Conference article

Simulation Environment for Development of Unmanned Helicopter Automatic Take-off and Landing on Ship Deck

Antonio Vitale
On-boar Systems and ATM Department, CIRA - Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Capua (CE), Italy

Davide Bianco
On-boar Systems and ATM Department, CIRA - Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Capua (CE), Italy

Gianluca Corraro
On-boar Systems and ATM Department, CIRA - Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Capua (CE), Italy

Angelo Martone
On-boar Systems and ATM Department, CIRA - Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Capua (CE), Italy

Federico Corraro
On-boar Systems and ATM Department, CIRA - Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Capua (CE), Italy

Alfredo Giuliano
Electrical and Avionics Systems Department, Finmeccanica - Helicopter Division, Cascina Costa (VA), Italy

Adriano Arcadipane
Electrical and Avionics Systems Department, Finmeccanica - Helicopter Division, Cascina Costa (VA), Italy

Download articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp17142228

Published in: Proceedings of The 9th EUROSIM Congress on Modelling and Simulation, EUROSIM 2016, The 57th SIMS Conference on Simulation and Modelling SIMS 2016

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 142:33, p. 228-234

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Published: 2018-12-19

ISBN: 978-91-7685-399-3

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

Helicopter take-off and landing operations on ship carrier are very hazardous and training intensive. Guidance, Navigation and Control algorithms can help pilots to face these tasks by significantly reducing the workload and improving safety level. Anyway, the design and verification of such algorithms require the availability of suitable simulation environments that shall be a trade-off between simplicity and accuracy. This paper presents the simulation models developed to support the design, pre-flight verification and validation of helicopter trajectory generation and tracking algorithms for automated take-off and landing on a frigate deck. The process for generation and testing of the code to be integrated into the real-time Software-In-the-Loop simulator is also described. Such fast time and real-time simulation environments contributed to reduce algorithms design time, risks and costs, by limiting the required flight test activities. Take-off and landing algorithms developed by using the proposed simulation environments were successfully demonstrated in flight.

Keywords

GNC, helicopter, sensor, ship, turbulence

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