For the purposes of development of a small and autonomously operated airship, a need to create a model of its propelling and motion has arisen. Being described within this paper, the model defines the requirements that are imposed to motors, propellers and the airship's controlling system. The model is based on a typical design of a small airship, that consists of two main propellers, being pla...

We are interested in blimps. A blimp is a small airship that has no metal framework and collapses when deflated. In this paper, dynamic modeling of autonomous blimps is presented, using the Newton-Euler approach. This study discusses the motion in 6 degrees of freedom since 6 independent coordinates are necessary to determine the position and orientation of this vehicle. Key-words : Autonomous ...

In this paper, a design of counter-rotating propeller (CRP) for stratospheric airship in low Reynolds number is tested in experiment for the first time. In consideration of stratosphere environment, a two-bladed counter-rotating propeller is designed for stratospheric airship. With the similarity theory of Reynolds number and advanced ratio, the experiment is conducted in low Reynolds number wi...

This paper describes a proposal on a construction of a power supply module that is intended to be implemented in a small airship. Because the bearing capacity of the airship is limited, simple and efficient voltage converters must be employed. The paper provides a description of a proposal on mutual timing of these converters that leads to eliminating of the interferences caused by the currents...

In this paper, we study the influence of an original airship design on its stability modes. Based verified model YEZ-2A airship, Sobol sensitivities are calculated to filter parameters. The hull length, slenderness ratio hull, exponent tail, fin installation position and half-span found be large influences all modes, whereas modes comparatively insensitive bow relative thickness. empirical form...

Constrained by the satellites orbits, Satellite Remote Sensing is difficult to achieve timeliness requirements. General aerial manned aircraft Remote Sensing is always delayed by the bad weather. Compared with Unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned Airship can fly more lower and slower and you can get more clearer image. So it is more suitable for large scale mapping and other engineering requireme...

Project AURORA aims at the development of an unmanned airship capable of autonomous flight over user-defined locations for aerial inspection and imagery acquisition. In this article the authors report a successful autonomous flight achieved through a set of pre-defined points, one of the first of its kind in the literature. The guidance control strategy is based on a path tracking error generat...