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Translated title of the contribution: Coordinating motion planning for towed cable system in UAV aerial recovery with unmatched envelope
  • Zikang Su
  • , Haitong Chen
  • , Chuntao Li*
  • , Zhuolin Xing
  • , Honglun Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Abstract

This paper proposes a motion planning method that coordinates mothership movement and cable winch control to stabilize the drogue of the towed cable system during fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)aerial recovery with unmatched envelope. A multi-link cable-drogue and mothership dynamics model under the airflow disturbances was first established. Two optimal drogue trajectory control problems subject to the physical limits of the mothership and cable were then formulated,considering dynamic constraints of the towed cable and mothership. Next,the hp adaptive Radau pseudospectral method was employed to convert the optimal trajectory control problems into nonlinear programming problems which were then solved by the nonlinear programming solver software SNOPT. Finally,three typical scenarios including mothership motion planning under a quiet atmosphere and constant wind,and coordinating motion planning of mothership movement and cable winch under constant wind were conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Numerical results show that the proposed method can well control the drogue trajectory subject to physical limits and wind disturbances.

Translated title of the contributionCoordinating motion planning for towed cable system in UAV aerial recovery with unmatched envelope
Original languageChinese (Traditional)
Article number327377
JournalHangkong Xuebao/Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica
Volume44
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 May 2023

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