Transitional flight simulations for a tilted quadrotor with a fixed-wing

Yoshikazu Nakamura; Atsushi Arakawa; Keigo Watanabe; Isaku Nagai

doi:10.1109/ICMA.2018.8484666

Transitional flight simulations for a tilted quadrotor with a fixed-wing

Yoshikazu Nakamura, Atsushi Arakawa, Keigo Watanabe, Isaku Nagai

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Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) attract attention as applications such as information gathering and goods transportation in the event of a disaster. A UAV with tiltable rotors have been developed especially for achieving both vertical takeoff and landing and high speed flight. In this research, it aims to develop a quadrotor equipped with four tilt-rotors and a fixed-wing. In this paper, we first describe the overview of the airframe dealt with in this research. Next, we explain the transition flight to move from a hovering to a level flight. After that, a PD controller for the transition flight is designed, it is verified by simulations that the airframe can perform a transition flight.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2018
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1829-1836
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538660720
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2018.8484666
Publication status	Published - Oct 5 2018
Event	15th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2018 - Changchun, China Duration: Aug 5 2018 → Aug 8 2018

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Other	15th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2018
Country/Territory	China
City	Changchun
Period	8/5/18 → 8/8/18

Keywords

Fixed-wing
Quadrotor
Tilt-rotor
UAV

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biomedical Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Control and Optimization

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Transitional flight simulations for a tilted quadrotor with a fixed-wing. / Nakamura, Yoshikazu; Arakawa, Atsushi; Watanabe, Keigo ; Nagai, Isaku.

Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. p. 1829-1836 8484666.

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Nakamura, Y, Arakawa, A, Watanabe, K & Nagai, I 2018, Transitional flight simulations for a tilted quadrotor with a fixed-wing. in Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2018., 8484666, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1829-1836, 15th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2018, Changchun, China, 8/5/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2018.8484666

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