This paper presents a survey of the autopilot systems for small or micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The objective is to provide a summary of the current commercial, open source and research autopilot systems for convenience of potential small UAV users. The UAV flight control basics are introduced first. The radio control system and autopilot control system are then explained from both th...

In this paper, a flight path rate demand two loop autopilot in pitch plane called lateral autopilot is considered where the steady state gain of the autopilot system is non-unity .The present work is an attempt to achieve a unity steady state gain of the autopilot system which generates a flight path rate output for a flight path rate command. For this, a PI controller is introduced in the redu...

ISSN 2277 5064 | © 2013 Bonfring Abstract--Complexity in autopilot logic design and confusion involved in its mode transition is one of the major reasons for the accidents in highly automated airliner. In this paper we present the usage of a recently proposed array logic based technique for designing the autopilot mode transition logic for a commercial aircraft in the lateral direction. This de...

Autopilot is a system designed to guide a vehicle without aid. Due to increase in flight hours and complexity of modern day flight it has become imperative to equip the aircrafts with autopilot. Thus reliability and consistency of an Autopilot system becomes a crucial role in a flight. But the increased complexity and demand for better accuracy has made the process of evaluating the autopilot f...

S. Mastrianni D. F. Bantz K. A. Beaty T. Chefalas S. Jalan G. Kar A. Kochut D. J. Lan L. O’Connell A. Sailer G. Wang Q. B. Wang D. G. Shea IT Autopilot is a flexible architecture to support the delivery of information technology (IT) systems management services. Complex services that involve several tools require integration between the tools and automated processes that can invoke multiple too...

Unmanned and autonomous systems require a great deal of human trust, especially in order to gain acceptance for high-risk mission applications. In the aerial domain, loss of vehicle control, crashing or leaving the safety of the designated range can present a hazard to human safety as well as property. This represents a key barrier in current safety review processes when considering an experime...

As the technological capabilities of automated systems have increased, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for traditionally exhausting and dangerous manned missions has become more feasible. The United States Army, Air Force, and Navy have released plans for the increased use of UAVs, but have only recently shown interest in the cyber security aspect of UAVs. As a result, current autopi...

Interception problems are often dealt with by separating guidance and autopilot design. Guidance law can be obtained using optimal control theory and autopilot design is performed on a linearized system. In this paper, we introduce a new approach that determines a global guidance and autopilot law, based on direct output feedback design. Application of this method to exoatmospheric interception...

this paper presents a gain scheduled autopilot for pitch channel of a flying vehicle. the selected method is based on polynomial fuzzy systems. the method does not involve linearization about operating point. first the polynomial fuzzy model of pitch channel of the flight body is derived. next, using polynomial fuzzy system methodology the controller is design such that the outputs of the nonli...