Control of a Pneumatically Actuated Drone
Conference Year
2024
Abstract
Two test beds were designed, implemented, built, and tested in-house at UVM with the goal of testing the feasibility of a pneumatically actuated drone in an atmosphere-lacking environment. One test bed focuses on translation and the other on attitude control. Additionally, bang-bang control algorithms were developed for controlling translation and attitude in the test beds. As a result, these tests showed, as expected, that controllers taking into consideration the dynamics of the system outperformed those that do not.
Primary Faculty Mentor Name
Luis Duffaut Espinosa
Status
Graduate
Student College
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Program/Major
Mechanical Engineering
Primary Research Category
Engineering and Math Science
Control of a Pneumatically Actuated Drone
Two test beds were designed, implemented, built, and tested in-house at UVM with the goal of testing the feasibility of a pneumatically actuated drone in an atmosphere-lacking environment. One test bed focuses on translation and the other on attitude control. Additionally, bang-bang control algorithms were developed for controlling translation and attitude in the test beds. As a result, these tests showed, as expected, that controllers taking into consideration the dynamics of the system outperformed those that do not.