293 results about "Fly control" patented technology

The invention discloses a flight control method and system for an electric power inspection unmanned aerial vehicle, and relates to the technical field of unmanned aerial vehicle inspection flight control. According to the flight control method of the electric power inspection unmanned aerial vehicle, the current flight position of the unmanned aerial vehicle is obtained in real time, deviation analysis is performed on the current flight position and a target inspection position, and when the deviation exceeds a preset threshold value, disturbance sensing data in a set area is further obtained and a disturbance sensing intensity index is calculated; according to a comparison result of the index and a disturbance attribution judgment threshold value, an offset cause is judged, and a corresponding disturbance response control strategy or a flight error correction strategy is executed respectively, so that the flight stability and the control precision of the electric power inspection unmanned aerial vehicle are dynamically guaranteed; according to the invention, through dual discrimination of the disturbance perception intensity index and the flight error adjustment index, external interference and flight control error causes are accurately distinguished, path offset cause identification and strategy matching are realized, and the flight stability and control precision of the electric power inspection unmanned aerial vehicle in a complex environment are improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of flight control, in particular to a hybrid control FPV unmanned aerial vehicle flight control system and method. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring triaxial angular velocity data of the unmanned aerial vehicle in real time by using an inertial navigation system, eliminating high-frequency noise and performing zero offset calibration; constructing a corresponding linear extended state observer to adjust a gain parameter in real time based on an absolute value of an observation error, and filtering tiny noise disturbance through a dead zone function to realize high-precision estimation of the system state and total disturbance of the unmanned aerial vehicle so as to obtain an error and an error change rate; and designing a self-adaptive PID control law to dynamically adjust PID control quantities corresponding to proportion, integral and differential gains, carrying out dynamic weighted stacking according to a flight mode, generating a three-axis control quantity, carrying out flight control on the FPV unmanned aerial vehicle, and meanwhile, realizing real-time visual verification of a control effect corresponding to the flight control. According to the invention, high-precision and high-robustness attitude control can be realized.

The invention discloses an unmanned autonomous cluster flight control method based on a bionic alert mechanism, which is applied to the field of unmanned autonomous cluster control, and is characterized in that a W-MSR algorithm and a dynamic weighted bionic alert mechanism are fused, the W-MSR filters and eliminates extreme values of neighbor individuals, the dynamic weighted bionic alert mechanism strengthens input from informed individuals, and the dynamic weighted bionic alert mechanism is used for improving the robustness of the unmanned autonomous cluster flight control. And meanwhile, the influence of suspicious individuals is inhibited, so that the local information aggregation degree is effectively improved, and group splitting can be prevented. Different from a scheme depending on explicit attacker recognition, the method can improve the motion accuracy and connectivity of the unmanned autonomous cluster in a confrontation environment by probabilistically suppressing the influence of suspicious individuals and amplifying a consistent signal, provides a new idea for improving the security of a swarm intelligence system, and has a wide application prospect. Damage of malicious individuals to the cluster is effectively defended, and robustness and recovery capability of the cluster in a complex environment are improved.

Disclosed here are unmanned aerial vehicle embodiments including some embodiments having a fuselage, tail, and wings including example embodiments with an adaptable payload section, alternatively or additionally, modular flight surfaces including tail, wings and motor, alternatively or additionally the vehicle configured for short landings with reversible thrust, alternatively or additionally, the unmanned aerial vehicle configured with direct connection to moveable flight control surfaces.

Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for flight control of aircrafts driven by electric propulsion systems and in other types of vehicles. In some embodiments, a system of an aircraft is disclosed, configured to determine one or more desired commands for the aircraft, retrieve engine information for at least one electric propulsion unit (EPU) of a plurality of EPUs of the aircraft, wherein the engine information includes at least one time-based metric for temperature associated with the at least one EPU, generates control commands based on the received engine information, and controls effectors according to the generated control commands to meet the desired commands of the aircraft.

The invention belongs to the technical field of flight control, particularly relates to a simulation control method and device for a control load system and a storage medium, and aims to solve the problem of limited effect during simulation control of the control load system in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring manipulation input data; carrying out filtering processing on the joystick force / torque data, and carrying out dynamic simulation on the control load system through a pre-constructed digital twin system based on the filtered joystick force / torque data and the control position data so as to determine a virtual force / torque track of the control load system for responding to the control input data; acquiring current flight parameters of the flight simulator, and resolving according to a preset aerodynamic model to obtain a reference force / torque trajectory; and taking the reference force / torque track as a control target, performing optimization solution on the virtual force / torque track, and determining an actuator driving instruction. According to the method, the effect is better when the control of the control load system is executed.

