Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a rapidly expanding area of research due to their versatile usage, such as inspection of places inaccessible to humans and surveillance missions. This creates a demand for a reliable model that can accurately describe the dynamics of the system in order to improve the performance of the vehicle. System identification is a common tool used for the modelling of a system and is essential for developing an accurate and reliable model. The aim of this master's thesis is to develop an accurate non-linear grey-box model, with six degrees of freedom, of a fixed-wing UAV as well as a linearized version of the model. After a literature study a suitable model structure with sixstates and 28 parameters was chosen. The moment of inertia matrix is estimated separately using physical experiments,and the other parameters, related to the aerodynamic coefficients of the UAV, are estimated using flight experiments. Flight experiments are designed in order to capture all of the system dynamics and data was collected accordingly. The parameters are estimated using a prediction error method, which requires the solution of an optimal control problem. The derived models of the UAV are compared to each other and evaluated using model validation. In conclusion, the non-linear grey-box model shows great potential in becoming an accurate model, but further investigation and refining of the model is necessary.


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    Titel :

    System Identification of a Fixed-Wing UAV Using a Prediction Error Method


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Hochschulschrift


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629



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