Title :
A gimbaled platform for MAV autopilot simulation and calibration
Author :
Shumaker, Justin ; Ali, Kamal S. ; Carter, Lamarious
Author_Institution :
Army Res. Lab., Aberdeen, MD
Abstract :
This paper describes a three degrees of freedom gimbaled platform designed to be used as a hardware in the loop simulator (HILS). This platform is designed to aid in the calibration and synchronization of Micro Aerial Vehiclespsila autopilot components. This platform can also be used as a simulator allowing the autopilot to fly a computer model of the airframe. This allows for the quick and efficient verification of autopilot behavior with different airframes under various weather conditions within the lab.
Keywords :
aerospace computing; aerospace control; aerospace simulation; MAV autopilot simulation; airframe; calibration; computer model; gimbaled platform; hardware in the loop simulator; microaerial vehicles; Aerospace simulation; Attitude control; Calibration; Computational modeling; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Measurement units; Optical filters; Rendering (computer graphics); Shafts;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2008. DASC 2008. IEEE/AIAA 27th
Conference_Location :
St. Paul, MN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2207-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2208-1
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.2008.4702832
