Title:
System Integration and Operation of a Research Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
System Integration and Operation of a Research Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
| dc.contributor.author | Johnson, Eric N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schrage, Daniel P. | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Aerospace Engineering | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-15T18:04:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-02-15T18:04:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The use of flight simulation tools to reduce the schedule, risk, and required amount of flight-testing for complex aerospace systems is a well-recognized benefit of these approaches. However, some special challenges arise when one attempts to obtain these benefits for the development and operation of a research Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system. Research UAV systems are characterized by the need for continual checkout of experimental software and hardware. Also, flight-testing can be further leveraged by complementing experimental results with flight-test validated simulation results for the same vehicle system. In this paper, flight simulation architectures for system design, integration, and operation of an experimental helicopter-based UAV, are described. The chosen helicopter-based UAV platform (a Yamaha RMax) is well instrumented: differential GPS, an inertial measurement unit, sonar altimetry, and a 3-axis magnetometer. One or two general-purpose flight processors can be utilized. Research flight test results obtained to date, including those completed in conjunction with the DARPA Software Enabled Control program, are summarized. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | System Integration and Operation of a Research Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Eric N. Johnson, Daniel P. Schrage. Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, 1(1):5-18, January, 2004. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1542-9423 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/36909 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.publisher.original | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | |
| dc.subject | Flight simulators | en_US |
| dc.subject | Flight tests | en_US |
| dc.title | System Integration and Operation of a Research Unmanned Aerial Vehicle | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Post-print | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.author | Johnson, Eric N. | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research Facility | |
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