Flight control system design for a small unmanned aircraft

Author

Ozimina, Chester D. ; Tayman, Steve K. ; Chaplin, Harvey E.

Author_Institution

Tactical Electron. Warfare Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1995

fDate

21-23 Jun 1995

Firstpage

2964

Abstract

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has designed, fabricated and successfully tested a small electrically-powered autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV, which is intended to be a missile decoy, is designed to be deployed with wings and tail surfaces folded from a standard shipboard chaff round launcher. This paper describes the design and development of a microcontroller based automatic flight control system for the UAV. The flight control system hardware, software, control laws, and the methods used to synthesize the control laws are described. Flight test results are discussed

Keywords

aircraft control; computerised control; control system synthesis; control systems; microcontrollers; military aircraft; telecontrol; Naval Research Laboratory; autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle; control synthesis; flight control system; microcontroller; missile decoy; unmanned aircraft; Aerospace control; Automatic control; Control system synthesis; Hardware; Laboratories; Microcontrollers; Missiles; Tail; Testing; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, Proceedings of the 1995

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2445-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.1995.532056

Filename

532056