The objective of this paper is to describe the miniaturization and control of an unmanned tiltwing *** geometric miniaturization and mechanical realization,a lightweight design based on carbon fiber tubes,polystyrene ...
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The objective of this paper is to describe the miniaturization and control of an unmanned tiltwing *** geometric miniaturization and mechanical realization,a lightweight design based on carbon fiber tubes,polystyrene rigid foam and 3D-printed parts is *** attitude controller is adopted from an existing full-scale unmanned tiltwing aircraft and follows the control strategy of Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion(INDI).The effects of the miniaturization,including low mass inertia combined with comparatively large aerodynamic surfaces,require a re-evaluation of INDI-based *** to the aircraft's rear-positioned center of gravity,the modeled control ability of the main motors is adapted and explicitly considered in the controller *** integrity of both,construction and controller,is validated in simulations and flight tests.
Airborne Wind Energy is an emerging technology that harvests wind energy with flightsystems connected via a tether to a generator at the ground. A flying wing promises a high energy output during the power generation...
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For unmanned aerial systems with a maximum take-off mass of up to 25 kg, simple pitot-static tubes are predominantly used to measure the aerodynamic speed. In this work, the influence of rain on this measurement ...
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This paper presents a safety gateway for a medical evacuation eVTOL drone that determines the feasibility of a fully automated mission before uploading the mission to the onboard flightcontrol computer. Software cons...
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This paper investigates how the calculation of sepa-ration distances from ADS-B data received by a single receiver is affected by the asynchronously sent ADS-B data from different aircraft. Therefore, unsynchronized A...
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This paper introduces and investigates several methods of filtering and delay synchronization in incremental control law structures. It is shown that proper filter and delay synchronization is of great importance for ...
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This paper addresses the need for standard operating procedures in the prototyping phase and final certification of unmanned aerial systems and optionally piloted vehicles. The proposed approach adopts object-oriented...
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Harvesting wind energy is promising for extending long-endurance flights,which can be greatly facilitated by a flight technique called dynamic *** presented study is concerned with generating model-based trajectories ...
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Harvesting wind energy is promising for extending long-endurance flights,which can be greatly facilitated by a flight technique called dynamic *** presented study is concerned with generating model-based trajectories with smooth control histories for dynamic soaring maneuvers exploiting wind *** desired smoothness is achieved by introducing a trigonometric series parameterization for the controls,which are formulated with respect to the normalized ***,the periodicity of the trigonometric functions is leveraged to facilitate the connection of cycles and streamline the problem *** relying on a specified wind profile,a freefinal-time quadratic programming-based control strategy is developed for the online correction of the flight trajectory,which requires only the instant wind *** and online numerical studies show the trade-off to achieve the smoothness and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in a varying wind field.
Runtime monitoring of flightcontrol is an alternate approach for safety assurance, if the absence of design errors in the software of a nominal control law is not fully assured during design. A backup controller is e...
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This study is dedicated to the development of a direct optimal control-based algorithm for trajectory optimization problems that accounts for the closed-loop stability of the trajectory tracking error dynamics already...
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This study is dedicated to the development of a direct optimal control-based algorithm for trajectory optimization problems that accounts for the closed-loop stability of the trajectory tracking error dynamics already during the ***,the trajectory is designed such that the Linear Time-Varying(LTV)dynamic system,describing the controller’s error dynamics,is stable,while additionally the desired optimality criterion is optimized and all enforced constraints on the trajectory are *** is achieved by means of a Lyapunov stability analysis of the LTV dynamics within the optimization problem using a time-dependent,quadratic Lyapunov function *** care is taken with regard to ensuring the correct definiteness of the ensuing matrices within the Lyapunov stability analysis,specifically considering a numerically stable formulation of these in the numerical *** developed algorithm is applied to a trajectory design problem for which the LTV system is part of the path-following error dynamics,which is required to be *** main benefit of the proposed scheme in this context is that the designed trajectory trades-off the required stability and robustness properties of the LTV dynamics with the optimality of the trajectory already at the design phase and thus,does not produce unstable optimal trajectories the system must follow in the real application.
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