TY - GEN
T1 - A solar-powered hand-launchable UAV for low-altitude multi-day continuous flight
AU - Oettershagen, Philipp
AU - Melzer, Amir
AU - Mantel, Thomas
AU - Rudin, Konrad
AU - Lotz, Rainer
AU - Siebenmann, Dieter
AU - Leutenegger, Stefan
AU - Alexis, Kostas
AU - Siegwart, Roland
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/6/29
Y1 - 2015/6/29
N2 - This paper presents the conceptual design, detailed development and flight testing of AtlantikSolar, a 5.6m-wingspan solar-powered Low-Altitude Long-Endurance (LALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) designed and built at ETH Zurich. The UAV is required to provide perpetual endurance at a geographic latitude of 45°N in a 4-month window centered around June 21st. An improved conceptual design method is presented and applied to maximize the perpetual flight robustness with respect to local meteorological disturbances such as clouds or winds. Airframe, avionics hardware, state estimation and control method development for autonomous flight operations are described. Flight test results include a 12-hour flight relying solely on batteries to replicate night-flight conditions. In addition, we present flight results from Search-And-Rescue field trials where a camera and processing pod were mounted on the aircraft to create high-fidelity 3D-maps of a simulated disaster area.
AB - This paper presents the conceptual design, detailed development and flight testing of AtlantikSolar, a 5.6m-wingspan solar-powered Low-Altitude Long-Endurance (LALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) designed and built at ETH Zurich. The UAV is required to provide perpetual endurance at a geographic latitude of 45°N in a 4-month window centered around June 21st. An improved conceptual design method is presented and applied to maximize the perpetual flight robustness with respect to local meteorological disturbances such as clouds or winds. Airframe, avionics hardware, state estimation and control method development for autonomous flight operations are described. Flight test results include a 12-hour flight relying solely on batteries to replicate night-flight conditions. In addition, we present flight results from Search-And-Rescue field trials where a camera and processing pod were mounted on the aircraft to create high-fidelity 3D-maps of a simulated disaster area.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84938242010
U2 - 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139756
DO - 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139756
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84938242010
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 3986
EP - 3993
BT - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2015
Y2 - 26 May 2015 through 30 May 2015
ER -