25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-1.1.3

DEVELOPMENT AND FLIGHT TESTING OF AN AUTONOMOUS PARAFOIL-LOAD SYSTEM DEMONSTRATOR

T. Jann
DLR, Germany

Keywords: parafoil, GNC, autonomous landing, flight testing

Two instrumented parafoil-load systems were developed and flight-tested by the Institute of Flight Systems of DLR. With a simple and robust GNC algorithm, flight tests demonstrated the capabilty of landing autonomously less than 50 m from the predefined target point.

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