The purpose of this project is to develop and implement a control system for a high lift wing with flaps. The wing is intended to be used as a demonstration tool in the subsonic aerodynamics and control courses taught at WPI. Preceding the controller design, it was necessary to make substantial improvements to the flap motion of the wing which had been designed by an earlier MQP team. The objective of the controller was to automatically adjust the flap angle to achieve a desired lift. A LabVIEW interface/data display was also developed for general wind-tunnel demonstrations.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Barber, Justin Gregory
• Reiter, Michael Coltrane

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 00D024M

Advisor

• Olinger, David J.
• Demetriou, Michael A.

Year

• 2000

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright