Uncrewed aerial vehicles are integral to a smart city framework, but the dynamic environments above and within urban settings are dangerous for autonomous flight. Wind gusts caused by the uneven landscape jeopardize safe and effective aircraft operation. Birds rapidly reject gusts by changing their wing shape, but current gust alleviation methods for aircraft still use discrete control surfaces. Additionally, modern gust alleviation controllers challenge small uncrewed aerial vehicle power constraints by relying on extensive sensing networks and computationally expensive modeling. Here we show end-to-end deep reinforcement learning forgoing state inference to efficiently alleviate gusts on a smart material camber-morphing wing. In a series of wind tunnel gust experiments at the University of Michigan, trained controllers reduced gust impact by 84% from on-board pressure signals. Notably, gust alleviation using signals from only three pressure taps was statistically indistinguishable from using six pressure tap signals. By efficiently rejecting environmental perturbations, reduced-sensor fly-by-feel controllers open the door to small uncrewed aerial vehicle missions in cities.

    Haughn and colleagues develop gust rejection controllers and overcome challenges of computationally expensive modeling and expansive distributed sensing networks. With only three pressure tap sensors, small fixed wing uncrewed aerial vehicles could extend into more complex urban environments.


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    Titel :

    Deep learning reduces sensor requirements for gust rejection on a small uncrewed aerial vehicle morphing wing


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Commun Eng


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024-03-21




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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