Design, Build and Test an Unmanned Air Vehicle

Trajectory Tracking Controller Design for an Unmanned Air Vehicle

This paper presents a complete trajectory tracking controller design for an Unmanned Air Vehicle using Linear Parameter Varying design methods. The longitudinal and lateral controllers are designed using an inner loop – outer loop structure with the inner loop LPV controller designed using μsynthesis. The inner-loop is then approximated with a reference model and the outer loop is designed usin...

Tracking and State Estimation of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle System Using an Unmanned Air Vehicle System

3 I proudly dedicate my life and this work to my wonderful wife Erica. Many trials, we both have suffered through this process. 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my father Donald Sr., my mother Janey, and my brother Matthew for their support through my many years of schooling.

Flight Test Result for the Ground-Based Radio Navigation System Sensor with an Unmanned Air Vehicle

The Ground-based Radio Navigation System (GRNS) is an alternative/backup navigation system based on time synchronized pseudolites. It has been studied for some years due to the potential vulnerability issue of satellite navigation systems (e.g., GPS or Galileo). In the framework of our study, a periodic pulsed sequence was used instead of the randomized pulse sequence recommended as the RTCM (r...

Tour Planning for an Unmanned Air Vehicle under Wind Conditions

Intelligent Unmanned Air Vehicle Flight Systems

This paper describes an intelligent autonomous airborne flight capability that is being used as a test bed for future technology development. The unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) fly under autonomous control of both an onboard computer and an autopilot. The onboard computer provides the mission control and runs the autonomous Intelligent Controller (IC) software while the autopilot controls the veh...