Versatile, modular, extensible vtol aerial platform with autonomous flight mode transitions

Sinha, Pranay; Esden-Tempski, Piotr; Forrette, Christopher A.; Gibboney, Jeffrey K.; Horn, Greg

doi:10.1109/aero.2012.6187313

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“…Sinha et. al developed a quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV named Quadshot in 2012 [7]. Quadshot performed high dynamic maneuverability by use of a combination of differential thrust and two control surfaces, namely elevon.…”

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Development of a quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV without control surfaces and experimental verification

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Abiko

Konno

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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This paper presents development of a quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV (Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) which is composed of four rotors and a fixed wing. The conventional VTOL UAVs have a drawback in the accuracy of the attitude control in stationary hovering because they were developed based on a fixed-wing aircraft and they used the control surfaces, such as aileron, elevator, and rudder for the attitude control. To overcome such a drawback, we developed a quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV. The quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV realizes high accuracy in the attitude control with four rotors like a quad rotor helicopter and achieves level flight like a fixed-wing airplane. The remarkable characteristic of the developed quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV is that it does not use any control surfaces even in the level flight. This paper shows the design concept of the developed UAV and experimental verification of all flight modes including hovering, transition flight and level flight.

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Development of a quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV without control surfaces and experimental verification

Oosedo

Abiko

Konno

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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“…Nonetheless, it is possible to obtain certain capabilities of both of them by using the so-called convertible aircraft. There exist two main configurations of convertible aircraft: tilt-rotors [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and tail-sitter [6], [7], [8]. The tail-sitter transition maneuver is considerable more complex than tilt-rotors, since it is required that the complete UAV body tilt around one axis for achieving the transition maneuver, an ordered movement that carries the UAV from hover to cruise mode and vice versa, see Fig.…”

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A Simple Controller for the Transition Maneuver of a Tail-Sitter Drone

Flores

2018

2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

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This paper presents a controller for the transition maneuver of a tail-sitter drone. The tail-sitter model considers aerodynamic terms whereas the proposed controller considers the time-scale separation between drone attitude and position dynamics. The controller design is based on Lyapunov approach and linear saturation functions. Simulations experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the derived theoretical results.

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“…Design Methodology Review. There are many existing configurations of battery powered tailsitters, such as the Martian tailsitter [2] developed by the University of Surrey, the T-wing [5] and Bidule [6] developed by the University of Sydney, the ITU-Tailsitter [7] developed by Istanbul Technical University, the Japanese SkyEyeV [8], the ATOMS [9] developed by Delft University of Technology, and the Quadshot [10] developed by Transition Robotics. Within these vehicles, only the design methods and processes of T-wing, Surrey Martian tailsitter, and ITU-Tailsitter could be found by open literatures.…”

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Preliminary Design of a Small Unmanned Battery Powered Tailsitter

Wang

Hou

Liu

et al. 2016

International Journal of Aerospace Engineering

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This paper presents a preliminary design methodology for small unmanned battery powered tailsitters. Subsystem models, including takeoff weight, power and energy consumption models, and battery discharge model, were investigated, respectively. Feasible design space was given by simulation with mission and weight constraints, while the influences of wing loading and battery ratio were analyzed. Case study was carried out according to the design process, and the results were validated by previous designs. The design methodology can be used to determine key parameters and make necessary preparations for detailed design and vehicle realization of small battery powered tailsitters.

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Versatile, modular, extensible vtol aerial platform with autonomous flight mode transitions

Cited by 31 publications

References 7 publications

Development of a quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV without control surfaces and experimental verification

Development of a quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV without control surfaces and experimental verification

A Simple Controller for the Transition Maneuver of a Tail-Sitter Drone

Preliminary Design of a Small Unmanned Battery Powered Tailsitter

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