Numerical and Experimental Design Parameter Analysis of VTOL Airframe Control Elements

© 2020, Allerton Press, Inc. The paper describes the computational and experimental investigation in selecting the design parameters of control surfaces and characteristics of the lift engines of a VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle. The general structural scheme of equations to roll, pitch and yaw control and stabilization is analyzed. Results of numerical simulation of the point-to-point autonomous flight are given

Flocking Model for Autonomous Aircraft

© 2020, Allerton Press, Inc. Abstract: The paper considers a model is of collective motion of autonomous aircraft, which independently perform on-board control calculations, have no control from a single center, but use the information about the neighbor aircraft location. For the numerical simulation of flight for each autonomous aircraft, the equations of motion for a quadcopter are used

Estimation of Vertical Take-off Unmanned Aircraft Flight Characteristics and Algorithm of Required Roll Angle Calculating for Trajectory Tracking

Abstract: The paper proposes an algorithm for estimating the available and required power for the VTOL unmanned aircraft based on speed data obtained during acceleration of a plane in horizontal flight with the engine operating at maximum output power. We consider the scheme of refinement of navigation calculations for controlling the throttle of the fuel supply and elevator and lateral control of an unmanned aircraft during flight along a given route. The results of numerical simulation are presented