

Krylov Vector Methods for Model Reduction and Control of Flexible Structures

Maneuvering Target Tracking: Imaging and Non-Imaging Sensors

Index