25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-6.7.4

CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN FOR AN AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTER USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION

B.- M. Min, H.- S. Shin, M.- J. Tahk
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Keywords: control system design, autonomous helicopter, nonlinear dynamics, particle swarm optimization (PSO), sequential quadratic programming (SQP)

The main objective of this paper is to design control system for an autonomous helicopter and optimize controller gains using Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. The performance of the helicopter control system designed in this paper is evaluated through the fully nonlinear simulation.

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