Aircraft Design and Testing of FLEXOP Unmanned Flying Demonstrator to Test Load Alleviation and Flutter Suppression of High Aspect Ratio Flexible Wings

Christian Roessler, Philipp Stahl, Franz Sendner, Andreas Hermanutz, Jurij Sodja, Roeland De Breuker, Christos Koimtzoglou, Dimitrios Kotinis, P. Georgopoulos, More Authors

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Abstract

The idea of the EU funded FLEXOP project is to raise efficiency of a currently existing wing by derivative solution with higher aspect ratio at no excess structural weight. In order to enable such a resulting highly flexible wing the project goal is to develop methods for active suppression of flutter and passive load alleviation. The developed methods will be tested and validated with a UAV flutter demonstrator. The demonstrator is a 7m wingspan, 65kg MTOW UAV equipped with a jet engine. After ground testing, including static load and ground vibration tests the demonstrator will be flown within VLOS with three different sets of wings: One baseline rigid wing, one wing tailored for passive load alleviation and one very flexible wing to test active flutter control. The paper describes the design methods of the demonstrator and gives an overview about the planned tests on ground and in flight to validate the flutter prediction models. A special emphasis is on in flight wing shape measurement with an installed fiber brag system.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAIAA Scitech 2019 Forum
Subtitle of host publication7-11 January 2019, San Diego, California, USA
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-62410-578-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
EventAIAA Scitech Forum, 2019 - San Diego, United States
Duration: 7 Jan 201911 Jan 2019
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/MSCITECH19

Conference

ConferenceAIAA Scitech Forum, 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period7/01/1911/01/19
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