TY - GEN
T1 - Calibration of an Air Data System for Small Multirotor Aircraft
AU - Elsharkawy, Ezzeldin
AU - Valente, Vitor T.
AU - Rachaprolu, Joel Sundar
AU - Greenwood, Eric
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Airspeed calibration methods are developed for a hexacopter aircraft equipped with a sonic anemometer-based weather station as an air data system. A GPS-based method is used that accounts for the effects of the aerodynamic flow field around both the vehicle and the air data system. Measurements show that these installation effects are significant—resulting in an airspeed measurement error of approximately 18%—but can be quantified and corrected to produce an accurate calibrated airspeed.
AB - Airspeed calibration methods are developed for a hexacopter aircraft equipped with a sonic anemometer-based weather station as an air data system. A GPS-based method is used that accounts for the effects of the aerodynamic flow field around both the vehicle and the air data system. Measurements show that these installation effects are significant—resulting in an airspeed measurement error of approximately 18%—but can be quantified and corrected to produce an accurate calibrated airspeed.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.2024-4393
DO - 10.2514/6.2024-4393
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85203707917
SN - 9781624107160
T3 - AIAA Aviation Forum and ASCEND, 2024
BT - AIAA Aviation Forum and ASCEND, 2024
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
T2 - AIAA Aviation Forum and ASCEND, 2024
Y2 - 29 July 2024 through 2 August 2024
ER -