Aircraft model-independent airspeed estimation without pitot tube measurements

Matthew B. Rhudy; Mario L. Fravolini; Yu Gu; Marcello R. Napolitano; Srikanth Gururajan; Haiyang Chao

doi:10.1109/TAES.2015.130631

Aircraft model-independent airspeed estimation without pitot tube measurements

Matthew B. Rhudy, Mario L. Fravolini, Yu Gu, Marcello R. Napolitano, Srikanth Gururajan, Haiyang Chao

Division of Engineering, Business & Computing (Berks)

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	7272846
Pages (from-to)	1980-1995
Number of pages	16
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Volume	51
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2015.130631
State	Published - Jul 1 2015

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Aerospace Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Aircraft model-independent airspeed estimation without pitot tube measurements

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