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Everything about Thrust vectoring
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Thrust vectoring, also known as thrust vector control (TVC), is the ability of an aircraft, rocket or other vehicle to manipulate the direction of the thrust from its engine(s) or motor(s) to control the attitude or angular velocity of the vehicle. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Thrust vectoringA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Fixed-Time Control of a Novel Thrust-Vectoring Aerial Manipulator via High-Order Fully Actuated System ApproachInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Optimal pitch thrust-vector angle and benefits for all flight regimesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Counterflow thrust vectoring of supersonic jetsCited 78 times
- Go sideways: Gimbaled thrustA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Propelling nozzleA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The deflection of the exhaust nozzle(s) of a jet engine or rocket so as to alter the direction in which the engine produces thrust and help control the attitude and/or direction of flight of the vehicle using the engine.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Counterflow thrust vectoring of supersonic jets
Trajectory tracking control of thrust-vectoring UAVs
Jet thrust vectoring using a miniature fluidic oscillator
Thrust-vectoring schemes for electric propulsion systems: A review
Vectoring Thrust in Multiaxes Using Confined Shear Layers
Numerical Simulation of Fluidic Thrust-Vectoring
Evaluation of fluidic thrust vectoring nozzle via thrust pitching angle and thrust pitching moment
Perching trajectory optimization using aerodynamic and thrust vectoring
🆕 Influential since 2022
Fixed-Time Control of a Novel Thrust-Vectoring Aerial Manipulator via High-Order Fully Actuated System Approach
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control
Techniques of Fluidic Thrust Vectoring in Jet Engine Nozzles: A Review
Fluidic Thrust Vector Control of Aerospace Vehicles: State-of-the-Art Review and Future Prospects
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Optimal pitch thrust-vector angle and benefits for all flight regimesGlenn B. Gilyard · 2000
- 📕Effects of internal yaw-vectoring devices on the static performance of a pitch-vectoring nonaxisymmetric convergent-divergent nozzleScott C. Asbury · 1993
- 📕A closed-form trim solution yielding minimum trim drag for airplanes with multiple longitudinal-control effectorsKenneth H. Goodrich · 1989
- 📕Effects of the installation and operation of jet-exhaust yaw vanes on the longitudinal and lateral-directional characteristics of the F-14 airplaneDavid E. Reubush · 1987
- 📕Static thrust-vectoring performance of nonaxisymmetric convergent-divergent nozzles with post-exit yaw vanesRobert J. Foley · 1991
- 📕Flight testing the X-36--the test pilot's perspectiveLaurence A. Walker · 1997
- 📕Electro-mechanical actuatorKenneth E. Schreiner · 1996
- 📕High-Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV) longitudinal controllerAaron J. Ostroff · 1994
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