Multiagent Control of Airplane Wing Stability with "Feathers" under the Flexural Torsional Flutter

TL;DR

This paper introduces a multiagent control method using surface-controlled feathers to prevent wing flutter, potentially enabling higher aircraft speeds by damping vibrations more effectively.

Contribution

It presents a novel multiagent control approach with feathers on wings, expanding vibration damping capabilities and increasing maximum flight speed without flutter.

Findings

The approach effectively prevents flexural-torsional vibrations.

Timing is identified as a key limitation in vibration damping.

Experiments validate the theoretical advantages of the multiagent control method.

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel method for the prevention of the unbounded oscillation of an aircraft wings under the flexural torsion flutter. The paper introducing the novel multiagent method for control of an aircraft wing, assuming that the wing surface consists of controlled "feathers" (agents). Theoretical evaluation of the approach demonstrates its high ability to prevent flexural-torsional vibrations of an aircraft. Since the model expands the possibilities for damping the wing oscillations, which potentially allows an increase in aircraft speed without misgiving of flutter. The study exhibits that timing is the main limitation of dampening vibrations. A new method for controlling an aircraft wing is suggested to increase the maximal flight speed of an aircraft without flutter occurrence via a novel model of the bending-torsional vibrations of an airplane wing with controlled feathers on its surface and new control laws based on the Speed-Gradient methodology. Provided experiments demonstrate the theoretical and advantages of the multiagent approach to "feathers" movement control.