Autonomous Formation Flight: Hardware Development

Author

Gu, Yu ; Seanor, Brad ; Campa, Giampiero ; Napolitano, Marcello R. ; Gururaj, Srikanth ; Rowe, Larry

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Aerosp. Eng., West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV

fYear

2006

fDate

28-30 June 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper describes the hardware development for an autonomous formation flight research project at West Virginia University. Each aircraft test bed was outfitted with an inertial navigation system (INS), GPS receiver and telemetry system tailored to perform the formation flight experiment. This paper provides a detailed summary about the aircraft test-bed, on-board electronic payload, and the various flight testing phases leading to the final 3-aircraft formation demonstration

Keywords

Global Positioning System; aerospace components; aircraft control; aircraft testing; inertial navigation; remotely operated vehicles; space telemetry; GPS receiver; aircraft test-bed; autonomous formation flight research project; hardware development; inertial navigation system; onboard electronic payload; telemetry system; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft navigation; Electronic equipment testing; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Inertial navigation; Payloads; Performance evaluation; System testing; Telemetry; formation flight; on-board payload; unmanned aerial vehicle;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control and Automation, 2006. MED '06. 14th Mediterranean Conference on

Conference_Location

Ancona

Print_ISBN

0-9786720-1-1

Electronic_ISBN

0-9786720-0-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MED.2006.328709

Filename

4124935