Motion Equations and Attitude Control in the Vertical Flight of a VTOL Bi-Rotor UAV

This paper gathers the design and implementation of the control system that allows an unmanned Flying-wing to perform a Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) maneuver using two tilting rotors (Bi-Rotor). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in this configuration are also categorized as Hybrid UA...

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Published inElectronics (Basel) Vol. 8; no. 2; p. 208
Main Authors Garcia-Nieto, Sergio, Velasco-Carrau, Jesus, Paredes-Valles, Federico, Salcedo, Jose, Simarro, Raul
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.02.2019
Subjects
Aircraft
Aircraft configurations
Attitude control
Aviation
Control systems design
Controllers
Design
Dynamical systems
Equations of motion
Flight envelopes
Genetic algorithms
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation
Hovering
Hovering flight
Mathematical models
Nonlinear dynamics
Tilting rotors
Tracking control
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Vehicles
Vertical flight
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Summary:This paper gathers the design and implementation of the control system that allows an unmanned Flying-wing to perform a Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) maneuver using two tilting rotors (Bi-Rotor). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in this configuration are also categorized as Hybrid UAVs due to their ability of having a dual flight envelope: hovering like a multi-rotor and cruising like a traditional fixed-wing, providing the opportunity of facing complex missions in which these two different dynamics are required. This work exhibits the Bi-Rotor nonlinear dynamics, the attitude tracking controller design and also, the results obtained through Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) simulation and experimental studies that ensure the controller’s efficiency in hovering operation.
ISSN:2079-9292
2079-9292
DOI:10.3390/electronics8020208