Development of flight planning and guidance systems for an autonomous aircraft of the UAV-EESC-USP team

• Grant number: 07/03804-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2007
• End date: November 30, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Aerospace Engineering - Flight Dynamics
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Morgado Belo
• Grantee: Mateus Moreira de Souza
• Host Institution: Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project consists of the study and development of a Flight Planning System and a Guidance System of of an independent aircraft, UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The Flight Planning System will have as entered waypoints that it desires that the aircraft covers and as exit generates the passage that this must make described in function of the flight maneuvers. And the Guidance System will have as entered given supplied for the navigation system to determine which command it must be applied so that the aircraft describes the passage generated for the Flight Planning System. This project, in set with more eight projects of EQUIPE UAV EESC USP, aims at the development of a UAV.