The tilt trirotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a novel aircraft that has broad application prospects in transportation. However, the development progress of the aircraft is slow due to the complicated control system and the high cost of the flight experiment. This work attempts to overcome the problem by developing a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation system based on a heavily developed and commercially available flight simulator X-Plane. First, the tilt trirotor UAV configuration and dynamic model are presented, and the parameters are obtained by conducting identification experiments. Second, taking the configuration of the aircraft into account, a control scheme composed of the mode transition strategy, hierarchical controller, and control allocation is proposed. Third, a full-scale flight model of the prototype is designed in X-Plane, and an interface program is completed for connecting the autopilot and X-Plane. Then, the HIL simulation system that consists of the autopilot, ground control station, and X-Plane is developed. Finally, the results of the HIL simulation and flight experiments are presented and compared. The results show that the HIL simulation system can be an efficient tool for verifying the performance of the proposed control scheme for the tilt trirotor UAV. The work contributes to narrowing the gap between theory and practice and provides an alternative verification method for the tilt trirotor UAV.


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    Titel :

    Design and Implementation of a Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation System for a Tilt Trirotor UAV


    Beteiligte:
    Li Yu (Autor:in) / Guang He (Autor:in) / Shulong Zhao (Autor:in) / Xiangke Wang (Autor:in) / Lincheng Shen (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Unbekannt




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