Title :
Design and control of a tri-rotor aircraft
Author :
Fan, Penghui ; Wang, Xinhua ; Cai, Kai-Yuan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom. Control, Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Beijing, China
Abstract :
In this paper, a tri-rotor aircraft is designed, which can vertically take off and land, and moreover fly forward with a high speed. Two fixed wings are added to the tri-rotor aircraft, therefore, the ability of high-speed forward flight is guaranteed. A controller is presented using back-stepping technique to achieve mode transition control of the aircraft. Finally, the theoretical result is confirmed by computer simulations.
Keywords :
aerospace components; aircraft control; helicopters; vehicle dynamics; aircraft control; backstepping technique; fixed wings; fly forward; high-speed forward flight; mode transition control; tri-rotor aircraft design; vertically land; vertically take off; Actuators; Aerospace control; Aircraft; Automatic control; Commutation; Computational modeling; Equations; Gears; Rotors; Shafts;
Conference_Titel :
Control and Automation (ICCA), 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Xiamen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5195-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1948-3449
DOI :
10.1109/ICCA.2010.5524420
