28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS2012-P1.4


UNMANNED MEASUREMENT PLATFORM FOR PARAGLIDERS

A. Nagy, J. Rohacs
Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Keywords: uav, paraglider, measurement, distributed control system, avionics

An implementation of a paraglider UAV is described. The platform can be used for several research fields, the weight of additional (measurement) equipment can be up to 15 kg. All subsystems and the results of the first flight tests are presented in the paper.


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