The study of a control system for the Da Vinci 2 human-powered helicopter in hovering flight is documented. This helicopter has two very large, slowly rotating rotor blades and is considered to be unstable in hover. The control system is designed to introduce stability in hover by maintaining level rotors through the use of rotor tip mounted control surfaces. A five degree of freedom kinematic model was developed to study this control system and is documented. Results of this study show that the unaugmented configuration is unstable due to the large Lock Number, and the augmented configuration is stable. The role of NASA in this study included the development and analysis of the kinematic model and control laws. Both analytical and numerical techniques were used.


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    Title :

    Control of a Human-Powered Helicopter in Hover


    Contributors:
    J. J. Totah (author) / W. Patterson (author)

    Publication date :

    1988


    Size :

    65 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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