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Abstract
Unmanned Air Systems are increasingly prevalent in the defence and civil sectors and there is a desire to increase their eectiveness and versatility by adding the capability to perform air-to-air refuelling. Existing work on automated air-to-air refuelling focuses on leader/follower architectures, which do not fully exploit all available control authority. Developments in active drogue control make this premise equally applicable to probe-drogue and boom-receptacle refuelling. This paper presents a survey of control architectures which may be used to couple systems and improve capture eectiveness or operational envelope, then follows with an initial implementation of two architectures. A virtual structure method is applied to a boom-receptacle system, and a MIMO approach is trialled on a two-aircraft
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Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference |
Place of Publication | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
Publisher | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA) |
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Publication status | Published - 13 Aug 2012 |
Event | AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference - , United Kingdom Duration: 13 Aug 2012 → 16 Aug 2012 |
Conference
Conference | AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
Period | 13/08/12 → 16/08/12 |
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AAAR: ASTRAEA II Autonomous Air-to-Air Refuelling
Bullock, S. (Researcher), Richardson, T. S. (Principal Investigator), Bhandari, U. (Researcher), Thomas, P. R. (Researcher) & du Bois, J. L. (Researcher)
1/07/10 → 30/06/13
Project: Research