Giuliani, M.; Dimino, I.; Ameduri, S.; Pecora, R.; Concilio, A. Status and Perspectives of Commercial Aircraft Morphing. Biomimetics2022, 7, 11.
Giuliani, M.; Dimino, I.; Ameduri, S.; Pecora, R.; Concilio, A. Status and Perspectives of Commercial Aircraft Morphing. Biomimetics 2022, 7, 11.
Giuliani, M.; Dimino, I.; Ameduri, S.; Pecora, R.; Concilio, A. Status and Perspectives of Commercial Aircraft Morphing. Biomimetics2022, 7, 11.
Giuliani, M.; Dimino, I.; Ameduri, S.; Pecora, R.; Concilio, A. Status and Perspectives of Commercial Aircraft Morphing. Biomimetics 2022, 7, 11.
Abstract
In a previous paper, the authors dealt with the current showstoppers for morphing systems and with the reasons that have inhibited their commercial applicability. In this work, the authors ex-press a critical vision of the current status of the proposed architectures and the needs that should be accomplished to make them viable for installation onboard of commercial aircraft. The distinc-tion is essential because military and civil issues and necessities are very different, and both the solutions and difficulties to be overcome are widely diverse. Yet, still remaining in the civil seg-ment, there can be other differences, depending on the size of the aircraft, from large jets to com-muters or general aviation, in turn classifiable in tourism, acrobatic, ultralight and so on, each with their own peculiarities. Therefore, the paper wants to try to trace a common technology de-nominator, if possible, and envisage a future perspective of actual applications.
Keywords
Morphing Wings; Adaptive Structures; Control Systems; Embedded Kinematics; Distributed Actuator and Sensor Networks
Subject
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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