自主空中加油飞行对接演示平台设计与实现

空中加油技术可以成倍增加战机的航程、留空时间、活动空间和有效载量,极大提高了战机的生存能力,增强航空兵的远程作战、快速反应和持续作战能力,而实现自主空中加油将大幅提高空中加油的快速性和稳定性.利用无人机搭建自主空中加油演示验证平台,将为相关算法的研究提供极大便利.文中设计了一套基于视觉的四旋翼自主空中加油演示系统,旨在模拟空中加油的真实环境,以验证视觉导航自主空中加油的可行性;搭建了一套硬件平台,实现各模块之间的通信;软件部分利用视觉解算出导航信息,并由PID算法求取飞行控制数据.实验结果表明,本平台各模块能够满足设计需求,实现了空中加油的飞行对接演示.

Design and implementation of a docking demonstration platform for autonomous aerial refueling

Aerial refueling technology can increase exponentially with the aircraft's range,loiter time,space and effective load,greatly improving the survivability of the fighter.Also,it can greatly enhance the capability of long range attack,rapid response and sustained combat.The implementation of autonomous aerial refueling will greatly enhance the speed and stability of air refueling.A demonstration platform for autonomous aerial refueling on the basis of unmanned aerial vehicle will provide great convenience for the researches of algorithms.In this paper,a set of quadrotor demonstration system for vision-based autonomous aerial refueling technology is designed.This demonstration system can simulate the real environment of aerial refueling and verify the feasibility of visual navigation for autonomous aerial refueling.A set of hardware platform is set up and the communication between the modules is realized.In the software part,the navigation information is calculated by visual solution,and the flight control data is obtained by the PID algorithm.The experimental results show that the modules of this platform can basically meet the design requirements,and can realize a relatively stable flight.