Control of autonomous airship

Author

Liu, Yiwei ; Pan, Zengxi ; Stirling, David ; Naghdy, Fazel

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr., Comput. & Telecommun. Eng., Univ. of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

fYear

2009

Firstpage

2457

Lastpage

2462

Abstract

Scientific research and development on the control of autonomous airship have shown a significant growth in recent years. New applications appear in the areas such as freight carrier, advertising, monitoring, surveillance, transportation, military and scientific research. The control of Autonomous airship is a very important problem for the aerial robots research. In this paper, the previous research on the control of autonomous blimp is reviewed, Several popular control methods are categorized and discussed in detail. Then an intelligent navigation control method, reinforcement learning control, is introduced in the autonomous blimp which was used for 2007 UAV Outback Challenge. The future work on intelligent airship control is also outlined.

Keywords

adaptive control; aerospace robotics; aircraft navigation; airships; intelligent control; learning (artificial intelligence); mobile robots; motion control; path planning; remotely operated vehicles; 2007 UAV Outback Challenge; aerial robots research; autonomous airship control; autonomous blimp; intelligent navigation control method; reinforcement learning control; Advertising; Intelligent control; Intelligent robots; Learning; Monitoring; Navigation; Research and development; Road transportation; Surveillance; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2009 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4774-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4775-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIO.2009.5420403

Filename

5420403