Introduction: Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) have formed an integral component of the Irish healthcare system for past decade, yet factors leading its commencement, evolutions over this time, current model service delivery not been widely published. Aeromedical provision may vary significantly from country to and also regionally within countries. Health systems necessities, capaci...

Nowadays, high levels of agility, maneuverability and capability of operating in reduced visual environments and adverse weather conditions are the new trends of helicopter design. Helicopter flight control systems should make these performance requirements achievable by improving tracking performance and disturbance rejection capability. Robustness is one of the critical issues which must be c...

This paper describes the experiment for learning and investigation of the helicopter laboratory model static and dynamic characteristics. Helicopter model is not the free flying one, as it has the two degrees of freedom – up / down movement and rotation with respect to vertical axis of the main propeller. The two basic different kinds of experiments with the helicopter model are possible. In th...

This paper presents a control system design method for an autonomous helicopter using the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method. In this paper, the nonlinear dynamic model of a miniature helicopter is directly used to design a control system without linearization process. The nonlinear dynamics of model helicopter is represented by sixteen state variables including flapping dynamics, engine ...

Soldier-portable UAVs enhance combat situational awareness by providing an over-thehorizon surveillance platform. This advantage can be multiplied by using multiple microhelicopters (< 20 g, < 20 cm) that operate cooperatively to obtain synoptic vantage points. Cooperative control of multiple helicopters using theoretically justified control laws requires a mathematical model of micro-helicopte...

In this present work, the development of an avionics system for flight data collection of a Raptor 30 V2 is carried out. For the data acquisition both onground and onboard avionics systems are developed for testing of a small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) helicopter. The onboard avionics record the helicopter state outputs namely accelerations, angular rates and Euler angles, in real time...