Solus: an autonomous aircraft for flight control and trajectory planning research

Author

Atkins, Ella M. ; Miller, Robert H. ; Pelt, Tobin Van ; Shaw, Keith D. ; Ribbens, William B. ; Washabaugh, Peter D. ; Bernstein, Dennis S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

21-26 Jun 1998

Firstpage

689

Abstract

The University of Michigan has developed a fixed-wing model aircraft (Solus) with an embedded control system to develop and demonstrate UAV technology. The analytical objective of this project is the development of intelligent flight control and trajectory planning techniques, focusing on automated fault detection and recovery. Our experimental objective is to implement and evaluate these techniques on Solus for a variety of mission and fault scenarios

Keywords

aircraft control; fault location; intelligent control; mobile robots; path planning; real-time systems; Solus; UAV technology; automated fault detection; automated fault recovery; autonomous aircraft; embedded control system; fixed-wing model aircraft; intelligent flight control; intelligent trajectory planning; Aerodynamics; Aerospace control; Aircraft; Control systems; Data systems; Instruments; System testing; Trajectory; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vehicle dynamics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4530-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.1998.703494

Filename

703494