Development of an Inertial Measurement Unit for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being deployed in a vast variety of military, civilian, industrial and agricultural applications. Dynamics modeling is an essential step towards designing autonomous controllers for UAV systems. The dynamics modeling on the other hand requires accurate records of the UAVs motion states during real flight tests, this is usually achieved using Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and other necessary sensors. This work introduces the purpose, the development and the calibration details of a special six degrees of freedom IMU. The unit is being used in verifying an online UAV dynamics model parameter estimation methodology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA538509

Entities

People

  • Angel Flores-abad
  • Brandi Herrera
  • Gerardo Martinez
  • Khaled S. Hatamleh
  • Ou Ma
  • Pu Xie

Organizations

  • New Mexico State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accelerometers
  • Angular Acceleration
  • Calibration
  • Communication Systems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Helicopters
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • New Mexico
  • Vehicles

Readers

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - UAVs