Study of the development of Tilt-rortor aircraft
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https://doi.org/10.46842/ipn.cien.v28n2a07Keywords:
Hybrid flight, Control, UAV, Tilt-rotorAbstract
The tilting rotor aircraft is a hybrid design that combines the fixed -wing flight modes and a rotating wing, thus combines the flight advantages of airplanes and helicopters. This article presents the description of hybrid aircraft in flight mode and the state of the art of the development of hybrid aircraft, and control schemes. Different mechanical models of aircraft are exposed that include mechanisms for the transition of the rotating wing flight to a fixed wing and vice versa. Also, the mathematical model commonly used in the reported works is formulated, as well as the proposed control algorithms approach focused on the stability of the aircraft in their flight mode transition.
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