Attitude Control of Flapping-Wing Air Vehicles

Flapping-Wing Air Vehicles (FWAV) are autonomously flying vehicles that use their flapping wings to simultaneously stay aloft and enable controllable flight. FWAVs that are capable of controllable flight are reported in literature, though a theoretical background of the aerodynamic performance of different attitude control mechanisms is absent...

Fault Tolerant Control of Multirotor UAV for Piloted Outdoor Flight

The thesis aims to develop a Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) architecture, for the case of a damaged actuator for a multirotor that can be applied across multirotor platforms based on their Attainable Virtual Control Set (AVCS). The research is aimed to study the AVCS and identify the parameters that limit the controllability of multirotor UAV post...

Design of the European Lunar Penetrator (ELUPE) Descent Module Controller

To obtain unambiguous ground truth of water-ice residing in permanently shaded regions of the Moon and to characterise the local regolith, ESA considers a mission involving an instrumented penetrator implanted there by high-speed impact. Released into lunar orbit, the European Lunar Penetrator (ELUPE) Descent Module will autonomously traverse a...

SPS-2: Attitude Control System Design for the Science Mode

Spacecraft attitude refers to the orientation of the spacecraft body axes with respect to the inertial reference frame. Attitude determination and control is the estimation of the current orientation of a satellite and controlling or changing it on demand to reach a desired orientation. The SPS-2 Attitude Control System consists of four modes:...