TY - GEN
T1 - Real-time monitoring of flight tests with a novel fixed-wing UAV by automatic flight guidance and control system engineers
AU - Kugler, Martin E.
AU - Seiferth, David
AU - Heller, Matthias
AU - Holzapfel, Florian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/6/13
Y1 - 2018/6/13
N2 - Advanced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) become increasingly popular inter alia as low-risk demonstration platforms for new aircraft-design concepts and technologies in aviation industry and research. Due to the experimental nature and complexity of such systems, flight tests regularly require the support of design engineers who monitor and assess the behavior and performance of the aircraft and its subsystems while it is in flight. At the Institute of Flight System Dynamics of the Technical University of Munich (TUM-FSD), the flight guidance and control system for the novel 'SAGITTA Demonstrator' UAV has been developed. It enables fully-automatic operation of the aircraft, which has been successfully demonstrated during the maiden flight campaign in July 2017. This paper presents the challenges of real-time monitoring of a fully-automatic UAV and explains how they were solved within the maiden-flight test campaign of the SAGITTA Demonstrator. The ground station setup and displays that were applied to supervise the flight guidance and control system are presented. Experiences gained during the flight tests are gathered and recommendations derived.
AB - Advanced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) become increasingly popular inter alia as low-risk demonstration platforms for new aircraft-design concepts and technologies in aviation industry and research. Due to the experimental nature and complexity of such systems, flight tests regularly require the support of design engineers who monitor and assess the behavior and performance of the aircraft and its subsystems while it is in flight. At the Institute of Flight System Dynamics of the Technical University of Munich (TUM-FSD), the flight guidance and control system for the novel 'SAGITTA Demonstrator' UAV has been developed. It enables fully-automatic operation of the aircraft, which has been successfully demonstrated during the maiden flight campaign in July 2017. This paper presents the challenges of real-time monitoring of a fully-automatic UAV and explains how they were solved within the maiden-flight test campaign of the SAGITTA Demonstrator. The ground station setup and displays that were applied to supervise the flight guidance and control system are presented. Experiences gained during the flight tests are gathered and recommendations derived.
KW - SAGITTA research demonstrator
KW - automatic flight guidance and control
KW - flight test
KW - human-machine-interface
KW - in-flight monitoring
KW - unmanned aerial vehicle
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049897542&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICCAR.2018.8384659
DO - 10.1109/ICCAR.2018.8384659
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049897542
T3 - Proceedings - 2018 4th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics, ICCAR 2018
SP - 141
EP - 146
BT - Proceedings - 2018 4th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics, ICCAR 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 4th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics, ICCAR 2018
Y2 - 20 April 2018 through 23 April 2018
ER -