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Donkels, Alexander and Voigt, Andreas E. (2019) Helicopter Formation Control Algorithm for Manned-Unmanned Teaming. In: Vertical Flight Society Annual Forum 75. Vertical Flight Society 75th Annual Forum, 2019-05-13 - 2019-05-16, Philadelphia, USA.
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Abstract
Manned-Unmanned Teaming is a future key ability for military and civil use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to increase mission performance. One teaming aspect is the close flight of two helicopters within a shared airspace organized as a mixed formation. The close formation flight creates high crew workload due to maintaining the formation and avoiding collisions lowering the team mission performance. The work presented in this paper approaches this problem and introduces two different formation control strategies implemented as formation controllers to automate the UAS for the formation flight. These formation controllers are able to reduce crew workload, to increase flight safety, and enabled the first coupling of a manned and an unmanned helicopter in a close formation flight during a real flight test campaign. This paper presents, besides flight test results, the design and implementation of the formation strategies and highlights the process of their development, tuning, and testing within a simulation framework. The simulation framework was also used to find suitable safety constraints for the formation controllers and the flight test.
| Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/127738/ | ||||||||||||
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| Document Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) | ||||||||||||
| Title: | Helicopter Formation Control Algorithm for Manned-Unmanned Teaming | ||||||||||||
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| Date: | May 2019 | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Vertical Flight Society Annual Forum 75 | ||||||||||||
| Refereed publication: | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||
| Gold Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||
| In SCOPUS: | No | ||||||||||||
| In ISI Web of Science: | No | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Keywords: | MUM-T, formation, flight, Formation, helicopter, Hubschrauber, unbemannt, teaming, unmanned, | ||||||||||||
| Event Title: | Vertical Flight Society 75th Annual Forum | ||||||||||||
| Event Location: | Philadelphia, USA | ||||||||||||
| Event Type: | international Conference | ||||||||||||
| Event Start Date: | 13 May 2019 | ||||||||||||
| Event End Date: | 16 May 2019 | ||||||||||||
| Organizer: | Vertical Flight Society | ||||||||||||
| HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | ||||||||||||
| HGF - Program: | Aeronautics | ||||||||||||
| HGF - Program Themes: | rotorcraft | ||||||||||||
| DLR - Research area: | Aeronautics | ||||||||||||
| DLR - Program: | L RR - Rotorcraft Research | ||||||||||||
| DLR - Research theme (Project): | L - The Smart Rotorcraft (old) | ||||||||||||
| Location: | Braunschweig | ||||||||||||
| Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Flight Systems > Unmanned Aircraft | ||||||||||||
| Deposited By: | Donkels, Alexander | ||||||||||||
| Deposited On: | 16 Sep 2019 15:45 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2024 20:31 |
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