Development of a Dynamic Model of a Ducted Fan VTOL UAV

Improving Control System Effectiveness for Ducted Fan Vtol Uavs Operating in Crosswinds

A valuable new resource being developed for today’s soldier are small ducted fan VTOL UAVs. Although beneficial in many ways, a major operational problem of ducted fan vehicles is precise control when flying in crosswinds and turbulent conditions in general. There are two significant, inherent issues associated with ducted fan control in crosswinds; 1) lateral momentum drag and 2) a duct stabil...

Hybrid Propulsion System Design of a VTOL Tailsitter UAV

Tailsitter UAVs with their combined vertical take off and landing (VTOL) and fixed-wing aircraft with full flightspeed regime capability provides a distinct alternative to rotary-wing and ducted fan UAVs (OAVs). ITU-BYU Tailsitter concept aims to obtain the energy efficient regimes across the VTOL and the cruising flight regimes. This paper describes the hybrid propulsion system design approach...

A Fault Tolerant, Data Fusion System for Navigation Applications to a Ducted Fan Vtol Uav

Identification of UAV Engine Parameters

The design of low-cost and efficient configurations of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) becomes increasingly more important for improving the performances, flight characteristics, and increase of a payload. Ability of vertical take-off and landing is a challenging but important task for the UAV to achieve a high level of autonomy. The fundamental requirement for vertical take-off or landing is the...

Nonlinear attitude and gyroscope's bias estimation for a VTOL UAV

This paper addresses the problem of attitude and heading restitution for a VTOL UAV. We describe an observation strategy to restitute the complete attitude matrix of the vehicle starting from Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and magnetometers. This study is a part of the development of the ducted fan UAV designed by Bertin Technologies. First, a measured orientation matrix is calculated from bot...