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Development Of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform: Modeling, Simulating, And Flight Testing, Nidal M. Jodeh
Development Of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform: Modeling, Simulating, And Flight Testing, Nidal M. Jodeh
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The Advanced Navigation Technology (ANT) Center at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) conducts extensive research in advanced guidance, navigation, and control to exploit the full potential of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The research in this thesis describes a UAV research platform developed to support the ANT Center's goals. This platform is now the bedrock for UAV simulation and local flight test at AFIT. The research has three major components. The first component is development of a physical, inertial, and aerodynamic model representing an existing aircraft. A systematic analysis of the airframe leads to a complete geometric, inertial, …