Autonomous control of running takeoff and landing for a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle

Author

Zhang Daibing ; Wang Xun ; Kong Weiwei

Author_Institution

Coll. of Mechatron. Eng. & Autom., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China

fYear

2012

Firstpage

990

Lastpage

994

Abstract

This paper concerns about automatic flight control strategies for the running takeoff and landing of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Firstly, a dynamic model of fixed-wing UAVs is developed. Then the takeoff and landing control strategies are designed. The flight control strategies are designed to be segmented. A fixed-wing UAV named “Petrel” is used as an experimental platform. Finally, the flight experimental results are proposed to validate the automatic running takeoff and landing controller.

Keywords

autonomous aerial vehicles; mobile robots; position control; robot dynamics; Petrel UAV; autonomous control; fixed-wing UAV dynamic model; fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle; flight control strategy; landing control strategy; takeoff control strategy; Aerospace control; Elevators; Mathematical model; Military aircraft; Trajectory; Unmanned aerial vehicles; automatic control; fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle; flight experiment; running takeoff and landing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Automation Robotics & Vision (ICARCV), 2012 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1871-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-1870-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICARCV.2012.6485292

Filename

6485292