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Realization of an High-Speed Flight Experimental Setup based on a Tether
Aerodynamic effects on a quadrotor become more prominent with higher velocities. This project aims at setting up high-speed experiments for quadrotors using a tether and collect data to model and control the aerodynamic effects precisely.
Keywords: MAV quadrotor control aerodynamic drag model tether experimental setup
Quadrotors are great vehicles for fast and agile maneuvers and new control hardware and software allows to exploit such fast flying situations. Generally, the modelling of such quadrotors ignores aerodynamic effects or simplifies them, but there are also more complex models that can compensate for such effects. This project would aim at a setup where a quadrotor is fixed to a point with a tether and flies fast circles at the limit of this tether (like in https://youtu.be/iJPy1geXu4M).This way, the centrifugal forces are captured by the tether and the quadrotor thrust can fully be used for acceleration and fast flight. This setup is capable of high speed flights in a confined environment and could be used to identify aerodynamic model parameters at high velocities, resulting in better precision and simple data gathering.
Quadrotors are great vehicles for fast and agile maneuvers and new control hardware and software allows to exploit such fast flying situations. Generally, the modelling of such quadrotors ignores aerodynamic effects or simplifies them, but there are also more complex models that can compensate for such effects. This project would aim at a setup where a quadrotor is fixed to a point with a tether and flies fast circles at the limit of this tether (like in https://youtu.be/iJPy1geXu4M).This way, the centrifugal forces are captured by the tether and the quadrotor thrust can fully be used for acceleration and fast flight. This setup is capable of high speed flights in a confined environment and could be used to identify aerodynamic model parameters at high velocities, resulting in better precision and simple data gathering.
- Some mechanical work building the tether setup.
- Implementing a controller to fly the tethered cirlces.
- Identify an approximation of the aerodynamic model and the parameters.
- Some mechanical work building the tether setup. - Implementing a controller to fly the tethered cirlces. - Identify an approximation of the aerodynamic model and the parameters.