Design of a Flight Stabilizer System for a Small Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using System Identification

Abstract Flight stabilizers for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide level flight and make the UAVs more reliable and operational. In this paper a system identification process is applied to flight data logs obtained from flight simulations and a stabilizer system is designed using the dynamical model obtained from system identification. Hardware-in-the-loop testing was also performed on the flight stabilizer system designed is also tested using a custom built moving platform in the pitch and roll axis with actual flight sensors.

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