A Flight Envelope Determination and Protection System for Fixed-Wing UAVs

Georgios Zogopoulos-Papaliakos; Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos

ICRA 2020poster6 citations

A Flight Envelope Determination and Protection System for Fixed-Wing UAVs

Georgios Zogopoulos-Papaliakos, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos

Abstract

In this work we present a novel, approximate, efficient algorithm for determining the Trim Flight Envelope of a fixed-wing UAV, based on a generic, nonlinear numerical model. The resulting Flight Envelope is expressed as a convex intersection of half-spaces. Subsequently, a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) is designed which takes into account the Flight Envelope constraints, to avoid Loss-of-Control. The overall system is shown to operate in real-time in a simulation environment.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{icra2020_aflightenveloped,
  title = {A Flight Envelope Determination and Protection System for Fixed-Wing UAVs},
  author = {Georgios Zogopoulos-Papaliakos and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos},
  booktitle = {ICRA 2020},
  year = {2020}
}