ISBN 9783843941907

978-3-8439-4190-7, Reihe Luftfahrt

Martin Enno Kügler
Robust Automation of Take-off and Landing - Demonstrated on a Medium-Sized Unmanned Aircraft

303 Seiten, Dissertation Technische Universität München (2019), Hardcover, B5

Zusammenfassung / Abstract

Highly-automatic operation is desired for medium-sized unmanned aircraft. However, the state-of-the-art automatic control systems of large vehicles are not suitable for these. This thesis presents a robust automation methodology, with which the critical maneuvers of take-off and landing can still be performed automatically. The methodology is demonstrated by the design of an automatic take-off and landing system for the unmanned 150 kg aircraft SAGITTA Demonstrator. The successful fully-automatic maiden flight of this vehicle proves the maturity and robustness of the proposed methodology and the resulting system design.