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Periodic Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles based on Differential Flatness

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Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are making increasingly long flights today with significantly longer mission times. This requires the UAVs to have longer endurance as well as have long range capabilities. With regards to this, many researchers have shown the non-optimality of the steady state flight of aircrafts and how periodic trajectories may benefit the cause. This work re-establishes the non-optimality of a steady state flight and proposes a sub-optimal periodic solution using the concept of differential flatness. An example of an Aerosonde UAV is used to illustrate the percentage improvement in cost of the periodic control solutions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 Annual American Control Conference, ACC 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2681-2686
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781538654286
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 9 2018
Event2018 Annual American Control Conference, ACC 2018 - Milwauke, United States
Duration: Jun 27 2018Jun 29 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the American Control Conference
Volume2018-June
ISSN (Print)0743-1619

Conference

Conference2018 Annual American Control Conference, ACC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMilwauke
Period06/27/1806/29/18

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