Integrated Design of Airframe and Stabilizing Controller in Wing-in-Ground Effect Aircraft

Wing in-Ground effect aircrafts have gained much attention during these thirty years because of their high efficiency. The aircrafts require active stabilizing controllers for safety maneuvering, which cause difficulties in designmg. In this paper, we apply simultaneous optimization technique to design Wing-in-Ground aircraft. It is shown that the simultaneous optimization on parameters of aerodynamics design and of stabilizing controller can give superior design to conventional methods. An example is given to illustrate the procedure of design and the effectiveness of simultaneous optimization.