TY - GEN
T1 - Use of flight simulation to complement flight testing of low-cost UAVs
AU - Johnson, Eric N.
AU - Fontaine, Sébastien
PY - 2001/12/1
Y1 - 2001/12/1
N2 - The use of flight simulation tools to reduce the risk and required amount of flight testing for complex aerospace systems is a well recognized benefit of these tools. However, some special challenges arise when one attempts to extrapolate these benefits to very low-cost Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight testing. These types of vehicles are characterized by a lack of payload capacity (and therefore limited in their capacity for additional flight test instrumentation or telemetry), limited baseline capabilities (processing, instrumentation, and telemetry), and by a lower marginal cost of added flight tests (less fuel, personnel, etc. is required per flight test, and a lower cost associated with a failure). In this paper, flight simulation architectures for system design and integration of low-cost UAVs are explored, and the development of a simulation tool for a low cost UAV described.
AB - The use of flight simulation tools to reduce the risk and required amount of flight testing for complex aerospace systems is a well recognized benefit of these tools. However, some special challenges arise when one attempts to extrapolate these benefits to very low-cost Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight testing. These types of vehicles are characterized by a lack of payload capacity (and therefore limited in their capacity for additional flight test instrumentation or telemetry), limited baseline capabilities (processing, instrumentation, and telemetry), and by a lower marginal cost of added flight tests (less fuel, personnel, etc. is required per flight test, and a lower cost associated with a failure). In this paper, flight simulation architectures for system design and integration of low-cost UAVs are explored, and the development of a simulation tool for a low cost UAV described.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:74549201991
SN - 9781563479458
T3 - AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit
BT - AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit
T2 - AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit 2001
Y2 - 6 August 2001 through 9 August 2001
ER -