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Design of a Flight Stabilizer System and Automatic Control Using HIL Test Platform

Şeyma Akyürek 1, Gizem Sezin Özden 1, Emre Atlas 1, Coşku Kasnakoğlu 1, and Ünver Kaynak 2
1. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, TOBB University of Economics & Technology, Ankara, Turkey
2. Mechanical Engineering, TOBB University of Economics & Technology, Ankara, Turkey

Abstract—In this paper a Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) test platform is used to design a flight stabilization system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Controllers are first designed and tested separately for lateral and longitudinal axes using numerical simulations, and later these controllers are merged on the HIL platform. It is observed that the resulting controller successfully stabilizes the aircraft to achieve straight and level flight.

Index Terms—UAV, autopilot, PID controller, Hardware-In-the-Loop, flight control, SISO, MIMO

Cite: Şeyma Akyürek, Gizem Sezin Özden, Emre Atlas, Coşku Kasnakoğlu, and Ünver Kaynak, "Design of a Flight Stabilizer System and Automatic Control Using HIL Test Platform," International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 77-81, January 2016. DOI: 10.18178/ijmerr.5.1.77-81