The invention discloses a bionic butterfly based on a flapping wing structure, and belongs to the field of flapping wing type aircrafts, a butterfly main body comprises a rack, two motors assembled with speed reduction groups, two couplings, two wings and two wing connecting pieces; the wing connecting piece comprises connecting parts and a transmission shaft which are connected with each other, and the two wings are respectively fixed on the two connecting parts; the rack is T-shaped, longitudinal mounting holes matched with a transmission shaft in shape are formed in the two ends of the transverse part of the rack, and semicircular fixing grooves matched with a motor in shape are formed in the two sides of the tail end of the longitudinal part of the rack; the two transmission shafts are respectively mounted in the two mounting holes; the two motors are respectively bonded in the two fixing grooves; one ends of the two couplings are connected with the output ends of the two speed reduction sets respectively, and the other ends of the two couplings are connected with the two transmission shafts respectively. The flapping wing type bionic butterfly provided by the invention is small in size and light in weight, and more efficient flapping wing driving and more stable flight control can be realized.

The invention provides a modular free-combination rotor unmanned aerial vehicle and a combination method, and the unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a plurality of independent rotor unmanned aerial vehicle units, and each rotor unmanned aerial vehicle unit comprises a fuselage and a rotor; a battery, a motor, a communication module and a power control module are arranged in the machine body; a standard socket is arranged outside the fuselage and used for being fixedly connected with other rotor wing unmanned aerial vehicle units or rods with the same interfaces, and sharing of power supply and communication is achieved through the standard socket. The power control module dynamically adjusts rotor power distribution in real time according to the form of the combined unmanned aerial vehicle, and the communication module automatically establishes a master-slave control relation after combination to achieve unified coordination of flight control. According to the technical scheme provided by the invention, through free combination of the modular rotor unmanned aerial vehicle units, a specific unmanned aerial vehicle can be quickly formed, the purchase and use cost is reduced, and the flight stability and safety are improved.

A method may include receiving, from a ground station and at an aircraft computing system onboard the aircraft, a definition of a primary route, the primary route representing a trajectory, for the aircraft, from an origin location to a destination location, causing the aircraft to autonomously traverse the primary route using a flight controller, the flight controller configured to automatically control a set of flight control surfaces of the aircraft, while autonomously traversing the primary route, receiving an input from an inceptor, automatically mapping a direction and magnitude of the input to a predetermined flight maneuver, computing a definition of a modified route, the modified route initiating the predetermined flight maneuver, validating the modified route, including determining whether the modified route intersects known obstacles, and in response to the validation succeeding, causing the aircraft to autonomously traverse the modified route using the flight controller.

The invention discloses an intelligent cleaning unmanned aerial vehicle for high-rise building curtain wall maintenance and a cleaning method of the intelligent cleaning unmanned aerial vehicle. The cleaning method comprises the steps that data such as wind speed, temperature and humidity are detected in real time through a sensor system, and a flight control unit dynamically adjusts the flight path and attitude according to the information. The image recognition technology is used for recognizing the stain type and distribution of the building curtain wall, generating a cleaning path and adjusting the working mode of the cleaning module. And the spraying and cleaning modes are automatically adjusted according to the types of stains. The intelligent calculation module monitors the cleaning effect in real time, and feedback information is used for adjusting cleaning parameters. Meanwhile, the flight control unit plans a flight path to ensure that obstacles outside the building are avoided; according to the intelligent cleaning unmanned aerial vehicle for high-rise building curtain wall maintenance and the cleaning method thereof, the defects in the prior art are overcome, the intelligent cleaning unmanned aerial vehicle has the advantages of being high in wind resistance, intelligent in cleaning, high in endurance and high in efficiency, and automatic cleaning of the high-rise building curtain wall is achieved.

Unmanned and remotely controlled airship constituted from system of multirotor combined with inflatable envelope. The airship may be lifted / powered by a power system comprising three or more rotors. In some embodiments, the airship may be constructed using rods, connectors, the main system / control box and the rotors. The airship system may have a systemic symmetry for weight distribution and flight control and may be, for example, a symmetric ellipsoid envelope / blimp.

