Abstract
This paper presents development of a quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV (Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) which is composed of four rotors and a fixed wing. The conventional VTOL UAVs have a drawback in the accuracy of the attitude control in stationary hovering because they were developed based on a fixed-wing aircraft and they used the control surfaces, such as aileron, elevator, and rudder for the attitude control. To overcome such a drawback, we developed a quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV. The quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV realizes high accuracy in the attitude control with four rotors like a quad rotor helicopter and achieves level flight like a fixed-wing airplane. The remarkable characteristic of the developed quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV is that it does not use any control surfaces even in the level flight. This paper shows the design concept of the developed UAV and experimental verification of all flight modes including hovering, transition flight and level flight.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation |
| Pages | 317-322 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2013 - Karlsruhe, Germany Duration: 2013 May 6 → 2013 May 10 |
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| Other | 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2013 |
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| Country | Germany |
| City | Karlsruhe |
| Period | 13/5/6 → 13/5/10 |
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- Software
- Artificial Intelligence
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Development of a quad rotor tail-sitter VTOL UAV without control surfaces and experimental verification. / Oosedo, Atsushi; Abiko, Satoko; Konno, Atsushi; Koizumi, Takuya; Furui, Tatuya; Uchiyama, Masaru.
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2013. p. 317-322 6630594.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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