Onboard Wind Velocity Estimation Comparison for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Matthew B. Rhudy, Yu Gu, Jason N. Gross, Haiyang Chao

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel wind estimation approach, which is compared with existing ideas utilizing different combinations of common aircraft sensors to estimate the wind velocity in real time at the location of an aircraft. These different techniques were evaluated using simulation data as well as two experimental unmanned aircraft flight tests using validation data from a ground weather station. Significant performance advantage was shown of the new filtering technique over the existing approaches.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number7807266
Pages (from-to)55-66
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Volume53
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2017

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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