Reproducing an Aircraft Flight

Tanuj Oruganti and Jonathan Hill

Abstract:	This paper outlines research into autopilot technology, where the current goal is to use a flight simulation package to reproduce the flight of an actual remote controlled aircraft. In this research, an embedded microprocessor collected sensor and control surface data from a SIG Kadet remote controlled aircraft. The sensors include a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and an inertial measurement unit. The microprocessor used was a soft-core processor in an FPGA. The acquisition and field adjustment was performed using a custom ‘C’ application. The flight reproduction involved processing and the use of an open source flight simulator. Using data in this way provides opportunities to study aircraft dynamics.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (2007) April 23 - 25, 2007 Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge, MA
Pages:	681 - 687
Cite this article:	Oruganti, Tanuj, Hill, Jonathan, "Reproducing an Aircraft Flight," Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (2007), Cambridge, MA, April 2007, pp. 681-687.
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