Hierarchical Flight Control System for Tilt-Rotor Drones

Authors

  • Nickolay Zosimovych Aerospace Department, National Aviation University NAU/Professor, Kyiv, Ukraine Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47363/JEAST/2024(6)245

Keywords:

Tilt-Rotor Drone (TRD), Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL), Control, Vehicle Control Language (VCL), Vision, Strategy, Inertial Navigation System (INS), Global Positioning System (GPS)

Abstract

This paper presents a hierarchical flight control system for tilt-rotor drones. The offered approach performs high-level mission goals by gradually confirming them into machine-level instructions. The learned data from numerous sensors is spread backside to the greater levels for sensitive decision making. Each vertical take-off and landing drone is linked through regular wireless communication rules for accessible multi-agent facility. The proposed flight control system has been effectively employed on several small tilt-rotor drones and validated in some applications. Solutions from waypoint navigation, a probabilistic chase-evasion competition and vision-based object chasing show the capability of the recommended method for intelligent flying drones.

Author Biography

  • Nickolay Zosimovych, Aerospace Department, National Aviation University NAU/Professor, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Nickolay Zosimovych, Aerospace Department, National Aviation University NAU/Professor, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Published

2024-05-29