2019
Modeling and Control of a Passively-Coupled Tilt-Rotor Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft
Romain Chiappinelli, Mitchell Cohen, Martin Doff-Sotta, Meyer Nahon, James R. Forbes, Jacob Apkarian
ICRA 2019poster
This paper presents the modeling and control of a passively-coupled tilt-rotor vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The aircraft consists of a quadrotor frame attached to a fixed-wing aircraft by an unactuated hinged mechanism. The platform is capable of smooth transitions from hover to forward fl…