Abstract
The paper presents an automatic control system for autonomous airship. The system is designed to organize autonomous flight of the mini-airship performing flight mission defined from ground control station. Structure, hardware and software implementation of indoor autonomous airship and its navigation and control system as well as experiment results are described.
Highlights
Invented over 100 years ago, airships development is highly motivated in present days
Control of aerial vehicle indoor faces specific difficulties mainly related to organizing of indoor navigation
Our hardware and software organization of testing autonomous airship for indoor usage and its control system, navigation system, ground control station are described in this paper
Summary
Invented over 100 years ago, airships development is highly motivated in present days. Unlike fixed wind aircraft and helicopter, which spend about two- thirds of the engine thrust to maintain its weight in air, airships do not need to create the lift force. They can perform in long ranges with high-duration of non-stop flights. It results from appliance of smaller propulsion plants, consuming lower fuel and having lower exhaust emissions if it is engines and less electromagnetic pollution if it is electric motors. Control of aerial vehicle indoor faces specific difficulties mainly related to organizing of indoor navigation Used for this applications motion capture systems are too expensive and requires installation and configuration. Our hardware and software organization of testing autonomous airship for indoor usage and its control system, navigation system, ground control station are described in this paper
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