Title :
Software-enabled control technologies for autonomous aerial vehicles
Author :
Rufus, F. ; Clements, Sid ; Sander, Sverker ; Heck, B. ; Wills, Linda ; Vachtsevanos, G.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA
Abstract :
Autonomous extreme-performance aerial vehicles are currently impractical and intractable using today´s control engineering approaches. This paper presents some control algorithms that address some of the current limitations in control design methods and also introduces a software architecture for implementing the algorithms
Keywords :
aircraft control; control engineering computing; distributed object management; fault tolerant computing; helicopters; nonlinear control systems; optimal control; remotely operated vehicles; software architecture; state feedback; CORBA; autonomous aerial vehicles; control algorithms; control design method limitations; extreme-performance aerial vehicles; fault identification; fault tolerant control; flight controller; hierarchical controller; hover to forward flight mode controller; mode transitioning; nonlinear dynamics; optimal control; small-scale helicopter; software architecture; software-enabled control technologies; state feedback; Aerospace electronics; Architecture description languages;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 18th
Conference_Location :
St Louis, MO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5749-3
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.1999.813671
