HIL investigations of extended UAV on-board controller

Abstract

The paper presents the testing process dedicated to the unmanned aerial vehicle flight controller. The quality of performance of stabilization and navigation tasks has been investigated not during standard in-flight tests, but in the hardware in the loop (HIL) simulation environment. The virtual flight was controlled by the real autopilot. The artificial flight parameters were generated and autopilot uses them as in real flight conditions. Such approach saves time and is economically justified, because of the lack of hardware losses during the failed flight tests