A rotary wing, unmanned air vehicle (UAV) is being developed as a research tool at the NASA Langley Research Center by the U.S. Army and NASA. This development program is intended to provide the rotorcraft research community an intermediate step between rotorcraft wind tunnel testing and full scale manned flight testing. The technologies under development for this vehicle are: adaptive electronic flight control systems incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, small-light weight sophisticated sensors, advanced telepresence-telerobotics systems and rotary wing UAV operational procedures. This paper briefly describes the system's requirements and the techniques used to integrate the various technologies to meet these requirements. The paper also discusses the status of the development effort.


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    Title :

    Free Flight Rotorcraft Flight Test Vehicle Technology Development


    Contributors:
    W. T. Hodges (author) / G. W. Walker (author)

    Publication date :

    1994


    Size :

    12 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English