06.2 - Flight Dynamics and Control (UAV related)
HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE EVALUATION OF AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT FUNCTIONS
D. Pla Guerrero¹, A. Hegde¹, J. Wan, Flanders Make, Belgium; E. Allegaert¹, Y. Lemmens¹; ¹Siemens Digital Industries Software, Belgium
This paper presents a hardware-in-the-loop simulation framework for autonomous aerial vehicles to validate the performance of the flight controllers in realistic flight conditions. The framework makes use of the Siemens Simcenter software and was evaluated with a Pixhawk flight controller together with a visual simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm on a flight computer