27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-6.1.1

VIRTUAL AUTOPILOT SYSTEM FOR HELICOPTERS UAV MISSIONS

J. M. Lema, P. Royo, E. Pastor, et al
Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain

Keywords: uas, rotorcraft, autopilot

Many autopilots are available in the market for UAVs. Selecting the right autopilot to integrate in a UAV is a difficult task because none of them is mutually compatible. This paper proposes a subsystem called Virtual Autopilot System designed to abstract the autopilot to the mission controller in a UAV.

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