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Automatic Flight Path Control of Small Unmanned Aircraft with Delta-wing ICCAS 2004

  • Nagata, Masanobu;Kumon, Makoto;Kouzawa, Ryuichi;Mizumoto, Ikuro;Iwai, Zenta
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1386-1391
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    • 2004
  • It is known that an aircraft with delta-wings which are attached to the body at a large angle like a kite or a hang glider has a measure of maneuverability and stability. Aircrafts of this kind can fly stably. Even if engine trouble occurs, it will not fall and might be able to land. In this paper, one of the conventional control methods, PID control, is applied to the aircraft with LQ local control block. This is based on an idea that the aircraft flies so stably that the automatic control system might be realized by a simple controller. The proposed PID controller consists of several sub-controllers which are constructed to each system neglecting the interference. In addition, the LQ control is involved as a local loop of the aileron and rudder control in order to increase stability of the attitude when circling. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown through 3D computer simulations and experiments of the flight path control.

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Re-establishing Method of Stability Margin Airworthiness Certification Criteriafor Flight Control System (비행제어시스템 안정성 여유 감항인증 기준 재정립 방안)

  • Kim, Dong-hwan;Kim, Chong-sup;Lim, Sangsoo;Koh, Gi-oak;Kim, Byoung soo
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.17-27
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    • 2022
  • A certain level of stability margin airworthiness criteria should be met to secure robustness against uncertainties between the real plant and the model in a flight control system design. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) specification of MIL-F-9490D and airworthiness certification standard of MIL-HDBK-516B uses gain and phase margin criteria of flight control system. However, the same stability margin criteria is applied at all development phases without considering the design maturity of each development phase of the aircraft. Ultimately, a problem arises when the aircraft operation envelope is excessively restricted. This paper proposes the relation of handling qualities and stability margin, and presents re-established stability margin criteria as a development phases and verification methods. The results of the research study are considered to contribute to the verification of the stability margin criteria more flexibly and effectively by applying the method to not only the currently manned developing aircrafts but also the unmanned vehicle to be developed in the future.

Instrumentation technology for flight test (비행시험 계측기술에 관한 연구)

  • 황명신
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.460-465
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    • 1993
  • The instrumentation system is the most important aspect of a flight test program. It is the means by which the objective of a flight test, the production of accurate, useful data, is achieved. An instrumentation system consists of everything required to sense, condition, and record all parameters of interest The task of a flight test engineer is to select a system that is adequate to obtain all needed data, but not complex, expensive, and heavy than the situation demands. In this paper, the primary factors that determine the design of an instrumentation system are discussed.

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A Study for the Airworthiness Certification Criteria and Compliance Related to the Flight Control Law (비행제어법칙 감항인증 기준 설정 및 입증 연구)

  • Koh, Gi Ok;Ko, Joon Soo;An, Young Gab
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.41 no.7
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    • pp.569-576
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    • 2013
  • The Airworthiness Certification from the government has an increasingly important role due to the dramatic growth of military aircraft development industry. It is a mandatory process of qualifying the flight safety within the aircraft's operational boundaries throughout its life cycle. The introduction of airworthiness certification has resulted in development paradigm shift from one requirement for one consumer need to the common requirement for many needs. This research paper provide the refinement of airworthiness certification criteria related to the flight control law and the verification methods which comply with its criteria.

Failure Rate Analysis of UAV Flight Control System (무인항공기용 비행제어 시스템의 고장율 분석)

  • Kim, Sung-Su;Oh, Tae-In;Choi, Kee-Young;Park, Choon-Bae;Ha, Cheol-Keun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.517-525
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    • 2007
  • As usage of UAV becomes more common, a basic requirements on the system are changing. Existent system did function embodiment by major object, but current UAV puts bigger weight to availability. Therefore, all the advanced countries in UAV technologies put great efforts in reliability analysis techniques and source collection of system, and reflect the result in design. The authors are developing a flight control system for a UAV and using the reliability analysis techniques in the process. This paper introduces basic reliability analysis techniques and results of analysis for a small UAV flight control system that is developing present. The result plans efficiency enlargement UAV development and operation process.

Trajectory Guidance and Control for a Small UAV

  • Sato, Yoichi;Yamasaki, Takeshi;Takano, Hiroyuki;Baba, Yoriaki
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.137-144
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    • 2006
  • The objective of this paper is to present trajectory guidance and control system with a dynamic inversion for a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV model is expressed by fixed-mass rigid-body six-degree-of-freedom equations of motion, which include the detailed aerodynamic coefficients, the engine model and the actuator models that have lags and limits. A trajectory is generated from the given waypoints using cubic spline functions of a flight distance. The commanded values of an angle of attack, a sideslip angle, a bank angle and a thrust, are calculated from guidance forces to trace the flight trajectory. To adapt various waypoint locations, a proportional navigation is combined with the guidance system. By the decision logic, appropriate guidance law is selected. The flight control system to achieve the commands is designed using a dynamic inversion approach. For a dynamic inversion controller we use the two-timescale assumption that separates the fast dynamics, involving the angular rates of the aircraft, from the slow dynamics, which include angle of attack, sideslip angle, and bank angle. Some numerical simulations are conducted to see the performance of the proposed guidance and control system.

