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An Instrumentation System Applied To Formation Flight. Kiriti Rambhatla Thayalan Selvam Kelvin Ratnayake Viveknanthan Suganthan. References.
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An Instrumentation System Applied To Formation Flight Kiriti Rambhatla Thayalan Selvam Kelvin Ratnayake Viveknanthan Suganthan
References • 1) I.D Hummel, “The use of aircraft wakes to achieve power reductions in formation flight”, presented at the advisory group of Aerospace Research & Development. • 2)D.F Chichka and JL Speyer, “Solar-powered, formation-enhanced aerial vehicle systems for sustained endurance”,in Proc.Amer.Contr.Conf. • 3) R.J Ray , B.R. Cobleigh, M.J. Vachon,and C.J St, Flight test techniques used to evaluate performance benefits during formation flight, NASA Dryden research centre. • 4)www.nasa.gov • 5)www.site.uottawa.ca/~misbah/elg4392/index.html
Ground Based Systems • Previously the information from the formation flight would reach ground based instruments and then to the flights back again . • This lead to a number of accidents and failures in formations flights , hence NASA came up with an Instrumentation System called the Formation Flight Instrumentation System (FFIS). • FFIS makes use of GPS , Extended Kalman filter and an interface .
Extended KALMAN FILTER • The Kalman Filter is a recursive filter which estimates the state of a dynamic system from a series of incomplete and noisy measurements. • In this project an extended KALMAN filter is used along with GPS( FFIS) to eliminate the need for ground based systems information flight. • We used MATLAB to simulate the results for the filter to estimate position, velocity and attitude of the next aircraft.
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