Keywords
aerial docking, UAV, unmanned aircraft
Abstract
This paper presents a new concept for aerial recovery of Micro Air Vehicles (ARMAVs) using a large mothership and a recovery drogue. The mothership drags a drogue attached to a cable and the drogue is controlled to match the flight patten of the MAV. This paper uses Gauss’s Principle to derive the dynamic model of the cable-drogue systems. A controllable drogue plays a key role in recovering MAVs in windy conditions. We develop a control approach for the drogue using its drag coefficient. Simulation results based on multilink cable-drogue systems present the feasibility of the aerial recovery concept and the controllability of the drogue.
Original Publication Citation
Sun, L., Beard, R., Colton, M., and McLain, T. Dynamics and Control of Cable-Drogue System in Aerial Recovery of Micro Air Vehicles Based on Gauss's Principle. Proceedings of the 2009 American Control Conference, pp. 4729-4734, June 2009, St. Louis, Missouri.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Sun, Liang; Beard, Randal W.; Colton, Mark B.; and McLain, Timothy W., "Dynamics and Control of Cable-Drogue System in Aerial Recovery of Micro Air Vehicles Based on Gauss's Principle" (2009). Faculty Publications. 1538.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1538
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2009-6
Permanent URL
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/3399
Publisher
IEEE
Language
English
College
Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Copyright Status
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