24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-7.3.2

LATERAL AUTOPILOT DESIGN FOR A UAV USING COEFFICIENT DIAGRAM METHOD

R. Hirokawa, K. Sato
Mitsubishi Electric Kamakura Works, Japan

Keywords: flight control systems, unmanned air vehicles, coefficient diagram method

The lateral autopilot of an UAV is designed using Coefficient Diagram Method (CDM). The CDM is an algebraic control system design approach and the design is performed by the coefficient diagram drawing the coefficient of system characteristic polynomial.

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