This paper describes the design, development and demonstration of a manual UAV control module for easy and safe flight without highly skilled R/C pilot. The developing system enables an UAV operator on the ground to control flight path/attitudes/angular rates of an aircraft easily and intuitively using just a simple game controller. The guidance and navigation commands from the operator are transmitted to an onboard computer through wireless data link, and then control surfaces are driven fully automatically. The control logic is designed based on nonlinear dynamic inversion approach. The implemented control software has been verified by hardware in the loop simulation, and the actual effectiveness has been demonstrated through flight experiments. The developing system could make UAV operation much easier and safer than conventional R/C flight.
Development of skill-free manual control module for easy and safe flight of UAV
2009
6 Seiten, 9 Quellen
Conference paper
English
NTRS | 2008
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 2009
|Free and easy - A study of European 'free flight'
Online Contents | 1997
7J7 manual flight control functions
AIAA | 1987
|Manual Flight Control with Saturating Actuators
British Library Online Contents | 1998
|