The 68th and 69th flights of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter marked the first dedicated system identification flights of an aerial vehicle on another planet. Chirp signals were injected into the swashplate cyclic controls for both legs of the two out-and-back flights. Frequency responses were computed from the flight data, using both the Direct Method (DM) and the Joint-Input-Output (JIO) approach, for the identification of stability and control derivatives in forward flight conditions. The resulting identified state-space models were compared against existing flight dynamics simulation models, showing excellent correlation in the higher frequency range. External disturbances were seen to introduce a bias in the identified lower frequency responses, which was partially mitigated using the JIO method. These findings will inform future modeling and flight testing efforts of Mars rotorcraft.


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    Title :

    In-flight System Identification of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter


    Contributors:
    T. S. Aagren (author) / A. W. Ruan (author) / C. Malpica (author) / S. Withrow-Maser (author) / L. Meyn (author)

    Publication date :

    2024


    Size :

    23 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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