25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-6.4.1

FLIGHT CONTROL WITH MINIATURE TRAILING EDGE EFFECTORS

S. R. Bieniawski, I. M. Kroo
Stanford Univ., USA

Keywords: Flight Control, Flutter, Novel Actuators, Distributed Control

Recent developments in actuator technology have resulted in small, simple devices capable of generating control forces for flight vehicles. Two experiments demonstrate the potential of such devices. First, flutter of a flexible wing is suppressed. Second, a novel control architecture is developed and implemented on a remotely piloted flight vehicle.

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