Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721136261
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Book Synopsis GPS Auto-Navigation Design for Unmanned Air Vehicles by : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Download or read book GPS Auto-Navigation Design for Unmanned Air Vehicles written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GPS auto-navigation system is designed for Unmanned Air Vehicles. The objective is to enable the air vehicle to be used as a test-bed for novel flow control concepts. The navigation system uses pre-programmed GPS waypoints. The actual GPS position, heading, and velocity are collected by the flight computer, a PC104 system running in Real-Time Linux, and compared with the desired waypoint. The navigator then determines the necessity of a heading correction and outputs the correction in the form of a commanded bank angle, for a level coordinated turn, to the controller system. This controller system consists of 5 controller! (pitch rate PID, yaw damper, bank angle PID, velocity hold, and altitude hold) designed for a closed loop non-linear aircraft model with linear aerodynamic coefficients. The ability and accuracy of using GPS data, is validated by a GPS flight. The autopilots are also validated in flight. The autopilot unit flight validations show that the designed autopilots function as designed. The aircraft model, generated on Matlab SIMULINK is also enhanced by the flight data to accurately represent the actual aircraft. Nilsson, Caroline C. A. and Heinzen, Stearns N. and Hall, Charles E., Jr. and Chokani, Ndaona Langley Research Center NCC1-01008