This paper proposes a new method for a three dimensional fuzzy model of pilot's performance for guarding a territory with a short-distance between two aircraft in an air combat task with a gun. A third-order nonlinear point mass vehicle model is considered for an aircraft's flight dynamics. The desired value of the velocity, the flight path and the heading angles are obtained from some derived ...

This paper details the initial design and planning of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implemented control system that will enable a path planner to interact with a MAVLink based flight computer. The design is aimed at small Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAV) under autonomous operation which are typically subject to constraints arising from limited on-board processing capabilities, power an...

In this paper, a flight path rate demand two loop autopilot in pitch plane called lateral autopilot is considered where the steady state gain of the autopilot system is non-unity .The present work is an attempt to achieve a unity steady state gain of the autopilot system which generates a flight path rate output for a flight path rate command. For this, a PI controller is introduced in the redu...

In this paper, the virtual flight simulation environment for open-source-based avionics test system design and implementation. This paper is proposing an integrated avionics test system for flight manipulation and simulation using the commercial simulation and development software tools such as X-Plane, LabView, and Google Earth. The proposed system is designed of seven parts of user flight con...

The use of autonomous air vehicles equipped with cameras for surveillance is a natural but challenging application of robotic technology. Unlike ground robots, aerial platforms have many more operating constraints and their dynamic response typically dictates the nature of their role in such an application. While rotary-winged platforms enable more diverse maneuver options than their fixed-wing...

In this paper a metroplex routing scheme with its entire flexible flight operation simulation system is presented. In order to implement the optimal metroplex routing algorithm, a network data structure is constructed based on navaids, fixes, waypoints and jet routes. The shortest path algorithm and minimum dynamic cost path algorithm are applied to calculate the optimal route in different scen...

A theoretical explanation for an immersed perspective flight path display is investigated in this current study. Past research suggests that the immersed perspective flight path display (" tunnel-in-the-sky ") can improve flight path tracking when compared to more conventional flight navigation instruments but at present the specific sources of this benefit have not adequately been explained. O...

The paper describes a control system for hypersonic vehicles that consists of an outerloop guidance layer and an inner-loop flight control layer. For the outer-loop, a Model Predictive Control approach is pursued to prescribe the desired bank angle and flight path angle commands so that the vehicle can follow the way points and avoid exclusion zones during its flight. For the inner-loop, a comb...

Mission scenarios beyond line of sight or with limited ground control station access require capabilities for autonomous safe navigation and necessitate a continuous extension of existing and potentially outdated information about obstacles. The presented approach is a novel synthesis of techniques for 3D environment perception and global path planning. A locally bounded sensor fusion approach ...