Identification of directional runway dynamics for an experimental UAV

Author

Drago, I.N. ; Maciel, B.C.O. ; Hemerly, Elder M. ; Almeida, F.A.

Author_Institution

Flight Technol., São José dos Campos, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

28-31 May 2013

Firstpage

881

Lastpage

889

Abstract

The knowledge of the ground directional behavior of an UAV during the ground phase is crucial in order to develop an automatic take-off and landing control system. During such development program, it is very common to use prototypes. These prototypes have specifics components and mostly of the performance characteristics of these components are unknown. This paper deals with the identification of the ground dynamics of a nose wheel tricycle landing gear by using real UAV runway tests data. A simplified mathematical model is proposed for identification by using Output Error Method with minimization of the cost function by Levenberg-Marquartd. The identification results enable development of ground steering laws.

Keywords

autonomous aerial vehicles; gears; minimisation; mobile robots; robot dynamics; Levenberg-Marquardt method; automatic take-off-and-landing control system; cost function minimization; directional runway dynamics; experimental UAV; ground directional behavior; ground steering law; nose wheel tricycle landing gear; output error method; unmanned aerial vehicle; Aerodynamics; Force; Gears; Mathematical model; Nose; Tires; Vehicle dynamics; Cornering Stiffness; Ground Dynamics; Landing Gear; Parameter Estimation; UAV;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0815-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564773

Filename

6564773