Further results on the development of a novel VTOL aircraft, the Anuloid. Part II: Flight mechanics

  • Petrolo, Marco;Carrera, Erasmo;Visser, Coen de;D'Ottavio, Michele;Polit, Olivier
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.421-436
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    • 2017
  • This paper presents the main outcomes of the preliminary development of the Anuloid, an innovative disk-shaped VTOL aircraft. The Anuloid has three main features: lift is provided by a ducted fan powered by a turboshaft; control capabilities and anti-torque are due to a system of fixed and movable surfaces that are placed in the circular internal duct and the bottom portion of the aircraft; the Coanda effect is exploited to enable the control capabilities of such surfaces. In this paper, results from flight mechanics are presented. The vertical flight dynamics were found to be desirable. In contrast, the horizontal flight dynamics of the aircraft shows both dynamic instability, and more importantly, insufficient pitch and roll control authority. Some recommendations and guidelines are then given aimed at the alleviation of such problems.

A Study on Autonomous Control for LEO Satellites using OBCP(On-Board Control Procedures) (OBCP(On-Board Control Procedures)를 이용한 저궤도 관측위성의 자율적 제어기능에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Jae-Seung;Yang, Seung-Eun;Choi, Jong-Wook;Cheon, Yee-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.921-924
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    • 2010
  • 정지궤도 위성을 제외한 대부분의 저궤도 위성 및 심우주 관측용 위성은 임무를 수행하면서 하루동안에도 제한된 시간동안만 지상국과의 통신이 가능하다. 따라서 위성 운영에 고수준의 자율적 제어기능이 요구된다. OBCP(On-Board Control Procedures)는 별도로 개발된 언어로 작성한 작은 용량의 스크립트 프로그램을 통해 위성을 제어하는 기능을 제공한다. 이러한 방법을 통해 지상관제 시에 위성의 임무수행동안 수행되어야 하는 다양하고 복잡한 운영 시퀀스를 용이하게 준비하고 업로드할 수 있다. OBCP는 위성비행소프트웨어와는 분리된 별도의 서브시스템으로 수행되기 때문에 새로운 위성운영 프로시져의 생성을 위해 위성비행소프트웨어의 수정, 재검증, 코드업로드 등의 절차가 요구되지 않으며 지상에서 개발 및 검증시험을 완벽하게 수행할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 저궤도 관측위성에서 사용되었던 위성의 자율적 제어 시퀀스 기능과 OBCP의 기능을 비교하여 설명하고, 실제 Herschel and Plank 위성에 활용된 예를 통해 OBCP의 개념 및 설계 방안에 대하여 소개한다.

The NF-l6D VISTA Simulation System

  • Siouris, George M.
    • Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.114-123
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    • 2002
  • Called VISTA (Variable-stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft), the one-of-a-kind NF-l6D has a simulation system that can mimic several aircraft. Though housed in an F-l6 Fighting Falcon airframe, VISTA can also act like the F-15 Eagle or the Navy's F-14 Tomcat. More importantly, such flexibility allows for improved training and consolidation of some sorties. Consequently USAF Test Pilot School students will have an opportunity to learn how to test future integrated cockpits. In this paper we will use the multiple model adaptive estimation (MMAE) and the multiple model adaptive controller (MMAC) techniques to model the aircraft's flight control system containing the longitudinal and lateral-directional axes. Single and dual actuator and sensor failures will also be included in the simulation. White Gaussian noise will be included to simulate the effects of atmospheric disturbances.

Design and Implementation of UAV's Autopilot Controller

  • Lee, Jeong-Hwan;Lee, Ki-Sung;Jeong, Tae-Won
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.52-56
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    • 2004
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are remotely piloted or self-piloted aircraft by inputted program in advance or artificial intelligence. In this study Aileron and Elevator are used to control the movement of airplane for horizontal and vertical flights about its longitudinal and lateral axis. In an introduction, the drone was linearly modeled by extracting aerodynamic parameter through flight test and simulation, lift and drag coefficient corresponding to angle of attack, changes of pitching moment coefficient. In the main subject, the flight simulation was performed after constructing hardware using TMS320F2812 from TI company and PID with lateral and longitudinal controller for horizontal and vertical flights. Flying characteristics of two system were estimated and compared through real flight test with hardware equipped algorithm and adaptive algorithm that was applied to consider external factors such as turbulence. In conclusion the control performance of the controller with proposed algorithm was streamlined at lateral and longitudinal controller respectively, we will discuss guidance command to pass way point.

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