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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2017.45.6.455

Development of the Multi-Propeller based Attitude Control Method for VTOL type Compound Aircraft  

Seung, Myeonghun (Future Aerospace Technology Team of Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Han, Sanghyuck (Future Aerospace Technology Team of Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Kim, Jongchul (Future Aerospace Technology Team of Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Gong, Hyeon Cheol (Future Aerospace Technology Team of Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.45, no.6, 2017 , pp. 455-462 More about this Journal
Abstract
In recent decades, many researchers have been struggling to developing the compound aircraft that is capable high speed and VTOL flight. And in recent years, multi-copters are very popular because of having advantages of VTOL and easy handling, but they are lack of doing long-range mission. Therefore, we presents simple aircraft architecture which is equipped fixed wing, multi propellers and no control surfaces. In this paper, we designed the attitude control for the compound aircraft prototype and measured the attitude control performance with flight test for validating prototype's performance. We analysed the attitude control test result comparing with similar size of a fixed wing aircraft. The performance was almost same as fixed wing aircraft.
Keywords
Compound aircraft; VTOL; Multicopter; Fixed wing; Multi propeller; Attitude control;
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