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LUO Jun
XIE Shaorong
GONG Zhenbang
RAO Jinjun
School of Mechatronics Engineering
and Automation,
Shanghai University,
Shanghai 200072, China
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PATH FOLLOWING GPS-BASED
CONTROL OF SMALL-SIZE
ROBOTIC UNMANNED BLIMP*
Abstract:
Robotic unmanned blimps own an enormous potential for applications in low-speed and low-altitude exploration, surveillance, and monitoring, as well as telecommunication relay platforms. To make lighter-than-air platform a robotic blimp with significant levels of autonomy, the decoupled longitude and latitude dynamic model is developed, and the hardware and software of the flight control system are designed and detailed. Flight control and navigation strategy and algorithms for waypoint flight problem are discussed. A result of flight experiment is also presented, which validates that the flight control system is applicable and initial machine intelligence of robotic blimp is achieved.
Key words:
Dynamics modeling Flight control Navigation Robotic unmanned blimp |