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A Test-Bed For Measuring Uas Servo Reliability, Abdelrahman Elsaid, Daniel Kwasi Adjekum, John Nordlie, Fatima El Jamiy
A Test-Bed For Measuring Uas Servo Reliability, Abdelrahman Elsaid, Daniel Kwasi Adjekum, John Nordlie, Fatima El Jamiy
Aviation Faculty Publications
Extant literature suggests minimal research on the reliability of Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components used in fabricating non-military Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). Stochastic failures of components during operational cycles over time poses a safety hazard to flight operations. The purpose of the study was to critically assess the operational performance standards (reliability) of a laboratory designed UAS component test-bed operated using real-world data collected from a Boeing Scan Eagle® UAS aileron servo unit via a flight data recorder. The study hypothesized that the test-bed’s reliability, in terms of a measured encoder output of commanded servo positions, will not be significantly …