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Full state control of a Fury X-Cell unmanned helicopter
Thesis (MScEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
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2009
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| author | Van Schalkwyk, Carlo |
| author2 | Milne, G. W. |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/2934 Full state control of a Fury X-Cell unmanned helicopter Van Schalkwyk, Carlo Milne, G. W. Jones, T. University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Engineering. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Theses -- Electrical and electronic engineering Dissertations -- Electrical and electronic engineering Helicopters -- Models Helicopters -- Models -- Radio control Helicopters -- Models Helicopters -- Control systems Drone aircraft ELectrical and Electronic Engineering Thesis (MScEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. This thesis describes the successful development of an autopilot for an unmanned radio controlled helicopter. It presents a non-linear helicopter model. An adaptive linearised model is derived and used to design a controller. The adaptive full state controller is tested in various ways, including two aerobatic manoeuvres. A number of analyses are performed on the controller, including its robustness to parameter changes, noisy estimates, wind and processing power. The controller is compared with a non-adaptive counterpart, which leads to the conception, design and analysis of a much improved control structure. Practical flight test results are presented and analysed. In some instances available literature was reworked and re-derived to produce a genericmodel-controller package that can easily be adapted for helicopters of any make, model and size. 2009-02-27T13:26:03Z 2010-06-01T09:01:56Z 2009-02-27T13:26:03Z 2010-06-01T09:01:56Z 2009-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2934 en University of Stellenbosch application/pdf Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| spellingShingle | Theses -- Electrical and electronic engineering Dissertations -- Electrical and electronic engineering Helicopters -- Models Helicopters -- Models -- Radio control Helicopters -- Models Helicopters -- Control systems Drone aircraft ELectrical and Electronic Engineering Van Schalkwyk, Carlo Full state control of a Fury X-Cell unmanned helicopter |
| title | Full state control of a Fury X-Cell unmanned helicopter |
| title_full | Full state control of a Fury X-Cell unmanned helicopter |
| title_fullStr | Full state control of a Fury X-Cell unmanned helicopter |
| title_full_unstemmed | Full state control of a Fury X-Cell unmanned helicopter |
| title_short | Full state control of a Fury X-Cell unmanned helicopter |
| title_sort | full state control of a fury x cell unmanned helicopter |
| topic | Theses -- Electrical and electronic engineering Dissertations -- Electrical and electronic engineering Helicopters -- Models Helicopters -- Models -- Radio control Helicopters -- Models Helicopters -- Control systems Drone aircraft ELectrical and Electronic Engineering |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2934 |
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