Autonomous Landing System for a UAV

Abstract

This thesis is part of an ongoing research conducted at the Naval Post-graduate School to achieve the autonomous shipboard landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Two main problems are addressed in this thesis. The first is to establish communication between the UAV's ground station and the Autonomous Landing Flight Control Computer effectively. The second addresses the design and implementation of an autonomous landing controller using classical control techniques. Device drivers for the sensors and the communications protocol were developed in ANSI C. The overall system was implemented in a PC1O4 computer running a real-time operating system developed by The Math- works, Inc. Computer and hardware in the loop (HIL) simulation, as well as ground test results show the feasibility of the algorithm proposed here. Flight tests are scheduled to be performed in the near future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA422364

Entities

People

  • Mariano I. Lizarraga

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Communications Protocols
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Surfaces
  • Control Systems
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Device Drivers
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Ground Stations
  • Measurement
  • Operating Systems
  • Simulations
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems

Readers

  • Aerial Unmanned Vehicle Swarm Micro Periodontal Dentistry.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control