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An improved dynamic model identification method for small unmanned helicopter

Jian Zhou (School of Electronics and Information, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China)
Shuyu Liu (School of Electronics and Information, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China)
Jian Lu (School of Electronics and Information, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China)
Xinyu Liu (School of Electronics and Information, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China)

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN: 0002-2667

Article publication date: 12 December 2023

Issue publication date: 6 February 2024

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to introduce an improved system identification method for small unmanned helicopters combining adaptive ant colony optimization algorithm and Levy’s method and to solve the problem of low model prediction accuracy caused by low-frequency domain curve fitting in the small unmanned helicopter frequency domain parameter identification method.

Design/methodology/approach

This method uses the Levy method to obtain the initial parameters of the fitting model, uses the global optimization characteristics of the adaptive ant colony algorithm and the advantages of avoiding the “premature” phenomenon to optimize the initial parameters and finally obtains a small unmanned helicopter through computational optimization Kinetic models under lateral channel and longitudinal channel.

Findings

The algorithm is verified by flight test data. The verification results show that the established dynamic model has high identification accuracy and can accurately reflect the dynamic characteristics of small unmanned helicopter flight.

Originality/value

This paper presents a novel and improved frequency domain identification method for small unmanned helicopters. Compared with the conventional method, this method improves the identification accuracy and reduces the identification error.

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Acknowledgements

Funding: The authors declare that no funds, grants or other support were received during the preparation of this manuscript.

Competing interests: The authors have no relevant financial or nonfinancial interests to disclose.

Ethics approval: Not applicable.

Data availability: The data sets generated during and analyzed during the current study are not publicly available due to for internal research of the research group but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Citation

Zhou, J., Liu, S., Lu, J. and Liu, X. (2024), "An improved dynamic model identification method for small unmanned helicopter", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 96 No. 1, pp. 175-183. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEAT-05-2023-0145

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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