Trajectory Optimization of Solar-Powered High-Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft
| Autor: | Birce Tezel, Jack Marriott, Nicolas E. Stier-Moses, Zhang Liu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0209 industrial biotechnology
Heading (navigation) business.industry Airspeed 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology Trajectory optimization High-Altitude Long Endurance Waypoint 020901 industrial engineering & automation Altitude 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Trajectory Environmental science Aerospace engineering business Energy (signal processing) |
| Zdroj: | 2020 6th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR). |
| DOI: | 10.1109/iccar49639.2020.9107998 |
| Popis: | Solar-powered aircraft can fly perpetually if they are able to fly a 24-hour mission in which they collect more energy than they expend. The energy collected is determined by the orientation and length of time that the aircraft's solar panels are exposed to the sun. The energy spent is determined by flight maneuvers such as changes in airspeed, altitude and heading. Therefore, a perpetual energy balance can be maintained when the aircraft flies along a trajectory that maximizes solar exposure and minimizes flight maneuvers. This paper presents a faster than real-time dynamic programming strategy that computes the optimal trajectory that contains a loitering aircraft inside a cylindrical volume placed about a reference waypoint. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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