The invention discloses a control method and system for automatic landing of a shipborne unmanned rotorcraft in a specified deck area, and belongs to the technical field of automatic control of unmanned rotorcrafts. The method comprises the following steps: step 1, planning an ideal landing line of the unmanned rotorcraft based on the position of the unmanned rotorcraft and the position of a ship deck; step 2, obtaining a position error of the rotor unmanned aerial vehicle based on the ideal landing line; step 3, predicting the operation attitude of the ship to obtain a ship attitude prediction result; and step 4, generating a predicted ideal landing line of the unmanned rotorcraft based on the ship attitude prediction result, and performing trajectory tracking flight control on the unmanned rotorcraft based on the position error of the unmanned rotorcraft to complete automatic landing of the unmanned rotorcraft in the specified deck area. According to the invention, the automatic landing task of the shipborne unmanned rotorcraft in the designated area on the ship can be realized.

An automated control system for a glider towed by a tug employs a sensor system (e.g., cameras mounted on at least one of the aircraft) to determine the relative position and velocity of the glider. A controller determines corrections to the flight characteristics of the glider in response to this data from the sensor system to maintain the glider on the surface of a limit sphere extending behind the tug with a predetermined radius based on the length of the tow cable. An interface to the flight controls of the glider maintains the desired flight characteristics of the glider provided by the controller.

A flight control system, including a flight control computer (FCC) configured for providing a first and second flight function, and sending, to effectors of an aircraft, first command signals based on the first and second flight functions, and a second computer configured for providing one or more autonomy functions associated with operation of the aircraft, and that are different from the first and second flight functions, monitoring operation of the FCC, determining whether the FCC has failed, and providing a fail-safe mode for at least the first flight function in response to determining that the FCC has failed. Providing the fail-safe mode includes providing one or more critical flight functions that includes the first flight function, and sending, to the effectors, second command signals that replace a first command signal associated with the first flight function and that are based on the critical flight functions.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle soft fence control method, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining personnel state information, generating environment risk distribution information based on the personnel state information, and carrying out the time alignment processing of the environment risk distribution information, so as to obtain the risk distribution information corresponding to the current moment of an unmanned aerial vehicle; acquiring a current flight state of the unmanned aerial vehicle, predicting a motion state of the unmanned aerial vehicle in a future period of time, and determining a risk assessment result according to the motion state and the risk distribution information; performing constraint processing on the operator control input according to the risk assessment result to generate a safety control instruction; inputting the safety control instruction into the flight controller to execute flight control, and triggering a safety protection strategy when the risk degree meets a preset condition; the unmanned aerial vehicle can be effectively prevented from entering a crowded or high-risk area, and the flight safety and controllability of the unmanned aerial vehicle in a complex personnel environment are improved.

The invention discloses a self-coupling PID (proportion integration differentiation) flight control method of a rudder-controlled transverse-row type rotor unmanned aerial vehicle based on dynamic multi-dimensional heterogeneous fuzzy logic, and belongs to the technical field of flight control of rudder-controlled transverse-row type rotor unmanned aerial vehicles. A flight control system architecture of the self-coupling PID flight control method is composed of three core modules: (1) a dynamic multi-dimensional fuzzy logic coupling PID controller (DMHFL-SCPID); (2) control instruction distribution; and (3) a six-degree-of-freedom dynamical model of the rudder-controlled transverse rotorcraft. According to the control algorithm, input and output dynamic parameters of a system are analyzed in real time, and four-dimensional flight control quantities (roll, pitch, yaw and height instructions) are generated. A control distribution strategy based on the aerodynamic characteristics of the rotor converts the instructions into actuating quantity of an actuating mechanism, and flight attitude adjustment is realized by changing aerodynamic load distribution of a rotor system, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle is guided to realize accurate tracking along a predetermined flight path.

An inceptor apparatus for an aircraft comprises a primary inceptor member provided in the form of a stick member having a grip portion, at which the stick member can be gripped by a pilot's hand, and a secondary inceptor member provided at an upper portion of the primary inceptor member and having an actuating portion, at which the secondary inceptor member can be manually actuated by a pilot's thumb. Both inceptor members have associated a respective sensor assembly which is provided to generate electronic flight control signals or commands in response to at least one of i) pivoting movements of the respective inceptor member around each of two independent maneuvering axes associated to the inceptor member, ii) forces acting on or via the respective inceptor member in pivoting directions with respect to each of the maneuvering axes, and iii) lateral flexing or bending of the respective inceptor member.

