A Solar-Powered Hand-Launchable Uav For Low-Altitude Multi-Day Continuous Flight
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)(2015)
摘要
This paper presents the conceptual design, detailed development and flight testing of AtlantikSolar, a 5.6m-wingspan solar-powered Low-Altitude Long-Endurance (LALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) designed and built at ETH Zurich. The UAV is required to provide perpetual endurance at a geographic latitude of 45 degrees N in a 4-month window centered around June 21st. An improved conceptual design method is presented and applied to maximize the perpetual flight robustness with respect to local meteorological disturbances such as clouds or winds. Airframe, avionics hardware, state estimation and control method development for autonomous flight operations are described. Flight test results include a 12-hour flight relying solely on batteries to replicate night-flight conditions. In addition, we present flight results from Search-And-Rescue field trials where a camera and processing pod were mounted on the aircraft to create high-fidelity 3D-maps of a simulated disaster area.
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solar-powered hand-launchable UAV,low-altitude multiday continuous flight,conceptual design,flight testing,AtlantikSolar,low-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle,LALE,ETH Zurich,conceptual design method,perpetual flight robustness,local meteorological disturbances,clouds,winds,airframe,avionics hardware,state estimation,control method development,autonomous flight operations,night-flight conditions,search-and-rescue field trials,camera,processing pod,aircraft,high-fidelity 3D-maps,simulated disaster area
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