Autonomous Close Formation Flight Control with Fixed Wing and Quadrotor Test Beds
dc.contributor.author | Rice, Caleb | |
dc.contributor.author | Gu, Yu | |
dc.contributor.author | Chao, Haiyang | |
dc.contributor.author | Larrabee, Trenton | |
dc.contributor.author | Gururajan, Srikanth | |
dc.contributor.author | Napolitano, Marcello | |
dc.contributor.author | Mandal, Tanmay | |
dc.contributor.author | Rhudy, Matthew B. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-03T19:43:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-11-03T19:43:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-05-11 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Caleb Rice, Yu Gu, Haiyang Chao, et al., “Autonomous Close Formation Flight Control with Fixed Wing and Quadrotor Test Beds,” International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, vol. 2016, Article ID 9517654, 15 pages, 2016. doi:10.1155/2016/9517654 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25258 | |
dc.description.abstract | Autonomous formation flight is a key approach for reducing energy cost and managing traffic in future high density airspace. The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has allowed low-budget and low-risk validation of autonomous formation flight concepts. This paper discusses the implementation and flight testing of nonlinear dynamic inversion (NLDI) controllers for close formation flight (CFF) using two distinct UAV platforms: a set of fixed wing aircraft named “Phastball” and a set of quadrotors named “NEO.” Experimental results show that autonomous CFF with approximately 5-wingspan separation is achievable with a pair of low-cost unmanned Phastball research aircraft. Simulations of the quadrotor flight also validate the design of the NLDI controller for the NEO quadrotors. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Hindawi Publishing Corporation | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2016 Caleb Rice et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.title | Autonomous Close Formation Flight Control with Fixed Wing and Quadrotor Test Beds | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Chao, Haiyang | |
kusw.kudepartment | Aerospace Engineering | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1155/2016/9517654 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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