Research on Flight Control of a Smart Skin Aircraft

The smart skin which embedded hundreds of micro effectors was used in an advanced aircraft to generate moments for stabilization and maneuver,by augmenting or replacing conventional control surfaces.In this paper a tailless aircraft was used as a model.Its dynamics was derived and the state-feedback controller was designed.The dynamic simulation results indicate that the smart skin studied in the paper is able to maintain a sufficient authority to control the tailless aircraft in a low-rate maneuvering.