Abstract:The tilt-rotor aircraft combines the capabilities of vertical takeoff and landing with efficient high-speed cruising, making it suitable for short-haul low-altitude transportation. However, the overall design of existing tilt-rotor aircraft does not consider the safety of forced landings during short-haul transport, and both the aerodynamic layout and control strategies need optimization. This paper introduces a novel dual-axis tilt-rotor aircraft. By comprehensively considering the integration of rotor blades and multiple flight modes, the overall layout of the aircraft is optimized. This enables the aircraft to perform a forced landing in fixed-wing mode on a single lane of a ground roadway with minimal impact on ground traffic, while still carrying a sufficiently large payload. Furthermore, a six-degree-of-freedom dynamic and kinematic model of the aircraft has been established. A control analysis of the six-degree-of-freedom flight under the new layout of the aircraft has been conducted, and a new control strategy has been proposed. The feasibility of the new control strategy has been verified through Simulink dynamic simulation. The research results indicate that the designed aircraft improves aerodynamic efficiency under a reasonable layout and can fully leverage the advantages of rotor blade integration, exhibiting good control performance. Overall, the aircraft design scheme can provide a reference for the development of tilt-rotor aircraft designed for low-altitude operations.