uWSC Aircraft Simulator: A Gazebo-based model for uncrewed weight-shift control aircraft flight simulation
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Abstract
Weight-shift control (WSC) microlights are a class of aircraft that maneuver by manipulating a mass attached to deforming flexible wings, which are favoured by many recreational pilots due to their simple mechanical structure, superior low-speed maneuverability, positive aerodynamic stability, and capability to operate on rugged terrains with minimal infrastructure requirements for take-off and landing. However, the dependency on human-powered control restricts their effective payload and mission scope. Here, we present an uncrewed weight-shift control (uWSC) aircraft simulator model developed within the open-source robotics simulator Gazebo. The aim of the model is to spur further study of weight-shift aircraft as a new class of uncrewed aerial systems. The model’s physical properties are based upon an uncrewed electrically powered hang-glider prototype. The longitudinal and lateral positive static aerodynamic stability of the flexible hang-glider wing is approximated by a rigid wing consisting of multiple joined sections. The performance of the uWSC aircraft model is benchmarked against data captured from real weight-shift aircraft flight tests. Results indicate that the simulator model provides a suitable approximation of real weight-shift aircraft flight. The simulator’s capabilities in emulating weight-shift control mechanisms in flight is indicative of its utility in bridging higher-level flight controller design with lower-level weight-shift control dynamics, opening new directions towards the autonomous and semi-autonomous operations of uWSC by allowing quick testing for design and prototype innovation and improvement.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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