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5643 UAV SYSTEMS I

The course presents the fundamentals of modelling the dynamics of rotorcraft-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems taught in the Department of Aerospace Information Engineering Konkuk University, Korea. Upon finishing the course, the students are expected to have a good understanding of key dynamic characteristics of RUAVs. The course emphasizes the importance of an accurate yet simple enough model to be practical for control design and analysis

Course topics

  • Introduction to Rotorcraft-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: mission, operation and design specification
  • Dynamics of Rotorcraft-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Euler-Newton equations of motion
  • Forces and moments of helicopter: main rotor, tail rotor, vertical tail fin, horizontal tail
  • Trim conditions: Hover and Cruise
  • Linearization of equation of motion and principle of small perturbation
  • Methods for calculation of stability derivatives: stability derivatives during hover and cruise
  • Stability analysis of small scale helicopter
  • Classical control design: description of proportional derivative controller
  • Introduction to Modern control: Optimal control vs Algebraic Approach
  • Squared-Coefficient Diagram Method (s-CDM) for Hover Control
  • Aggressive maneuvering, hybrid approach to modelling and control
Downloads:
  1. Course syllabus pdf
  2. Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Technologies, International Symposium on Intelligent Unmanned System, ISIUS2008, Nanjing, China, October 15-18, 2008 pdf
  3. Optimal Tracking Controller Design for a Small Scale Helicopter, Journal of Bionic Engineering 4 (2007) 271-280 pdf
  4. First Principle Approach to Modeling of Small Scale Helicopter. International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned System, ICIUS, Bali, October 24-25, 2007 pdf
  5. An Algebraic Approach for the MIMO Control of Small Scale heli. International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned System, ICIUS, Bali, October 24-25, 2007 pdf
  6. Budiyono, A., Design and Development of Autonomous Uninhabited Air Vehicles at ITB: Challenges and Progress Status. Paper presented at the Aerospace Indonesia Meeting, Bandung, Indonesia 27 July 2005 pdf