Elena P. Moreno

Flight Validation of a Global Singularity-Free Aerodynamic Model for Flight Control of Tail Sitters

This work validates through flight tests a previously developed wide-envelope singularity-free aerodynamic framework, called ϕ-theory, for modeling dual-engine tail-sitting flying-wing vehicles for optimization-based control. The ϕ-theory methodology imposes a specific geometry on aerodynamic coeffi…