This paper considers the path following of unmanned helicopters based on dynamic optimization. We assume that the helicopter is equipped with a flight control system which provides an approximation of its closed-loop dynamics. The task at hand is to derive inputs for this flight control system in order to track a geometrically specified path. A concise problem formulation and a discussion of an...

The gimbal stabilization mechanism system is used to provide the stability to an object mounted on the gimbal by isolating it from the base angular motion and vibration. In this paper the model of one axis gimbal system with dynamics flying object is introduced. The gimbal torque relationships are obtained using Newton’s second law equation on the assumption that gimbal is rigid body. The syste...

This paper focuses on the design of an integrated navigation and guidance system for unmanned helicopters. The integrated navigation system comprises two systems: the Flight Path Planning System (FPPS) and the Flight Control System (FCS). The FPPS finds the shortest flight path by the A-Star (A*) algorithm in an adaptive manner for different flight conditions, and the FPPS can add a forbidden z...

Stochastic integration with respect to a Wiener process in Banach spaces have been considered by several authors (Brzeźniak [5], Dettweiler [13], Neidhart [22] and Van Neerven, Veraar and Weiss [30]). Similarly, stochastic integration with respect to Lévy processes in Banach spaces is of increasing interest. So, these articles [2, 3, 7, 15, 24, 25] are devoted to this topic. Nevertheless, in th...

Cockpit displays that enhance situational awareness in light aircraft are becoming feasible through the rapid development of enabling technologies including differential GPS, inexpensive computers, and ruggedized color LCD panels. A prototype glass cockpit system was developed and used to explore implementation and operational issues through flight testing. The display provided an “out the wind...

In this paper, a simple, non-sensitive, robust, and accurate computational procedure is presented and it does not require a prior knowledge of a reference trajectory for computing the optimum trajectory for minimum-time-toclimb to a prescribed final altitude of a supersonic aircraft. From the program, we fnst generate the possible range of initial Mach numbers, initial altitudes and climb times...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path planning is divided into off-line static path planning and real-time dynamic path planning. The former one is applied to the ideal situation that the terrain has been clear, and there is no unexpected situation in flight. Actually, however, the flight situation is very complex, we have to adopt real-time path planning based on off-line static path planning. To...