Browsing by Subject "Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)"
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Adaptive control of unmanned aerial vehicles in atmospheric flight with reduced models
(2007)We propose an approximate implementation scheme for an adaptive linear quadratic control structure by employing a balanced truncation procedure in the loop prior to solving the associated Algebraic Riccati Equation (ARE). ...
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Advanced static soaring flight controls for input constrained aircraft
(2010)Control surface actuator nonlinearities are recognized as a source of significant problems in flight control system design and verification. Recently developed adaptive control design methodologies with anti-windup ...
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Aircraft dynamics with input rate constraints: An adaptive flight control application
(2009)Magnitude and rate limitations imposed on the input signal in control systems can be handled using antiwindup compensator design procedures with near-optimal system performance guarantees in case the system experiences ...
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Genetic algorithms for shortest path routing of autonomous gliders
(2008)Onboard power resources pose inevitable limitations on the flight performance of any aerial vehicle regardless of its type, size or mission. Popular soaring techniques recognized to be providing significant energy savings ...
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A heuristic search algorithm for maneuvering of UAVs across dense thermal areas
(2007)In order to ensure that an aircraft has the potential to meet the assigned performance requirements which are often mission specific, the particular aerodynamic demands involved must be taken into account during the aircraft ...
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Optimal flight trajectories through recursive thermal streets with uncertain climb rates
(2008)The flight performance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has recently been attempted to be optimized in various static soaring applications. The optimal flight paths can be generated for specific scenarios where the climb ...
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Optimal static soaring of UAVs using vehicle routing with time windows
(2007)Soaring, a biologically inspired technique recognized as a sport worldwide, has recently been investigated for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications. Satisfactory experimental results have been obtained in terms of ...
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A stochastic approach to optimal soaring problem and robust adaptive LQG control
(2007)The soaring performance of a glider Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) depends a great deal on the thermal characteristics including thermal strength and location. Onboard sensor measurements are typically corrupted by noise ...