The huge developments in embedded systems in addition to its availability for civilian applications in low cost, size and weight attract the researchers in the field of navigation, guidance and control all over the world towards the embedded flight control and autopilots. One of the flight control subsystems is the control fin drive that is responsible of the flying vehicle fins motion control. This paper is devoted to the design and implementation of embedded control fin drive that can be utilized with different guided vehicles such as guided missiles, guided munitions, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The design includes calibration of available actuators and feedback sensors in addition to the design of conditioning networks, interfacing and classical controller to stabilize this subsystem and achieve the performance requirements. Also, the design is justified against disturbance and measurement noises. The tests conducted with the designed hardware and the available actuator via the Hardware in the Loop (HIL) simulation show good performance concerning tracking, disturbance rejection and measurement noise. However, the controller necessitates extra tuning to become less sensitive to noises, which is the objective for future work.
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