Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 83 Issue 6

Performance enhancement of real‐time computing for small unmanned helicopter autopilot

Nodir Kodirov, Doo‐Hyun Kim, Junyeong Kim, Seunghwa Song, Changjoo Moon

The purpose of this paper is to make performance improvements and timely critical execution enhancements for operational flight program (OFP). The OFP is core software of…

A TMO‐based flight program of an unmanned helicopter

Jungguk Kim, Agus Budiyono, Dong‐Min Kim, Ho‐Geun Song, Doo‐Hyun Kim

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new danger‐aware Operational Flight Program (OFP) for the unmanned helicopter's auto‐navigation based on the well‐known time‐triggered…

H∞ robust controller for autonomous helicopter hovering control

Ismaila B. Tijani, Rini Akmeliawati, Ari Legowo, Agus Budiyono, A.G. Abdul Muthalif

The purpose of this paper is to present the synthesis of a robust controller for autonomous small‐scale helicopter hovering control using extended H_∞ loop shaping design…

Model predictive control for autonomous unmanned helicopters

Endra Joelianto, Edwina Maryami Sumarjono, Agus Budiyono, Dini Retnaning Penggalih

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the feasibility of controlling a small‐scale helicopter by using the model predictive control (MPC) method.

Reactive collision avoidance of multiple realistic UAVs

Joel George Manathara, Debasish Ghose

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have a wide variety of applications such as surveillance and search. Many of these tasks are better executed by multiple UAVs acting as a group…

Obstacle avoidance for small UAVs using monocular vision

Jeong‐Oog Lee, Keun‐Hwan Lee, Sang‐Heon Park, Sung‐Gyu Im, Jungkeun Park

The purpose of this paper is to propose that the three‐dimensional information of obstacles should be identified to allow unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to detect and avoid…

Hardware‐in‐the‐loop simulation for visual target tracking of octorotor UAV

Bambang Rilanto Trilaksono, Ryan Triadhitama, Widyawardana Adiprawita, Artiko Wibowo, Anavatti Sreenatha

The purpose of this paper is to present the development of hardware‐in‐the‐loop simulation (HILS) for visual target tracking of an octorotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with…

Configuration design and optimisation study of a compound gyroplane

Ngoc Anh Vu, Young‐Jae Lee, Jae‐Woo Lee, Sangho Kim, In Jae Chung

The purpose of this paper is to study the conceptual design and optimisation of a compound gyroplane. A study of a compound gyroplane configuration and its characteristics was…

Editorial

Askin T. Isikveren