Adaptive Flight Control of a Carrier Based Unmanned Air Vehicle

Wadley, Jason; Tallant, Gregory; Ruszkowski, Robert

doi:10.2514/6.2003-5596

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“…The SBE was developed as a follow-on to the multirole endurance conceptual design, which resulted from a contracted research and development program with NAVAIR. 6 The SBE design is illustrated in Fig. 4.…”

Section: A Air-vehicle Study Configurationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prognostics and Health Management as Design Variable in Air-Vehicle Conceptual Design

Bodden

Hadden

Grube

et al. 2006

Journal of Aircraft

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Flight critical systems in air vehicles achieve required reliability through different redundancy design techniques including physical system redundancy. Prognostics and health management technology provides the opportunity to eliminate some of the physical redundancy (and associated weight) through implementation of accurate remaining useful life algorithms. Consideration of this subsystem design approach up front during the conceptual design process rather than downstream during the detailed design phase of the air vehicle system can produce a more optimal air-vehicle configuration with regard to reliability and weight. Results are presented for an unmanned air-vehicle design optimization, which included remaining useful life algorithm confidence, control surface actuator redundancy, and control surface configuration as optimization variables. Optimization constraints included landing dispersion, mission reliability, and mission availability. Reductions in air-vehicle weight were achieved with reasonable algorithm confidence requirements.

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Section: A Air-vehicle Study Configurationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prognostics and Health Management as Design Variable in Air-Vehicle Conceptual Design

Bodden

Hadden

Grube

et al. 2006

Journal of Aircraft

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“…And in recent years, considerable attention has been given to UAVs capable of performing critical needs for the Navy. These UAVs are capable of takeoff and landing on an aircraft carrier, while the smaller ones are even able to equip the warships [4]. One of the important problems related to naval Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), is the design of an automatic landing system that would enable autonomous landing of a UAV on an aircraft, and a lot of studies has been done on this problems [5,6].…”

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A Method of Path Planning and Control Strategy for Carrier-Based UAV in Return Section

Pei¹,

Zhang²,

Wang³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Automation, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (AMEE 2017)

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Abstract-Compared with conventional path planning method, the path planning for carrier based UAVs has its own characteristics, especially in its return section. Firstly, the fuel carried with the UAV is limited, so that the UAV is expected to return to the carrier as soon as possible after the task is finished. Secondly, the carrier, which is moving at a certain speed, constrains that the UAV's velocity must be in the same direction with that of the carrier before landing. Thirdly, due to the limited landing space on the carrier, the lateral error between the UAV and the carrier should be minimized. Considering all above, this paper proposes a path planning method aiming at the carrierbased UAV in its return section, and to ensure the UAV to fly along the planned path accurately and with stable attitude, control strategies are designed. To avoid unnecessary detours, the velocity of both the UAV and the carrier is taken into consideration and the estimated landing window is updated when either of the velocity changes. The simulation results show the path and control strategy proposed in the paper are effective.

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