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Thrust-Based Flight Stabilization and Guidance for Autonomous Airships

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The problem of three-axis stabilization and beam-tracking guidance of a thrust-controlled airship without thrust vectoring is analyzed. A comparison is carried out throughout the work, introducing at first stabilityaugmentation and guidance controllers for an existing reference airship, featuring traditional aerodynamic surfaces for control. Then a four-thrusters airship with no aerodynamic controls is presented, and flight controllers for this platform are designed and implemented. The performance of both airships in autonomous flight is assessed in a realistic non-linear dynamics simulator, showing interesting tradeoffs of the two configurations in complex virtual scenarios, in still air or steady wind conditions.

Source: Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha)

DOI: 10.13009/eucass2023-025

Authors: CARLO E.D. RIBOLDI, ALBERTO ROLANDO

Language: English

Topic: Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems

Subfield: Aerospace Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6940909230

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