• DocumentCode
    3221743
  • Title

    Design and control of a tri-rotor aircraft

  • Author

    Fan, Penghui ; Wang, Xinhua ; Cai, Kai-Yuan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Autom. Control, Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    9-11 June 2010
  • Firstpage
    1972
  • Lastpage
    1977
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a tri-rotor aircraft is designed, which can vertically take off and land, and moreover fly forward with a high speed. Two fixed wings are added to the tri-rotor aircraft, therefore, the ability of high-speed forward flight is guaranteed. A controller is presented using back-stepping technique to achieve mode transition control of the aircraft. Finally, the theoretical result is confirmed by computer simulations.
  • Keywords
    aerospace components; aircraft control; helicopters; vehicle dynamics; aircraft control; backstepping technique; fixed wings; fly forward; high-speed forward flight; mode transition control; tri-rotor aircraft design; vertically land; vertically take off; Actuators; Aerospace control; Aircraft; Automatic control; Commutation; Computational modeling; Equations; Gears; Rotors; Shafts;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Control and Automation (ICCA), 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Xiamen
  • ISSN
    1948-3449
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5195-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1948-3449
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCA.2010.5524420
  • Filename
    5524420