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Autonomous runway alignment of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles in landing phase

Pouya, S ; Sharif University of Technology | 2009

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/ICAS.2009.8
  3. Publisher: 2009
  4. Abstract:
  5. In this paper, the development of a controller for autonomous lateral alignment of fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with runway centerline in landing phase is presented. Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) is used in order to enable the vehicle to mimic the decision making procedure that a pilot follow in the same situation. Also, for longitudinal motion controller design for the UAV to follow a pre-defined trajectory, the pole-placement technique is used. It is assumed that the runway relative position and orientation are provided by a built in vision system and its associated image processing unit. The performance of the controller in the presence of the Gaussian noises is investigated by the 6DOF computer simulation for a known fixed-wing UAV. It is shown that the developed controller has an acceptable performance and can be considered as a generic option for the controller structure in autonomous vision-based landing phase of fixed-wing UAVs. © 2009 IEEE
  6. Keywords:
  7. Autonomous landing ; Unmnned aerial vehicle ; Autonomous landing ; Centerline ; Controller structures ; Decision making procedure ; Fuzzy logic control ; Gaussian noise ; Landing phase ; Lateral alignment ; Longitudinal motion ; Pole placement technique ; Relative positions ; Vision based ; Vision systems ; Alignment ; Fuzzy control ; Fuzzy logic ; Fuzzy sets ; Image processing ; Landing ; Remotely operated vehicles ; Supersonic aerodynamics ; Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) ; Vehicles ; Controllers
  8. Source: 5th International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, ICAS 2009, Valencia, 20 April 2009 through 25 April 2009 ; 2009 , Pages 208-213 ; 9780769535845 (ISBN)
  9. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4976605