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Free flight rotorcraft flight test vehicle technology development
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Walker, Gregory W. Hodges, W. Todd |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Description | A rotary wing, unmanned air vehicle (UAV) is being developed as a research tool at the NASA Langley Research Center by the U.S. Army and NASA. This development program is intended to provide the rotorcraft research community an intermediate step between rotorcraft wind tunnel testing and full scale manned flight testing. The technologies under development for this vehicle are: adaptive electronic flight control systems incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, small-light weight sophisticated sensors, advanced telepresence-telerobotics systems and rotary wing UAV operational procedures. This paper briefly describes the system's requirements and the techniques used to integrate the various technologies to meet these requirements. The paper also discusses the status of the development effort. In addition to the original aeromechanics research mission, the technology development effort has generated a great deal of interest in the UAV community for related spin-off applications, as briefly described at the end of the paper. In some cases the technologies under development in the free flight program are critical to the ability to perform some applications. |
| File Size | 852710 |
| Page Count | 12 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19960024355 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6vx58x6q |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1994-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aircraft Design, Testing And Performance Electronic Control Flight Tests Teleoperators Free Flight Flight Test Vehicles Flight Control Adaptive Control Technology Transfer Wind Tunnel Tests Mission Planning Man Machine Systems Rotary Wing Aircraft Artificial Intelligence Telerobotics Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
