TY - GEN
T1 - Control performance analysis for autonomous close formation flight experiments
AU - Rice, Caleb
AU - Gu, Yu
AU - Chao, Haiyang
AU - Larrabee, Trenton
AU - Gururajan, Srikanth
AU - Napolitano, Marcello
AU - Mandal, Tanmay
AU - Rhudy, Matthew
N1 - Funding Information:
The project was funded by Fundació Cellex Barcelona, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (PHOTOSTROKE), “Severo Ochoa” (SEV-2015-0522), Obra social “la Caixa” Foundation (LlumMedBcn) and LASERLAB-EUROPE III (BIOPTHICAL).
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Close Formation Flight is a key potential approach for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and managing traffic in future high density airspace. This paper discusses the implementation and flight testing of a formation flight controller. Experimental results show that an autonomous close formation flight with approximately 5-wingspan separation is achievable with a pair of low-cost unmanned research aircraft.
AB - Close Formation Flight is a key potential approach for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and managing traffic in future high density airspace. This paper discusses the implementation and flight testing of a formation flight controller. Experimental results show that an autonomous close formation flight with approximately 5-wingspan separation is achievable with a pair of low-cost unmanned research aircraft.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842372
DO - 10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842372
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904565115
SN - 9781479923762
T3 - 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings
SP - 1175
EP - 1180
BT - 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014
Y2 - 27 May 2014 through 30 May 2014
ER -