• Title/Summary/Keyword: Autopilot Control

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Design and Implementation of UAV's Autopilot Controller

  • Lee, Jeong-Hwan;Lee, Ki-Sung;Jeong, Tae-Won
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.52-56
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    • 2004
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are remotely piloted or self-piloted aircraft by inputted program in advance or artificial intelligence. In this study Aileron and Elevator are used to control the movement of airplane for horizontal and vertical flights about its longitudinal and lateral axis. In an introduction, the drone was linearly modeled by extracting aerodynamic parameter through flight test and simulation, lift and drag coefficient corresponding to angle of attack, changes of pitching moment coefficient. In the main subject, the flight simulation was performed after constructing hardware using TMS320F2812 from TI company and PID with lateral and longitudinal controller for horizontal and vertical flights. Flying characteristics of two system were estimated and compared through real flight test with hardware equipped algorithm and adaptive algorithm that was applied to consider external factors such as turbulence. In conclusion the control performance of the controller with proposed algorithm was streamlined at lateral and longitudinal controller respectively, we will discuss guidance command to pass way point.

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Missile Adaptive Control using T-S Fuzzy Model (T-S 퍼지 모델을 이용한 유도탄 적응 제어)

  • 윤한진;박창우;박민용
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.11 no.8
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    • pp.771-775
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, in order to control uncertain missile autopilot, an adaptive fuzzy control(AFC) scheme via parallel distributed compensation(PDC) is developed for the multi-input/multi -output plants represented by the Takagi-Sugeno(T-S) fuzzy model. Moreover adaptive law is designed so that the plant output tracks the stable reference model(SRM). From the simulations results, we can conclude that the suggested scheme can effectively solve the control problems of uncertain missile systems based on T-S fuzzy model.

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Path Generation Method of UAV Autopilots Using Max-Min Algorithm

  • Kwak, Jeonghoon;Sung, Yunsick
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1457-1463
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    • 2018
  • In recent times, Natural User Interface/Natural User Experience (NUI/NUX) technology has found widespread application across a diverse range of fields and is also utilized for controlling unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Even if the user controls the UAV by utilizing the NUI/NUX technology, it is difficult for the user to easily control the UAV. The user needs an autopilot to easily control the UAV. The user needs a flight path to use the autopilot. The user sets the flight path based on the waypoints. UAVs normally fly straight from one waypoint to another. However, if flight between two waypoints is in a straight line, UAVs may collide with obstacles. In order to solve collision problems, flight records can be utilized to adjust the generated path taking the locations of the obstacles into consideration. This paper proposes a natural path generation method between waypoints based on flight records collected through UAVs flown by users. Bayesian probability is utilized to select paths most similar to the flight records to connect two waypoints. These paths are generated by selection of the center path corresponding to the highest Bayesian probability. While the K-means algorithm-based straight-line method generated paths that led to UAV collisions, the proposed method generates paths that allow UAVs to avoid obstacles.

A Study on Improvement of Roll Autopilot System (가로축 자동비행시스템 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Chong-Sup;Koh, Gi-Oak;Ji, Chang-Ho;Cho, In-Je;Lee, Dong-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.43 no.8
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    • pp.706-711
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    • 2015
  • The fighter aircraft uses several different loading configurations for air-to-surface and air-to-air combat missions. To maintain wings-level flight with an asymmetric weapon configuration, a pilot controls a roll trim system. However, it is difficult to apply an accurate roll trim input for wings-level flight in the actual flight under disturbance. The inaccurate roll trim input degrades the performance of the roll autopilot system. In this paper, to solve this problem, an integrator was additionally designed in the command part of the roll autopilot system. The initial transient response was improved by scheduling the limiter to restrict the roll attitude error. As a result of the evaluation of the simulation for the designed flight control law, the roll attitude following performance was found to be improved in the autopilot system operation under the inaccurate roll trim condition.

Stability Analysis of Three-Loop Autopilot with respect to IMU Position and C.G Variation Rate in Guided Missiles (IMU 탑재 위치 및 유도탄 무게 중심 변화율에 따른 Three-Loop 조종 알고리듬 안정성 분석)

  • Kwon, Hyuck-Hoon;Kim, Yoon-Hwan;Park, Bong-Gyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.44 no.6
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    • pp.492-501
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    • 2016
  • Three-Loop autopilot is generally used for the acceleration control of guided missiles. Because the acceleration command to the three-loop autopilot is given as values at the center of gravity, feedback information of IMU should be obtained at the same position. However, the position of IMU might not be located at the center of gravity due to the sub-system assignment. This paper presents the stability analysis of three-loop autopilot with respect to the arbitrary position of IMU and variation rate of center of gravity. Gain and phase margins are calculated for several trim points for general anti-tank missiles.

