Software- and hardware-in-the-loop verification of flight dynamics model and flight control simulation of a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle
Document Type
Conference Paper
Journal/Book Title/Conference
2015 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS)
Publisher
IEEE
Location
Cancun, Mexico
Publication Date
11-23-2016
Abstract
Unmanned aerial system (UAS) use is ever-increasing. In this paper, it is shown that even with low-cost hardware and open-source software, simple numerical testing practices (software- and hardware-in-the-loop) can prove the accuracy and usefulness of an aeronautical flight model, as well as provide valuable pre-flight testing of many situations typically only encountered in flight: high winds, hardware failure, etc. Software and hardware simulation results are compared with actual flight testing results to show that these modeling and testing techniques are accurate and provide a useful testing platform for a small unmanned aerial vehicle. Source code used in simulation is open and provided to the community.
Recommended Citation
Coopmans, Calvin; Podhradsky, Michal; and Hoffer, Nathan, "Software- and hardware-in-the-loop verification of flight dynamics model and flight control simulation of a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle" (2016). AggieAir Presentations. Paper 50.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aggieair_pres/50
