LITERATURE STUDY ON DESIGNING CONTROL LAW FOR CONVENTIONAL FIXED-WING UAV USING CONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT CONTROL LAW APPROACH

Abstract

The significant differences between conventional fixed wing aircraft system and a fixed wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system are the sized and the number of sensors onboard each system. With this constraint, smaller UAV will have a simpler control law design compared to the complex control law of a conventional aircraft. This literature review is studied on the comparison between the available conventional aircraft with the current developed UAV in terms of their inputs, outputs, modelling method, flight modes, and control law design. Finding on the literature shows that it is possible to design a control law for UAV similar to conventional aircraft control law using current technology (sensor and microcontroller). However, there are critical requirement for the drift angle measurement module which needed to be developed first before the modelling and control law can be designed.