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This book demonstrates the potential of the blended wing body (BWB) concept for significant improvement in both fuel efficiency and noise reduction and addresses the considerable challenges raised for control engineers because of characteristics like open-loop instability, large flexible structure, and slow control surfaces. This text describes state-of-the-art and novel modeling and control design approaches for the BWB aircraft under consideration. The expert contributors demonstrate how exceptional robust control performance can be achieved despite such stringent design constraints as guaranteed handling qualities, reduced vibration, and the minimization of the aircraft’s structural loads during maneuvers and caused by turbulence. As a result, this innovative approach allows the building of even lighter aircraft structures, and thus results in considerable efficiency improvements per passenger kilometer. The treatment of this large, complex, parameter-dependent industrial control problem highlights relevant design issues and provides a relevant case study for modeling and control engineers in many adjacent disciplines and applications. Modeling and Control for a Blended Wing Body Aircraft presents research results in numeric modeling and control design for a large, flexible, civil BWB aircraft in the pre-design stage as developed within the EU FP7 research project ACFA 2020. It is a useful resource for aerospace and control engineers as it shows the complete BWB aircraft modeling and control design process, carried out with the most recent tools and techniques available. presents research results in numeric modeling and control design for a large, flexible, civil BWB aircraft in the pre-design stage as developed within the EU FP7 research project ACFA 2020. It is a useful resource for aerospace and control engineers as it shows the complete BWB aircraft modeling and control design process, carried out with the most recent tools and techniques available. Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.

Engineering. --- Control. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Computer simulation. --- Astronautics. --- Ingénierie --- Simulation par ordinateur --- Astronautique --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Aeronautics. --- Aircraft drafting. --- Aircraft. --- Aircraft drawing --- Airplanes --- Drafting, Aircraft --- Drawing, Aircraft --- Aerostation --- Air navigation --- Aviation --- Drafting --- Aerospace engineering. --- Control engineering. --- Mechanical drawing --- Communication and traffic --- Aerodynamics --- Airships --- Astronautics --- Balloons --- Flight --- Flying-machines --- Control and Systems Theory. --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Aeronautical engineering --- Engineering --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Automation --- Programmable controllers

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This open access book presents research and evaluation results of the Austrian flagship project "Connecting Austria," illustrating the wide range of research needs and questions that arise when semi-automated truck platooning is deployed in Austria. The work presented is introduced in the context of work in similar research areas around the world. This interdisciplinary research effort considers aspects of engineering, road-vehicle and infrastructure technologies, traffic management and optimization, traffic safety, and psychology, as well as potential economic effects.

Trucks --- Traffic flow. --- Fuel consumption. --- Traffic engineering --- Traffic surveys --- Highway capacity --- Traffic density --- Traffic volume --- Commercial vehicles --- Materials handling --- Motor vehicles --- Transportation, Automotive --- Automobile trucks --- Lorries (Motor vehicles) --- Motor-trucks --- Truck Platooning --- Optimal Control --- Eco-Driving --- Distributed MPC --- Heavy-duty Vehicle Control --- Vehicle-to-X --- Commercial-Vehicle Energy Efficiency --- Traffic Safety --- Cooperative Platooning --- Computational Fluid Dynamics