Development of a Remote Digital Augmentation System and Application to a Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle. Technical Report NASA Technical Note TN D-7941, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Edwards, John W. and Deets, Dwain A. (1975) Development of a Remote Digital Augmentation System and Application to a Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle. Technical Report NASA Technical Note TN D-7941, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
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Abstract
A cost-effective approach to flight testing advanced control concepts with remotely piloted vehicles is described. The approach utilizes a ground-based digital computer coupled to the remotely piloted vehicle's motion sensors and control surface actuators through telemetry links to provide high bandwidth feedback control. The application of the system to the control of an unmanned 3/8-scale model of the F-15 airplane is described. The model was flown by a ground-based pilot from the remotely piloted research vehicle facility at the NASA Flight Research Center. The model was remotely augmented: that is, the F-15 mechanical and control augmentation flight control systems were simulated by the ground-based computer, rather than being in the vehicle itself. The results of flight tests of the model at high angles of attack are discussed.
| EPrint Type: | Other |
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| Keywords: | Control systems, Digital flight control, Remotely piloted vehicle |
| Subjects: | Aircraft/Project: RPRV (01 - 09) Aeronautics: (05) Aircraft Design, Testing And Performance Aircraft/Project: F-15 |
| ID Code: | 715 |
| Deposited On: | 15 Febuary 2006 |
| Additional Information: | 54 pages. A condensed version of this report was presented at the AIAA RPV Technology Symposium in Tucson, Ariz., November 12-14, 1974, and printed as NASA TM X-56029. |