A Singular Perturbation-like Method to Compensate the Effect of Fin Actuator Dynamics in Nonlinear Missile Control (비선형 미사일 제어에서의 핀 구동기 동역학 영향을 보상하는 새로운 유사특이섭동기법)

  • Hong, Jin-Woo;Yeom, Joon-Hyung;Song, Seong-Ho;Ha, In-Joong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.219-221
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    • 2006
  • The recently developed autopilot controller can make the input-output (I/O) dynamic characteristics of the nonlinear missile dynamics linear and independent of flight conditions. However, significant fin actuator dynamics can degenerate the I/O dynamic performance of the overall system. In this paper, we propose a singular perturbation-like method to compensate the effect of significant fin actuator dynamics in nonlinear missile control. The proposed compensation method does not require the time derivatives of fin angles but can maintain the linear I/O dynamic characteristics provided by the recently developed autopilot controller.

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The application of eigenstructure assignment to flight control system (비행제어계에 대한 고유구조 할당의 응용)

  • 박노웅;박정일;박종국
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1988.10a
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    • pp.603-607
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    • 1988
  • On this paper, the application of Eiganstructure assignment to flight control system design is presents. Both output feedback and constrained output feedback are considered. The computer implimentation of the algorithm is discussed including the utilization of real arithmetic for complex conjugate eigenvalue. And the example include a stability augementation system, an autopilot decoupled mode control.

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Parametric Optimization Procedure for Robust Flight Control System Design

  • Tunik, Anatol A.;Ryu, Hyeok;Lee, Hae-Chang
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.95-107
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    • 2001
  • This paper is devoted to the parameter optimization of unmanned aerial vehicle's (UAV) flight control laws. Optimization procedure is based on the ideas of mixed $H_2/H_{\infty}$ control of multi-model plants. By using this approach, some partial $H_2$-terms defining the performance of nominal and parametrically perturbed Flight Control System (FCS) responses to deterministic command signals in stochastic atmosphere as well as $H_{\infty}$-terms defining robustness of the FCS can be incorporated in the composite cost function. Special penalty function imposed on the location of closed-loop system's poles keeps the speed of response and oscillatory properties for both nominal and perturbed FCS in reasonable limits. That is the reason why this procedure may provide reasonable trade-off between the performance and robustness of FCS that are very important especially for UAV. Its practical importance is illustrated by case studies of lateral and longitudinal control of small UAV.

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Application of an Adaptive Autopilot Design and Stability Analysis to an Anti-Ship Missile

  • Han, Kwang-Ho;Sung, Jae-Min;Kim, Byoung-Soo
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.78-83
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    • 2011
  • Traditional autopilot design requires an accurate aerodynamic model and relies on a gain schedule to account for system nonlinearities. This paper presents the control architecture applied to a dynamic model inversion at a single flight condition with an on-line neural network (NN) in order to regulate errors caused by approximate inversion. This eliminates the need for an extensive design process and accurate aerodynamic data. The simulation results using a developed full nonlinear 6 degree of freedom model are presented. This paper also presents the stability evaluation for control systems to which NNs were applied. Although feedback can accommodate uncertainty to meet system performance specifications, uncertainty can also affect the stability of the control system. The importance of robustness has long been recognized and stability margins were developed to quantify it. However, the traditional stability margin techniques based on linear control theory can not be applied to control systems upon which a representative non-linear control method, such as NNs, has been applied. This paper presents an alternative stability margin technique for NNs applied to control systems based on the system responses to an inserted gain multiplier or time delay element.

Autopilot Design of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Using Robust Control

  • Jung, Keum-Young;Kim, In-Soo;Yang, Seung-Yun;Lee, Man-Hyung
    • Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.264-269
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, Η$_{\infty}$ depth and course controller of an AUV(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) using Η$_{\infty}$ servo control is proposed. The Η$_{\infty}$ servo problem is formulated to design the controllers satisfying a robust tracking property with modeling errors and disturbances. The solution of the Η$_{\infty}$ servo problem is as fellows: first, this problem is modified as an Η$_{\infty}$ control problem for the generalized plant that includes a reference input mode, and then a sub-optimal solution that satisfies a given performance criteria is calculated by LMI(Linear Matrix Inequality) approach. The Η$_{\infty}$ depth and course controller are designed to satisfy with the robust stability about the modeling error generated from the perturbation of the hydrodynamic coefficients and the robust tracking property under disturbances(wave force, wave moment, tide). The performances of the designed controllers are evaluated with computer simulations, and finally these simulation results show the usefulness and application of the proposed Η$_{\infty}$ depth and course control system.