The invention discloses a high-speed level flight ten-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle. The high-speed level flight ten-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a flight control device, a fuselage frame, a plurality of rotor assemblies on the two sides of the fuselage frame and a tail thrust assembly. The motor bases of the rotor assemblies on the two sides have a certain inclination angle, and can drive the propellers to generate thrust in the vertical direction and the lateral direction when the propellers work. A tail thrust motor of the tail thrust assembly drives a tail thrust propeller to generate thrust. Through the design of the rotor wing assembly and the tail thrust assembly, rapid flight can be achieved, and forward flight of the fuselage under the horizontal state is kept; meanwhile, the unmanned aerial vehicle adopts a modular design, multiple unmanned aerial vehicles can be combined, and the carrying capacity is improved. In the control aspect, pitching, rolling, yawing, up-and-down movement and front-and-back movement of the unmanned aerial vehicle are controlled through different motor differential speeds based on a longitudinal eight-rotor structure, and height position and attitude control of the unmanned aerial vehicle can be achieved in combination with the PID control principle. Compared with a traditional unmanned aerial vehicle, the flight performance and the carrying capacity of the unmanned aerial vehicle are remarkably improved.

The invention provides a solid sounding rocket landing point control guidance method which comprises the following steps: calculating a geocentric angle between a rocket depletion point and a target landing point, the speed of the rocket depletion point and the to-be-increased speed of the target landing point of the rocket according to current real-time parameters of the rocket; taking the target drop point of the rocket as a constraint, and calculating a theoretical program angle of the rocket according to the depletion point speed of the rocket and the to-be-accelerated speed of the target drop point of the rocket; the actual pneumatic influence and the earth rotation influence are considered, the theoretical program angle of the rocket is corrected, and the actual program angle of the rocket is obtained; and the actual program angle is issued, and guidance calculation is completed. According to the method, the theoretical program angle is iteratively calculated in real time on the rocket computer to complete flight control of the rocket, it is guaranteed that the drop point precision meets the requirement, the problems that a traditional perturbation guidance method is large in calculation amount and poor in adaptability are solved, and high-precision and low-calculation-complexity real-time guidance is achieved.

The invention discloses a flight control method and system for a vertical take-off and landing tilting quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, and aims to solve the technical problem of poor time-varying adaptability of a control system in a nacelle tilting transition stage. According to the method, in a rotor wing flight mode and a nacelle tilting transition mode, attitude angle deviation, deviation change rate and flight speed of the unmanned aerial vehicle are obtained in real time, a fuzzy inference engine is adopted to dynamically output basic control quantity based on a predefined rule base, and a final control instruction is generated in combination with pneumatic feed-forward compensation quantity based on speed to drive a pneumatic control surface. According to the method, fuzzy intelligent decision making and feed-forward dynamic compensation are fused, the limitation that traditional control depends on an accurate model is broken through, the control precision and adaptability of a transition stage are remarkably improved, overshoot is effectively restrained, the adjusting time is shortened, the robustness of a system under model parameter changes and external interference is enhanced, and the system reliability is improved. And a reliable technical guarantee is provided for full-mode flight of the tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle.

The present disclosure relates generally to flight control of electric aircraft and other powered aerial vehicles. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: receiving a descent rate command from a pilot input device, determining a proximity of each propeller of at least two propellers to a vortex ring state; and controlling the aircraft's descent rate to be less than the commanded descent rate when at least one of the at least two propellers is within a first threshold proximity to the vortex ring state.

Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for flight control of aircraft driven by an electric propulsion system and in other types of vehicles. In some embodiments, an aircraft is disclosed, the aircraft comprising: at least one electric propulsion unit; at least one sensor configured to measure at least one aircraft condition; and at least one flight control computer configured to dynamically vary at least one torque command for the at least one electric propulsion unit based at least on the at least one aircraft condition; wherein the at least one electric propulsion unit is configured to generate thrust based on at least one dynamically changed torque command.

The application discloses a kind of based on hybrid power eVTOL unmanned aerial vehicle control method and related device, its method includes: flight control computer is based on flight control instruction obtains the flight phase that eVTOL unmanned aerial vehicle currently is in, the flight phase includes vertical take-off and landing phase, overdrive mode phase, cruise phase and emergency mode phase;The flight control computer indexes to the flight control strategy corresponding to the flight phase that eVTOL unmanned aerial vehicle currently is in;The flight control computer controls the turbine power generation system and / or the power battery pack based on the flight control strategy to N cruise electric drive unit and M vertical take-off electric drive unit on the eVTOL unmanned aerial vehicle Power supply processing.In the embodiment of the application, turbine power generation system and power battery pack are connected in parallel to supply power for eVTOL unmanned aerial vehicle, while combining redundancy flight control system, so as to achieve optimization in voyage expansion and safety performance improvement.

