TY - GEN
T1 - Software enabled control experiments with university-operated unmanned aircraft
AU - Johnson, Eric N.
AU - Schrage, Daniel P.
AU - Vachtsevanos, George
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - On August 25, 2004, a series of flight experiments and demonstrations were flown at the McKenna urban operations complex at Ft. Benning, GA. These experiments represented the culmination of the rotary wing segment of the DARPA Software Enabled Control program. To support these efforts, an open system Unmanned Aerial Vehicle testbed architecture was developed for the GTMax and GTSpy university-operated research aircraft. This paper includes a description of these systems, and then discusses results from the final experiments. This includes: fault-tolerant flight control, adaptive flight control, fault detection and accommodation, reconfigurable control, trajectory generation, envelope protection, vision-aided inertial navigation, vision-based obstacle avoidance, and the first air-launching of a hovering aircraft.
AB - On August 25, 2004, a series of flight experiments and demonstrations were flown at the McKenna urban operations complex at Ft. Benning, GA. These experiments represented the culmination of the rotary wing segment of the DARPA Software Enabled Control program. To support these efforts, an open system Unmanned Aerial Vehicle testbed architecture was developed for the GTMax and GTSpy university-operated research aircraft. This paper includes a description of these systems, and then discusses results from the final experiments. This includes: fault-tolerant flight control, adaptive flight control, fault detection and accommodation, reconfigurable control, trajectory generation, envelope protection, vision-aided inertial navigation, vision-based obstacle avoidance, and the first air-launching of a hovering aircraft.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.2005-6956
DO - 10.2514/6.2005-6956
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33748687248
SN - 1563477394
SN - 9781563477393
T3 - Collection of Technical Papers - InfoTech at Aerospace: Advancing Contemporary Aerospace Technologies and Their Integration
SP - 500
EP - 508
BT - Collection of Technical Papers - InfoTech at Aerospace
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc.
T2 - InfoTech at Aerospace: Advancing Contemporary Aerospace Technologies and Their Integration
Y2 - 26 September 2005 through 29 September 2005
ER -