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| Author(s): |
Bruno Guedes Faria
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação |
| Defense date: | 2005-02-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Paulo Augusto Valente Ferreira;
Sergio Bittencourt Varella Gomes;
Basilio Ernesto de Almeida Milani
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| Advisor: | Paulo Augusto Valente Ferreira; Ely Carneiro de Paiva |
| Abstract | |
In recent years many research institutions and companies have been demonstrating a growing interest in the development of unmanned aerial vehicles with different autonomous operation levels in order to allow for the performance of many types of tasks. Within this context, CenPRA (Renato Archer Research Center) proposed the Project AURORA. Project AURORA (Autonomous Unmanned Remote Monitoring Robotic Airship) aims at the development of unmanned airships remotely operated with a view to the creation of an autonomous flight airship by the incorporation of increasing levels of autonomy. In order to increase the vehicle autonomy level, the development of a proportionally enhanced control and navigation systems is essential. It is extremely important to have a very accurate model of the physical airship system, given that this is the only way to design control laws for the vehicle and test them in simulation before performing actual flight tests. Moreover, an accurate model is essential to predict the vehicle behavior in simulation before any real flight demanding a new type of mission. The definition of identification methodologies for the AS800 airship system identification is the main scope of this work. Three methodologies were considered to allow the airship dynamic model identification: stationary identification, which identifies aerodynamic coefficients from stationary stabilized flight conditions; dynamic identification, which identifies these coefficients and the vehicle linear dynamics from the application of known inputs into the system; and, finally, through evolution strategies, which uses an evolutionary approach for the optimization of the aerodynamic coefficients of the dynamic model. All the methodologies were tested, validated and compared through simulation experiments by using the AS800 airship simulator of the Project AURORA (AU) | |