TY - GEN
T1 - Control augmentation strategies for helicopters used as personal aerial vehicles in low-speed regime
AU - Gerboni, Carlo A.
AU - Venrooij, Joost
AU - Nieuwenhuizen, Frank M.
AU - Joos, Alexander
AU - Fichter, Walter
AU - Bülthoff, Heinrich H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In this paper an augmentation strategy is implemented with the goal of making the behavior of an actual helicopter similar to that of a new class of aerial systems called Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs). PAVs are meant to be own by flight-naïve pilots, i.e., pilots with minimal flight experience. One feature required for achieving this goal, is to have a Translation Rate Command (TRC) response type in the hover and low-speed regime. In this paper, a TRC response type is obtained for a UH-60 helicopter simulation model in hover and low-speed regime through the implementation of nonlinear back stepping control. The responses of the rotorcraft with TRC response type are evaluated with the metrics defined in the Aeronautical Design Standard ADS-33. E-PRF. Simulations show the efficiency of the control scheme in tracking the reference velocities and the achievement of the requirements to have level 1 Handling Qualities (HQ) for the TRC response type.
AB - In this paper an augmentation strategy is implemented with the goal of making the behavior of an actual helicopter similar to that of a new class of aerial systems called Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs). PAVs are meant to be own by flight-naïve pilots, i.e., pilots with minimal flight experience. One feature required for achieving this goal, is to have a Translation Rate Command (TRC) response type in the hover and low-speed regime. In this paper, a TRC response type is obtained for a UH-60 helicopter simulation model in hover and low-speed regime through the implementation of nonlinear back stepping control. The responses of the rotorcraft with TRC response type are evaluated with the metrics defined in the Aeronautical Design Standard ADS-33. E-PRF. Simulations show the efficiency of the control scheme in tracking the reference velocities and the achievement of the requirements to have level 1 Handling Qualities (HQ) for the TRC response type.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84957990809
SN - 9781624103872
T3 - AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference
BT - AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
T2 - AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, 2016
Y2 - 4 January 2016 through 8 January 2016
ER -