Feasibility of a Distributed Flight Array

Author

Oung, Raymond ; Ramezani, Alireza ; D´Andrea, Raffaello

Author_Institution

Inst. for Dynamic Syst. & Control, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

3038

Lastpage

3044

Abstract

This paper introduces the distributed flight array (DFA) which is being developed at ETH Zurich. This multi-rotor platform consists of autonomous rotor modules that are able to drive, dock with their peers, and fly in a coordinated fashion. These modules are organized as distributed computational units with minimal sensory input. This is a complex system that is rich in dynamics with much room to explore various strategies of distributed estimation and control. In this paper, a simple distributed strategy for hover control is presented and feasibility of the DFA is demonstrated.

Keywords

aircraft control; distributed control; rotors; autonomous rotor modules; distributed computational units; distributed control; distributed estimation; distributed flight array; hover control; Assembly; Automatic control; Control systems; Distributed control; Doped fiber amplifiers; Energy storage; Propellers; Sensor arrays; Vehicle dynamics; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2009 held jointly with the 2009 28th Chinese Control Conference. CDC/CCC 2009. Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3871-6

Electronic_ISBN

0191-2216

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2009.5400272

Filename

5400272