Modeling of the Skywalker X8 Fixed-Wing UAV: Flight Tests and System Identification
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2022Metadata
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10.1109/ICUAS54217.2022.9836104Abstract
This paper proposes a combination of wind-tunnel tests and flight experiments to find an aerodynamic model of the Skywalker X8 airframe. The static coefficients resulting from wind-tunnel tests are augmented with a parsimonious damping model that we find by using flight test data and a sequentially thresholded least squares algorithm. Experimental results show significant improvements to the pre-existing baseline model.