DocumentCode
3606428
Title
Aircraft model-independent airspeed estimation without pitot tube measurements
Author
Rhudy, Matthew B. ; Fravolini, Mario L. ; Yu Gu ; Napolitano, Marcello R. ; Gururajan, Srikanth ; Chao, Haiyang
Author_Institution
Pennsylvania State Univ., Reading, PA, USA
Volume
51
Issue
3
fYear
2015
fDate
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1980
Lastpage
1995
Abstract
This paper presents a novel analytical redundancy approach for pitot tube failure accommodation using nonlinear Kalman filtering. This approach utilizes information from other sensors that are commonly implemented on aircraft in order to obtain an estimate of the airspeed which is independent from the pitot tube(s). This method was demonstrated to be independent of the aircraft model by providing experimental estimation results from two different unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research platforms.
Keywords
Kalman filters; aircraft; autonomous aerial vehicles; nonlinear filters; sensors; velocity measurement; UAV research platform; aircraft model-independent airspeed estimation; nonlinear Kalman filtering; pitot tube measurement; sensor; unmanned aerial vehicle research platform; Aircraft; Atmospheric modeling; Electron tubes; Estimation; Mathematical model; Noise; Sensors;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9251
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TAES.2015.130631
Filename
7272846
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