06.1 - Flight Dynamics and Control (Control & Modelling)
VALIDATION OF A HYBRID LOADS OBSERVER FOR A SUBSCALE TEST AIRCRAFT WITH DISTRIBUTED ELECTRIC PROPULSION
O. Luderer¹, F. Thielecke¹; ¹Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
By taking advantage of potential synergy between the propulsion and the wing, distributed propulsion opens the design space for innovative aircraft configurations. Future aircraft also tend to lighter wings & high aspect ratios, increasing the need of inflight load monitoring. In this paper a model-based hybrid load observer for load estimation is extended for aircraft with distributed propulsion.