TY - GEN
T1 - Mobile ground control station development for fault tolerant UAV research
AU - Guerra, Matteo
AU - Rhudy, Matthew
AU - Gu, Yu
AU - Seanor, Brad
AU - Napolitano, Marcello R.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The Flight Control System Laboratory at West Virginia University is actively engaged with the development, flight testing, and research of unmanned aerial vehicles. Multiple research topics are approached: aircraft modeling and design, sensor fusion, fault tolerant multi-sensor fusion, control strategy formulation, and testing for fault tolerant flight. This paper presents the new addition of a ground control system which is able to communicate with the onboard flight control system in real time. This system is capable of modifying the flight conditions and the control actions. A research pilot can fly the aircraft through the ground control station taking advantage of a synthetic view with Heads-Up Display containing downlink information from the aircraft showing all parameters of interest. A detailed hardware and software description is provided along with the current testbed capabilities. Testing procedures and results are presented followed by a discussion of future testing and research plans. The Flight Control System Laboratory at West Virginia University is actively engaged with the development, flight testing, and research of unmanned aerial vehicles. Multiple research topics are approached: aircraft modeling and design, sensor fusion, fault tolerant multi-sensor fusion, control strategy formulation, and testing for fault tolerant flight. This paper presents the new addition of a ground control system which is able to communicate with the onboard flight control system in real time. This system is capable of modifying the flight conditions and the control actions. A research pilot can fly the aircraft through the ground control station taking advantage of a synthetic view with Heads-Up Display containing downlink information from the aircraft showing all parameters of interest. A detailed hardware and software description is provided along with the current testbed capabilities. Testing procedures and results are presented followed by a discussion of future testing and research plans.
AB - The Flight Control System Laboratory at West Virginia University is actively engaged with the development, flight testing, and research of unmanned aerial vehicles. Multiple research topics are approached: aircraft modeling and design, sensor fusion, fault tolerant multi-sensor fusion, control strategy formulation, and testing for fault tolerant flight. This paper presents the new addition of a ground control system which is able to communicate with the onboard flight control system in real time. This system is capable of modifying the flight conditions and the control actions. A research pilot can fly the aircraft through the ground control station taking advantage of a synthetic view with Heads-Up Display containing downlink information from the aircraft showing all parameters of interest. A detailed hardware and software description is provided along with the current testbed capabilities. Testing procedures and results are presented followed by a discussion of future testing and research plans. The Flight Control System Laboratory at West Virginia University is actively engaged with the development, flight testing, and research of unmanned aerial vehicles. Multiple research topics are approached: aircraft modeling and design, sensor fusion, fault tolerant multi-sensor fusion, control strategy formulation, and testing for fault tolerant flight. This paper presents the new addition of a ground control system which is able to communicate with the onboard flight control system in real time. This system is capable of modifying the flight conditions and the control actions. A research pilot can fly the aircraft through the ground control station taking advantage of a synthetic view with Heads-Up Display containing downlink information from the aircraft showing all parameters of interest. A detailed hardware and software description is provided along with the current testbed capabilities. Testing procedures and results are presented followed by a discussion of future testing and research plans.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880585545
SN - 9781600869389
T3 - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2012
BT - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2012
T2 - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2012
Y2 - 13 August 2012 through 16 August 2012
ER -