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Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle design are closely related to
its autonomy, hence to the development of advanced controller technologies.
The AE-SCA Lab dedicates a considerable amount of its workforce to the
design and development of control systems (often understood as autopilots)
and its avionics hardware.
Recent Research Topics
- Mathematical Modeling of Various UAV Systems
- Mathematical
models of fixed-wing, helicopter, ducted fan, tilt-duct, quadrotor UAVs.
- Controller Design for UAVs
- As the autonomy of a UAV is strongly related to the controller design
the AE-SCA Lab focuses on the design of controllers for UAVs.
Controllers range from simple inner loop
stabilization to intelligent decision making. Particular focus is the
robustness, fault tolerant controllers, flight envelope limiting
controllers, and redundant controller reallocation.
- Hardware Integration
- Integrating flight
controller software with flight hardware is of particular interest. The
design of hardware is established in a system level and integrated with the
controllers described above. A recent project will enable the lab to
integrate the whole system into a flying platform and flight test our
designs.
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