Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 73 Issue 5
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Lateral/directional control for an autonomous, unmanned airship
José Raul Azinheira, Ely Carneiro de Paiva, José Reginaldo Hughes Carvalho, Josué Júnior Guimarães Ramos, Samuel Siqueira Bueno, Marcel Bergerman, Paulo Augusto Valente FerreiraProject AURORA aims at the development of an unmanned airship capable of autonomous flight over user‐defined locations for aerial inspection and imagery acquisition. Presents a…
Initial development of a multi‐fuel stepped piston engine for unmanned aircraft application
Peter HooperThe SPV580 stepped piston engine has been designed and developed for UAV application. The gasoline engine produces a minimum of 30kW at 5000 RPM, increasing to 35.4kW if exhaust…
Neuro‐fuzzy synthesis of flight control electrohydraulic servo
Ioan Ursu, Felicia Ursu, Lucian IorgaPresents a switching type neuro‐fuzzy control synthesis. The control algorithm supposes as a component part a neurocontrol designed to optimize a performance index. Whenever the…
Obstacle avoidance during aerial inspection of power lines
M. Williams, D.I. Jones, G.K. EarpGives an overview of a research programme that aims to apply machine vision for guiding a small, unmanned helicopter during inspection of overhead electrical distribution lines…
Short‐range, unmanned air vehicle system development at Cranfield
Robert Jones, David Dyer, Peter ThomassonIn the mid‐1990s Cranfield began work on a programme to develop a short‐range, unmanned air vehicle system for surveillance use. The basic aim of the work was to prove the…
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- Prof Phil Webb