Especially in urban environments where space is closely confined, VTOL vehicles used for Urban Air Mobility will need to be controlled with respect to ground in the horizontal plane in order to comply with path restrictions set by fixed obstacles. This work presents a control scheme in the horizontal plane that allows a pilot to command ground-based velocities with respect to the vehicle heading and inherently coordinates the turn whenever a change of heading is commanded. The turn coordination algorithm is adapted based on the flight state of the vehicle in order to compensate for the varying influence of wind. It is shown that the adaption improves the control performance during turning flight.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 Welsch_2021
%A Welsch, Marc
%A Fichter, Walter
%B AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum
%D 2021
%I American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
%K 2021 ifr myown
%R 10.2514/6.2021-0255
%T Ground-Based Turn Coordination for VTOL Vehicles with Wind Compensation
%U https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-0255
%X Especially in urban environments where space is closely confined, VTOL vehicles used for Urban Air Mobility will need to be controlled with respect to ground in the horizontal plane in order to comply with path restrictions set by fixed obstacles. This work presents a control scheme in the horizontal plane that allows a pilot to command ground-based velocities with respect to the vehicle heading and inherently coordinates the turn whenever a change of heading is commanded. The turn coordination algorithm is adapted based on the flight state of the vehicle in order to compensate for the varying influence of wind. It is shown that the adaption improves the control performance during turning flight.
@inproceedings{Welsch_2021,
abstract = {Especially in urban environments where space is closely confined, VTOL vehicles used for Urban Air Mobility will need to be controlled with respect to ground in the horizontal plane in order to comply with path restrictions set by fixed obstacles. This work presents a control scheme in the horizontal plane that allows a pilot to command ground-based velocities with respect to the vehicle heading and inherently coordinates the turn whenever a change of heading is commanded. The turn coordination algorithm is adapted based on the flight state of the vehicle in order to compensate for the varying influence of wind. It is shown that the adaption improves the control performance during turning flight.},
added-at = {2021-02-01T11:48:17.000+0100},
author = {Welsch, Marc and Fichter, Walter},
biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/257ba89b34be61e6ec0fac1d5978a1be9/marcwelsch},
booktitle = {{AIAA} Scitech 2021 Forum},
doi = {10.2514/6.2021-0255},
eventdate = {11–15 & 19–21 January 2021},
eventtitle = {AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum},
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intrahash = {57ba89b34be61e6ec0fac1d5978a1be9},
keywords = {2021 ifr myown},
month = jan,
publisher = {American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics},
timestamp = {2021-02-01T10:48:17.000+0100},
title = {Ground-Based Turn Coordination for {VTOL} Vehicles with Wind Compensation},
url = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-0255},
venue = {Virtual},
year = 2021
}
