Convertible aircraft have nowadays two challenges: proposing robust controllers and platform design. In the last few years several convertible aircraft prototypes have emerged. There is a discussion out there about which is the best possible convertible aircraft configuration. Among them the most popular are tilt-rotors, tail-sitters and tilt-wing.
In this thesis we propose to construct a prototype consisting of 5 rotors, 4 of them oriented as a conventional quadrotor and one of them oriented for providing horizontal thrust. The transition maneuver is achieved by means of an intelligent system responsible to turn on and off the 5 rotors depending on system states and aerodynamics.
The abilities that the student will learn during this thesis are:
The thesis is developed in collaborations with PhD, master and undergraduate students who are Lapyr LAB members.
Project started in 2016.
Alejandro Flores
Fixed-wing aircraft; quadrotor drones; autopilots; altitude sensor; GPS; inertial navigation system; monocular camera; RTK precision GPS. All materials are available at the LAB.
FORDECYT project under grant 000000000292399.