The application is a divisional application of the original application with the application number 2021108483611. The application discloses a waterproof unmanned aerial vehicle. The unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a shell and a second sealing partition. A flight control cavity is formed in the shell. The second sealing partition is arranged in the upper shell of the shell and arranged in the horizontal direction. The second sealing partition divides the flight control cavity into an upper sealing cavity and a lower sealing cavity. The upper sealing cavity is provided with an upper opening for mounting components. A detachable cover plate assembly is arranged at the upper opening. The cover plate assembly seals the upper opening. The internal cavity of the unmanned aerial vehicle is divided by the sealing partition. The sealing partition blocks the diffusion of water into the internal cavity of the unmanned aerial vehicle, avoids the problem that water enters one cavity and then enters other cavities, and seals the battery mounting port by the battery sealing cover to prevent water from flowing in from the battery mounting port.

A vertical takeoff and landing vehicle which includes an allocation block that receives a set of desired forces or desired moments and a health metric associated with at least one of: (1) a motor controller or (2) a rotor that operates in a vertical takeoff and landing mode at least some of the time. A command signal is determined per a first manner that attempts to satisfy both the set of desired forces or desired moments and the health metric. If the command signal is unable to be determined in the first manner, a second manner is used that prioritizes flight control associated with one or more of a roll axis or a pitch axis over flight control associated with a yaw axis where the axes are mutually orthogonal. The command signal is output to the motor controller that controls the rotor using the command signal.

The invention relates to an aircraft system for suppressing movement of a structural flight element. The aircraft system includes a movable aircraft structure, a power source, a controller, a resistor, and a first transistor connected in series to the resistor. When the power source of the aircraft provides power, the controller controls the first transistor to prevent current from flowing through a terminal of the first transistor and through the resistor. Further, when the power supply of the aircraft does not provide power, the first transistor allows a current generated by a back electromotive force (EMF) voltage generated by movement of the movable aircraft structure to flow through a terminal of the first transistor and through the resistor.

The invention discloses a multi-rotor aircraft with lift-enhanced wings, which comprises rotor power devices, a fuselage for mounting airborne equipment and connecting the rotor power devices, and a pair of independent and controllable lift-enhanced wings, the high-lift wings are mounted on the fuselage; when the multi-rotor aircraft with the high-lift wings flies, a flight control algorithm controls the tilting angles of the high-lift wings according to the attitude and the flight speed of the aircraft, so that the high-lift wings are in a proper attack angle state, and proper lift force can be provided for the aircraft. The flying speed can be increased, the cruising ability is improved, and transportation and storage are convenient.

The present application discloses a simulation method, system, and computer program product for simulating pilots of different skill levels flying along any landing route, belonging to the field of flight simulation technology, including: setting aircraft maneuverability constraints and environmental constraints; constructing a landing route; configuring controller parameters; using Gaussian random numbers to initialize the random perturbation link in the controller and set the initial state of the aircraft; using the controller to obtain a route tracking control signal; based on the route tracking control signal, using a kinematic model to update the aircraft state; judging the flight progress and switching routes to achieve kinematic simulation of pilots of different skill levels flying along any given ideal landing route. The method of the present application can provide a quantifiable method for pilot training in the aviation field, and provide efficient, accurate, and flexible data support close to real scenarios for flight control algorithm verification, and has important practical application value.

The invention discloses a wind pendulum and propeller device of a helicopter, belongs to the technical field of helicopter instrument production, and aims to solve the technical problems of torsion generated by rotation of a propeller, turning and flight power of the helicopter, flight control and the like by utilizing the wind pendulum and propeller device. According to the technical scheme, a propeller rotates anticlockwise to generate lift force, and the attack angle of blades is fixed; two groups of wind pendulums are mounted on a wind pendulum mounting frame below the propeller, are bilaterally symmetrical, are perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the fuselage and droop naturally; one end of the long connecting rod is connected with the piston rod; the hydraulic system is composed of two oil cylinders and an oil pipe, and a tail end piston rod is connected with a control handle rod. One handle rod controls the deflection direction and angle of one wind swing set through the hydraulic system and the long connecting rod. The device is suitable for flight power and flight control devices of helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles.