Modeling and simulation of a small-sized Tiltrotor UAV

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2012-10-01

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Çakıcı, Ferit
Leblebicioğlu, Mehmet Kemal

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are remotely piloted or self-piloted aircrafts that can carry cameras, sensors, communication equipment and other payloads. Tiltrotor UAVs provide a unique platform that fulfills the needs for ever-changing mission requirements, by combining the desired features of hovering like a helicopter and reaching high forward speeds like an airplane, which might be a force multiplier in the battlefield. In this paper, the conceptual design and aerodynamical model of a realizable small-sized Tiltrotor UAV are presented, and the linearized state-space models are obtained around the trim points for airplane, helicopter and conversion modes. Controllers are designed using tracking optimal control method and gain scheduling is employed to obtain a simulation for the whole flight envelope. An interactive software infrastructure is established for the design, analysis and simulation phases, based on the theoretical concepts. © 2011 The Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

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control, optimal tracking, optimization, Tiltrotor, UAV, control, optimal tracking, optimization, Tiltrotor, UAV

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84869814754&origin=inward
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102391

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Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation

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https://doi.org/10.1177/1548512911414951

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F. Çakıcı and M. K. Leblebicioğlu, “Modeling and simulation of a small-sized Tiltrotor UAV,” Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 335–345, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84869814754&origin=inward.