Development and applications of a rapid flight test prototyping system for unmanned air vehicles

Author

Hallberg, E. ; Komlosy, J. ; Rivers, T. ; Watson, M. ; Meeks, D. ; Lentz, J. ; Kaminer, I. ; Yakimenko, O.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut. Eng., Naval Postgraduate Sch., Monterey, CA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Lastpage

2610

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a rapid prototyping system for flight testing of guidance, navigation and control algorithms for unmanned air vehicles. The system affords a small team the ability to rapidly prototype new theoretical concepts and flight test their performance in realistic mission scenarios. The paper describes the software and hardware tools adopted for system development and discusses their application to the proof of concept flight test demonstration of a new integrated guidance and control algorithm for the Frog UAV

Keywords

aircraft control; aircraft navigation; aircraft testing; avionics; remotely operated vehicles; software prototyping; software tools; Frog UAV; autonomous flight; avionics suite; control algorithms; guidance algorithms; hardware tools; integrated guidance and control algorithm; navigation algorithms; path following algorithm; proof of concept demonstration; rapid flight test prototyping system; realistic mission scenarios; software tools; unmanned air vehicles; Application software; Control systems; Hardware; Navigation; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Software testing; Software tools; System testing; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities, 1999. ICIASF 99. 18th International Congress on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5715-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIASF.1999.827166

Filename

827166