Engine: the part of an aircraft that provides power to move the aircraft through the air.Cockpit: command and control unit of the aircraft.Propeller: two or more twisted blades that pull an airplane forward as they turn.Rudder: moving parts on the vertical stabilizer that turn (yaw) the aircraft left or right.Elevator: moving parts on the horizontal stabilizer of an aircraft that move up or down to make the aircraft climb or descend.Aileron: moving parts attached to the rear edge of an aircraft's wing that helps the aircraft to bank/turn/roll.Major functional units and technical parts of the aircraft needed to control the UAV, are discussed below: Fig 1: Airplane Parts (Basic Aircraft) 7 When sound is passed through a metallic bar, sound 2 T ECHNICAL D ETAILS 2.1 Airplane parts and function: In our case, we’ve used an important property of sound to navigate UAV that is, propagation of sound through the metallic body. SONAR (acronym for Sound Navigation And Ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigate, communicate with or detect other objects. In this study, we are going to present another technique of UAV flight control which is by using SONAR. LASER guiding technology is also used for long distance operation. to communicate with the autopilot board on aircraft.
#Flight control system for uav software
Ground control segment includes remote control receiver, data link, INS, flight planning application, flight analysis software etc. Generally, flight control mechanism of UAV uses space based global navigation satellite system (GNSS) or global positioning System (GPS) or inertial navigation system (INS) that provides location and time information. There are several ways of controlling the UAV. Other than this, UAVs are used in research and development, civil and commercial applications such as aerial photography, crop monitoring and spraying, coastline and sea-lane monitoring, pollution and land monitoring, surveillance for illegal imports, power line inspection, fire services and forestry fire detection etc. combat search and rescue, target and decoy, reconnaissance etc.). Their largest use is found in military applications (i.e. It uses aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift, can fly autonomously based on pre-programmed flight plans or more complex dynamic automation systems or be piloted remotely. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also known as unmanned aircraft system (UAS), remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) or unmanned aircraft, is a powered, aerial vehicle that does not carry a human operator on board. Vibration is propagated through the movement of atoms creating kinetic energy. Index Terms - Aircraft, Sound, Propagate, Signal, Flight, Frequency, SONAR, Transmitter, Microphone. Different functional units of the aircraft respond to the respective sound signal and convert sound energy into electrical form and accordingly perform the assigned operation by using it. After receiving the ground signal, different frequencies of sound are generated from the cockpit of the aircraft which then pass through the metallic body of vehicle. In this method, human operator transmits signal from ground station to the aircraft. This paper presents such a technique by using SONAR (Sound Navigation and Ranging). The research paper published by IJSER journal is about UAV Flight Control Using SONAR 1Ībstract - There are several flight control techniques of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).