Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICARCV.2012.6485292
