A Flight Envelope Determination and Protection System for Fixed-Wing UAVs
Georgios Zogopoulos-Papaliakos,Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos,Georgios Zogopoulos-Papaliakos,Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
In this work we present a novel, approximate, efficient algorithm for determining the Trim Flight Envelope of a fixed-wing UAV, based on a generic, nonlinear numerical model. The resulting Flight Envelope is expressed as a convex intersection of half-spaces. Subsequently, a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) is designed which takes into account the Flight Envelope constraints, to avoid Loss-of-Cont...
